Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:26:31 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Carl Makin <carl@xena.IPAustralia.gov.au> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Pathing to SCSI/FC devices. Message-ID: <v04220805b50a2d8f6b68@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003311036100.7326-100000@newton.aipo.gov.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003311036100.7326-100000@newton.aipo.gov.au>
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At 10:41 AM +1000 2000/3/31, Carl Makin wrote: > heh, the buzzword for this is "Dynamic Failover". :) In management > circles where the current focus is on 24x7, this is seen as a distinct > advantage. Okay, then I'd certainly like to have that. > "Dual Pathing" the buzzword for using both paths to the device would also > be desirable, but then you get into things like wanting to optimise data > paths depending on how busy each path is. Ahh, right. Basically you're talking about active/active load balancing. Yup, I'd like to have that, too. > No, sorry. I can't actually say what box we're buying yet since we > haven't signed the contract. :( You may be fortunate -- we were stupid enough to sign a three year lease on equipment we thought would do the job, but are now having some problems with. ;-( -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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