Hi Novonil,
My disks are not SCSI3, but they are not "connected to multiple hosts" - I guess this is the point of FSS - you don't need disks in an array - you can use local disks (which probably are not going to be SCSI3).
Just to clarify, as in opening post, I am testing FSS in Virtual box, so the 2 VMs are running on my laptop using virtual networks and virtual disks. So I am not expecting this to be supported as this is not supported from a redundancy poiint of view (my laptop is a SPOF) and a data protection point of view (I am using fencing in disabled mode which gives me no protection against split brain, so in a real environment I should be using I/O fencing or CPS).
FSS was demonstated to me at Vision and this was running on virtual hardware, which I believe was VMWare ESX which I presume was using vmdks which are not SCSI3.
I installed SFCFS HA on Node A and then cloned it to create Node B, so they should be identically configured - below is output of ifconfig -a:
Node A:
[root@r55v61a log]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:7A:FF:1E
inet addr:192.168.56.51 Bcast:192.168.56.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe7a:ff1e/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:9744 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7611 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:806345 (787.4 KiB) TX bytes:1783862 (1.7 MiB)
eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:7A:FF:1E
inet addr:192.168.56.55 Bcast:192.168.56.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:C9:3A:39
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fec9:3a39/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:113984 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:121992 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15288510 (14.5 MiB) TX bytes:18173014 (17.3 MiB)
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:1A:E8:66
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe1a:e866/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:114602 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:121423 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15335104 (14.6 MiB) TX bytes:17804072 (16.9 MiB)
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:B8:54:AE
inet addr:192.168.57.51 Bcast:192.168.57.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:feb8:54ae/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:720 (720.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1796 (1.7 KiB) TX bytes:1796 (1.7 KiB)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Node B:
[root@r55v61b bin]# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:68:CC:26
inet addr:192.168.56.52 Bcast:192.168.56.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe68:cc26/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:23233 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:21826 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1899658 (1.8 MiB) TX bytes:10908440 (10.4 MiB)
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:2F:39:51
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe2f:3951/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:140787 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:132047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:21324780 (20.3 MiB) TX bytes:19628051 (18.7 MiB)
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:15:CD:E8
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe15:cde8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:140200 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:132810 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:21113691 (20.1 MiB) TX bytes:19811643 (18.8 MiB)
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:00:F7:01
inet addr:192.168.57.52 Bcast:192.168.57.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe00:f701/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:360 (360.0 b) TX bytes:720 (720.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4040 (3.9 KiB) TX bytes:4040 (3.9 KiB)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
FSS and CVM are working in terms of I can mount a filesystem on both nodes and write to filesystems from both nodes, - it is just the starting of CVM that is not working for FSS. See below:
Node A:
[root@r55v61a ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 8022104 1531008 6077024 21% /
/dev/sda1 101086 11792 84075 13% /boot
tmpfs 206120 0 206120 0% /dev/shm
/dev/vx/dsk/fss-dg/fssvol1
16384 5488 10478 35% /fss1
/dev/vx/dsk/cvm-dg/volshare1
5120 3820 1300 75% /share1
[root@r55v61a ~]#
[root@r55v61a ~]# echo test > /fss1/created_from_a
[root@r55v61a ~]# echo test > /share1/created_from_a
Node B:
[root@r55v61b /]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 8022104 1534184 6073848 21% /
/dev/sda1 101086 11792 84075 13% /boot
tmpfs 190632 0 190632 0% /dev/shm
/dev/vx/dsk/fss-dg/fssvol1
16384 5488 10478 35% /fss1
/dev/vx/dsk/cvm-dg/volshare1
5120 3820 1300 75% /share1
[root@r55v61b /]# echo test > /fss1/created_from_b
[root@r55v61b /]# echo test > /share1/created_from_b
[root@r55v61b /]# ls -l /fss1 /share1
/fss1:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 13 23:25 created_from_a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 13 23:26 created_from_b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 May 13 22:55 lost+found
/share1:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 13 23:25 created_from_a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 13 23:26 created_from_b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 May 10 14:13 lost+found
Node A:
[root@r55v61a ~]# ls -l /fss1 /share1
/fss1:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 13 23:25 created_from_a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 13 2014 created_from_b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 May 13 22:55 lost+found
/share1:
total 2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 13 23:25 created_from_a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 May 13 2014 created_from_b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 May 10 14:13 lost+found
Mike