I do a lot of storage-related work, and often times need to grab WWPNs to zone hosts and to mask storage. To gather the WWPNs I would often times use the following script on my RHEL and CentOS servers: #!/bin/sh FC_PATH=”/sys/class/fc_host” for fc_adapter in `ls ${FC_PATH}` do echo “${FC_PATH}/${fc_adapter}:” NAME=$(awk ‘{print $1}’ ${FC_PATH}/${fc_adapter}/symbolic_name ) echo [...]
As most of my long term readers know I am a huge Solaris fan. How can’t you love an Operating System that comes with ZFS, DTrace, Zones, FMA and Network Virtualization amongst other things? I use Linux during my day job, and I’ve been hoping for quite some time that Oracle would port one or [...]
In a previous post I talked about my problems getting gluster to expand the number of replicas in a volume. While experimenting with the gluster utilities “add-brick” option I wanted to see if adding two more bricks would replicate the existing data across four bricks (two old, two new), or if the two new bricks [...]
I made another interesting discovery this weekend while playing around with the gluster volume deletion option. Prior to creating a volume with a new layout, I went through the documented process to remove my volume: $ gluster volume stop glustervol01 Stopping volume will make its data inaccessible. Do you want to continue? (y/n) y Stopping [...]
While playing around with gluster, I had an interesting finding about the way gluster handles replicated volumes. The gluster volume I am using for testing is a replicated volume with a replica factor of 2 (the replica factor determines how many copies of your data will be made). I wanted to add a third replica [...]
I came across an interesting discovery yesterday while working on a CentOS 6 gluster node. The node was virtualized inside vSphere 4.1 and needed some additional storage added to it. I went into the VI client and added a new disk while the server was running, expecting to have to reboot or
