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Yes, I understand that Oracle VM is based on RedHat.
This is what Dom0 shows:
root@hsarcovmsp3:~# ls -lhd /etc/*releas*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Mar 12 11:20 /etc/enterprise-release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Mar 12 11:20 /etc/ovs-release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 Mar 12 11:20 /etc/redhat-release
root@hsarcovmsp3:~# cat /etc/*releas*
Oracle VM server release 2.1.5
Oracle VM server release 2.1.5
Oracle VM server release 2.1.5
root@hsarcovmsp3:~# uname -a
Linux hsarcovmsp3 2.6.18-8.1.15.5.1.el5xen #1 SMP Thu Aug 6 15:25:40 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
root@hsarcovmsp3:~#
At this point in time I have only Dom0 running, no DomUs. There is obviously no shortage of CPUs (the system has 16 cores :-). I did increase the memory for Dom0 to 3.5GB, but that didn't change anything.
I do have a tcpdump capture of the traffic when the error occurred, but I am not an expert of the iSCSI protocol and it very definitely appears to be not something that one can pick up quickly...
I guess I am looking for some configuration tricks or whatever... something I have not thought of. Maybe somebody experienced similar problems and found some workaround???
Regards,
Werner
>>> "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@xxxxxx> 8/27/2009 1:35 PM >>>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:21:46AM -0700, Werner Kuballa wrote:
>
> I am trying to use two Infortrend iSCSI systems (A16E-G2130-4, each with 16x750GB in Raid 6) for our Oracle VM environment (three big Dell R900 servers). When I copy files on the Infortrend I receive SCSI errors, resulting in loss of connection. I read some postings to this user group indicating that others are successfully using Infortrend storage systems. However, I have tried pretty much everything I can think of, but can not get the Infortrend working reliably with Dom0. This is what I have tried:
>
> - simple iSCSI network connection, just one server connected with only one 1Gb Ethernet NIC to the Infortrend (exclusively no other connections on the Infortrend)
>
> - when installing Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 natively on the R900, the Infortrend works fine - in all
> different network connections (single connection, bonded NICs, etc.)
>
What is your dom0 OS? Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 and the Xen included
in it?
Or something else?
> - accessing an EMC AX4 iSCSI system works without any problems
>
That's weird.
> No matter what I tried, when utilizing the Infortrend in Dom0 I always get errors as shown below. And it gets worse when I am using "ocfs2" (what I eventually have to use) - ocfs2 fences off the system when these errors occur and reboots the server.
>
> Infortrend Support has no solution for this problem, they maintain that XEN is not a supported platform.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
Does this happen when only dom0 is running, ie. no domUs?
If it happens when you have load on the server, try giving dom0 more
weight (and dedicating a cpu core for it) so that it can always get the
needed cpu time for iSCSI processing.
-- Pasi
> Regards,
> Werner
>
>
>
>
> Aug 27 05:16:24 ovm3 multipathd: IFT110: load table [0 8787689472 multipath 1 queue_if_no_path 0 1 1 round-robin 0 1 1 8:48 100]
>
> Aug 27 05:16:24 ovm3 multipathd: IFT110: event checker started
> Aug 27 05:16:24 ovm3 multipathd: dm-0: add map (uevent)
> Aug 27 05:16:24 ovm3 multipathd: dm-0: devmap already registered
> Aug 27 05:16:24 ovm3 multipathd: dm-1: add map (uevent)
> Aug 27 05:16:24 ovm3 multipathd: dm-1: devmap already registered
> Aug 27 05:16:25 ovm3 iscsid: received iferror -38
> Aug 27 05:16:25 ovm3 last message repeated 2 times
> Aug 27 05:16:25 ovm3 iscsid: connection1:0 is operational now
> Aug 27 05:18:08 ovm3 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
> Aug 27 05:18:08 ovm3 kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-1, internal journal
> Aug 27 05:18:08 ovm3 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Aug 27 05:19:16 ovm3 kernel: ping timeout of 5 secs expired, last rx 13940, last ping 15190, now 16440
> Aug 27 05:19:16 ovm3 kernel: connection1:0: iscsi: detected conn error (1011)
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: sd 4:0:0:1: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 49529536
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: device-mapper: multipath: Failing path 8:48.
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: sd 4:0:0:1: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1569783144
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: sd 4:0:0:1: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1569784168
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: sd 4:0:0:1: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1569785192
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: sd 4:0:0:1: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1569786216
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: sd 4:0:0:1: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1569786224
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: sd 4:0:0:1: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1569787248
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 iscsid: Kernel reported iSCSI connection 1:0 error (1011) state (3)
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: sd 4:0:0:1: SCSI error: return code = 0x00020000
> Aug 27 05:19:17 ovm3 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, sector 1569788272
>
>
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