Xenservers (XCP-ng 7.5)
-long-red: Supermicro H8DCL-6F, AMD 4332 HE (x2), 32GB ECC, ConnectX-2, Radeon RX 480 & HD 6450
-big-red: Supermicro H8SCM-F, AMD 4376 HE, 32GB ECC, ConnectX-2,
FreeNAS (11.1)
-blue: Supermicro H8SCM-F, Opteron 4376 HE, 48GB ECC, ConnectX-2, H310 (x2), 480GB DC S3500(x2),
240GB M500 (x2)
-SE-3016: 1TB WD10EACS (x2), 2TB 5k3000 (x2), 3TB DT01ACA300 (x6)
Network: Linksys E2000-RM (running Tomato), Mellanox SX6012, Dell 2816
-long-red: Supermicro H8DCL-6F, AMD 4332 HE (x2), 32GB ECC, ConnectX-2, Radeon RX 480 & HD 6450
-big-red: Supermicro H8SCM-F, AMD 4376 HE, 32GB ECC, ConnectX-2,
FreeNAS (11.1)
-blue: Supermicro H8SCM-F, Opteron 4376 HE, 48GB ECC, ConnectX-2, H310 (x2), 480GB DC S3500(x2),
240GB M500 (x2)
-SE-3016: 1TB WD10EACS (x2), 2TB 5k3000 (x2), 3TB DT01ACA300 (x6)
Network: Linksys E2000-RM (running Tomato), Mellanox SX6012, Dell 2816
My goal is to get the most out of my iSCSI connections from my Xenservers to my FreeNAS. Right now I'm feeding traffic over two asymmetrical paths using MPIO. One connection is GbE the other is 10 GbE. Below is the relevant section of my current multipath.conf file on my Xenservers:
Code:
device {
vendor "FreeNAS"
product "iSCSI Disk"
path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
path_selector "queue-length 0"
hardware_handler "1 alua"
rr_weight priorities
}
Lately I'm using the multipath.conf values above; which are measurably slower with traffic down both paths then if I force it all on to 10GbE. So, what changes would give me a 10:1 split of traffic (40:1 down the road); or alternatively how can I just go active/passive and have DM-Multipath choose the faster path without manual intervention?
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