Mounting an IBM XiV LUN onto a RHEL v5 host without installing the HAK
There are two methods of doing this. The first is installing the IBM Host Attachment Kit (HAK). This makes mounting any LUNS from the XiV dead easy, but isn’t what this article is about. Installing the HAK will blow away your multipath.conf and any changes you might have made to it. What if you wanted to mount the LUN without installing the HAK? What if you wanted to mount LUNs from two different SANs? This is where manually modifying multipath.conf comes in. I’m documenting the changes that the HAK made to multipath.conf so you don’t need to install it. blacklist […]
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