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May 10th, 2010 23:00

Unlicensed Powerpath for windows and failover

If  I use unlicensed powerpath for windows,

does the failover will work in this case,or I need licensed powerpath for failover functionality

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May 11th, 2010 06:00

Basic failover allows you conenct two storage ports to one HBA.  If there is a failover on the array then the I/O will be redirected the the redundant storage port.  There is no load balancing.   If you have a second HBA zoned to storage ports they will be marked as unlicensed and not used when using basic failover.

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May 11th, 2010 03:00

What is it  "Basic failover policy"

In my case I have two node  Exchange ccr cluster, each node have  two "Qlogic Fibre Chanel adapter"

When I disable active  addapter ,I see disks in "my computer", I can write/copy data to this disks, but exchange cant write data to disks, and all databases are in failed state.

Can you explain what mean "Basic failover Policy" or give some documentation

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May 11th, 2010 03:00

Unlicensed PP provides "Basic Failover" policy. You can see same is reported in "powermt display dev=all" too

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May 11th, 2010 04:00

With the unlicensed  PPath you're only allowed to have 1 HBA. With 2 HBA's you need a license.

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May 11th, 2010 06:00

Hello.  To add to this, Basic Failover mode allows I/O to flow on one path.  So, if the HBA has multiple ports, only one port will pass I/O.  In the output of "powermt display", one path will be in the "active" state while the others are in the "unlic" state.

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