Increasing the disk timeout values for a Linu 2_6分析和总结分析和总结.pdfVIP

Increasing the disk timeout values for a Linux 2.6 virtual machine (1009465)  Inconsistent Linux operating system performance when disks are located on SAN-based datastores.  The Linux Guest operating system may experience intermittent issues when stored on SAN-based datastores.  During a host storage path failover, a Linux Guest operating system reports a system error or file system error, encounters a kernel panic, or becomes unresponsive.  Check the current timeout for every generic SCSI device in Linux sysfs using the command: find /sys/class/scsi_generic/*/device/timeout -exec grep -H . {} \;  The timeout value for an individual disk can be modified using th sysfs interface. For example: echo 180 /sys/block/sda/device/timeout Note: This change does not persist across reboots.  The VMware Tools installer creates a udev rul at /etc/udev/rules.d/99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules that sets the timeout for udev each VMware virtual disk device and reloads th rules so that it takes effect immediately. udev This rule is applied during each subsequent startup. For example, the following is th rul from vSphere 4.x: # Redhat systems ACTION==add, BUS==scsi, SYSFS{vendor}==VMware, , SYSFS{model}==VMware Virtual S, RUN+=/bin/sh -c echo 180 /sys$DEVPATH/device/timeout # Debian systems ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEMS==scsi, ATTRS{vendor}==VMware , ATTRS{model}==Virtual disk , RUN+=/bin/sh -c echo 180 /sys$DEVPATH/device/timeout # SuSE / Ubuntu systems ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEMS==scsi, ATTRS{vendor}==VMware, , ATTRS{model}==VMware Virtual S, RUN+=/bin/sh -c echo 180 /sys$DEVPATH/device/timeout