From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 18 20:47:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C354A7 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:47:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from outbackdingo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f52.google.com (mail-oa0-f52.google.com [209.85.219.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4ECC1EC4 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id k18so3144426oag.39 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:47:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=B+etBW2K0ez59By8eRSaQ+0p9FAm0MOnd45mvESqA/E=; b=AahuhanJsxPtRbJeWogLPq8VBe9vWzBMjzhwFjxLizdfHaVP3Un+pVPqzEGhlalx0S AUmPtyF3VgHccrbRUeQCjyhgV5+bepkBdNKhOcVpYLsaxi+Nms+1gC/X1QnzrQVyf/k9 jfSc98cadkLcZyoisOBCSWUQycre2XR4yFZoNnq1TEHYcrS3g54qUg2tqjp4fpwBvHJE 5NGJCpxUkwhdJEDbOIFrnDGd1tTqW3vKNgCOeVThgWeh8sQLd//ywxSlIWInguqglxmy iaGCro5pwlS09njc19WEC6oDDa0IIIc2Y7ys5c45aGEp/B5oHxkcuWG0eIH7D8w1swlB D10g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.242.41 with SMTP id wn9mr1521277obc.12.1366318034099; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.135.194 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:47:14 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Disk Enclosure Zoning / gmultipath From: Outback Dingo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:47:20 -0000 Okay... 4U Disk Enclosure, has 2 physical compute nodes, each physical compute nodes has 2 LSI 9211-8i controllers, so thats 4 total controllers across 2 nodes the box is enclosure is zoned and FreeBSD can see the following nodeA 16 daX devices 16 sesX,passX devices NodeB 16 daX devices 16 sesX,passX devices there are 32 disks in the box, so the numbers are good, however each LSI card only has a total of 8 SATA drives assigned to it hence 4 x 8 = 32 drives....... for gmultipath and zfs shouldnt each controller see 32 drives? or 16 drives for HA basically im thinking the enclosure shouldnt be zoned at all so each LSI controller can see every SATA drive, with gmultipath in the mix, i should be able to label 32 devices, and have both nodes recognize them... correct??? or am I chasing the rabbit down the wrong hole?