History log of /freebsd-10-stable/sys/cam/ctl/ctl_ha.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 288789 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r288146: Make HA peers announce their parameters on connect.

HA protocol requires strict version, parameters and configuration match.
Differences there may cause full set of problems up to kernel panic.
To avoid that, validate peer parameters on connect, and abort connection
immediately if some mismatch detected.


# 288773 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287957: Kill HA link and shutdown the threads on shutdown.


# 288732 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287621: Reimplement CTL High Availability.

CTL HA functionality was originally implemented by Copan many years ago,
but large part of the sources was never published. This change includes
clean room implementation of the missing code and fixes for many bugs.

This code supports dual-node HA with ALUA in four modes:
- Active/Unavailable without interlink between nodes;
- Active/Standby with second node handling only basic LUN discovery and
reservation, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with both nodes processing commands and accessing the
backing storage, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with second node working as proxy, transfering all
commands to the first node for execution through the interlink.

Unlike original Copan's implementation, depending on specific hardware,
this code uses simple custom TCP-based protocol for interlink. It has
no authentication, so it should never be enabled on public interfaces.

The code may still need some polishing, but generally it is functional.

Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 275493 05-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r274785: Partially reconstruct Active/Standby clusting.

In this mode one head is in Active state, supporting all commands, while
another is in Standby state, supporting only minimal LUN discovery subset.

It is still incomplete since Standby state requires reservation support,
which is impossible to do right without having interlink between heads.
But it allows to run some basic experiments.


# 288732 05-Oct-2015 mav

MFC r287621: Reimplement CTL High Availability.

CTL HA functionality was originally implemented by Copan many years ago,
but large part of the sources was never published. This change includes
clean room implementation of the missing code and fixes for many bugs.

This code supports dual-node HA with ALUA in four modes:
- Active/Unavailable without interlink between nodes;
- Active/Standby with second node handling only basic LUN discovery and
reservation, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with both nodes processing commands and accessing the
backing storage, synchronizing with the first node through the interlink;
- Active/Active with second node working as proxy, transfering all
commands to the first node for execution through the interlink.

Unlike original Copan's implementation, depending on specific hardware,
this code uses simple custom TCP-based protocol for interlink. It has
no authentication, so it should never be enabled on public interfaces.

The code may still need some polishing, but generally it is functional.

Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.


# 275493 05-Dec-2014 mav

MFC r274785: Partially reconstruct Active/Standby clusting.

In this mode one head is in Active state, supporting all commands, while
another is in Standby state, supporting only minimal LUN discovery subset.

It is still incomplete since Standby state requires reservation support,
which is impossible to do right without having interlink between heads.
But it allows to run some basic experiments.