No failover when volume hardddisk fails?

[transparent]

That seems normal - our failover only occurs if the primary node stops responding to pings (ie complete failure of the entire box). I do not believe it is monitoring the actual iSCSI service, or if data is available. It would be great if the failover could monitor a hidden file or volume on the primary, and if that file or volume became inaccessible, it would fail over.

It a very low level monitoring, does not actually reflect the state of the service.

[Christian Pelg]

Thank you very much for answering. At least I know now that this seems to be normal system behavior and it's not because of my setup, configuration or whatever.

I would still like to hear more experiences regarding the detection of harddisk failure.

[enealDC]

Best thing you can do is probably respond to an snmp trap or alert and power off outlet at the PDU...

[Christian Pelg]

I've contacted open-e concerning this and they agree that harddisks are not monitored yet. They said though that they are working on this and harddisk monitoring will probably be included in the new open-e release coming in September.