Concurrent Storage Question

From: Shekhar Dhotre (Shekhar.Dhotre@LENDLEASEREI.COM)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 23:13:16 EDT


Hi All,


This is slightly off topic question so please bear up with me . I am
working on proof of concept project (Oracle9i RAC on redhat Enterprise
Linux) and need some help in understanding concurrent access.
I have a shared SAN storage allocated to two linux servers (server A
and B) Everything works fine except these servers cannot use shared
storage at the same time. If I mount partions /file systems on server A,
server B can’t use it but If I halt server A and reboot server B
then it becomes available to server B. Oracle9i RAC requires concurrent
access to SAN storage, i.e. serverA and serverB need concurrent access to
San storage .
Does anyone know in general how to configure concurrent storage? How do
we configure storage for HACMP (concurrent)? The storage is allocated
from SAN as a shared storage ,is there any kind of SCSI lock in Linux ?


        Two linux nodes Lq204 and LQ205 connected to MSA8000.
 
                 On LQ204
 
                 [root@usatl01lq204 root]# fdisk -l
  
                 Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 17702 cylinders
                 Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
  
                    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
 
                 /dev/sda1 1 4462 35840983+ 83 Linux
 
                 /dev/sda2 4463 8924 35841015 83 Linux
 
                 /dev/sda3 8925 14024 40965750 83 Linux
 
                 /dev/sda4 14025 17702 29543535 83 Linux
 
 
                 On node Lq205 :
 
 
                 [root@usatl01lq205 c01]# fdisk -l
 
                 Unable to read /dev/sda
 
 
                 but on LQ205 the partions are available : (sda1,2,34 )
but it says unable to read .
 
                 [root@usatl01lq205 proc]# cat partitions
                 major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio
wmerge wsect wuse runni
                 ng use aveq
  
                   142194517 sda 33438 1170455 1203968 270600 32925 431
33356 9810 0 27
  
                    35840983 sda1 11032 387219 398263 90240 10951 0 10951
3380 0 93600
  
                    35841015 sda2 11377 398094 409483 89100 11042 431
11473 4140 0 9320
  
                   40965750 sda3 10996 385136 396144 91230 10932 0 10932
2290 0 93500
  
                    29543535 sda4 14 0 28 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 30
 
 



Thanks in advance
SD





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