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December 23rd, 2008 11:00

Questions regarding DM failover and iSCSI

Two questions:

1. If I manual failback a datamover what's the outage to iSCSI connected hosts (VMware)?

2. What's the best way to failback a DM? We fixed the problem that caused the initial failover. Currently the old DM shows sate of "Out of service". From the GUI do I reboot it first...do restore...Which steps? Thanks!

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December 23rd, 2008 12:00

VMware recommended values for VMs should be 60 seconds, i can't find the value for ESX iSCSI LUNs. Did you have problems with ESX when it initially failed over to standby datamover ? Did VMs handled it or crashed ?

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December 23rd, 2008 12:00

Disk timeout is set to default..30 seconds, maybe? Not in front of it to check but it's the VMware default.

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December 23rd, 2008 12:00

to fail back you would run:

server_standby server_4 -restore mover


where server_4 is the one you want to fail back to.

iSCSI connection will be retrying until the iSCSI target comes back online. What is your current disktimeout value set to ? In ESX and VMs ?

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December 23rd, 2008 16:00

1. If I manual failback a datamover what's the
outage to iSCSI connected hosts (VMware)?


that really depends on your model, the number of file systems, which protocols are used and so on ....

2. What's the best way to failback a DM? We fixed the problem that caused the initial failover.
Currently the old DM shows sate of "Out of service".
From the GUI do I reboot it first...do restore...Which steps? Thanks!


just a restore
(If you have installed new NAS code on that data mover you want to do a reboot first)
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