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Ubuntu 22.04 Multipath I/O Problem with Dell VRTX

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High-Level Architecture of Dell PowerEdge VRTX In the previous article , I explain the issue I am running into when installing Ubuntu 22.04 on a Dell VRTX server.  To understand a little bit more about what went wrong and potentially fix the problem, I tried to know how the Dell VRTX server was designed. After some googling, I found the  Technical Guide from Dell.  It revealed a pretty interesting design of the system.  The Dell VRTX system is designed to be a Cost-Effective Hyperconverged server system for a small office environment or remote office environment, where there are some compute power is needed but not on a large scale.  One Dell VRTX chassis can host up to 4 server blades, up to 25 x 2.5 in. NLSAS, SAS, or SAS SSD hot-plug drives (not including the hard drive bays on the server blades), and 8 flexible PCIe slots.  All those hard drives, PCIe slots, and network ports belong to the Dell VRTX chassis.  The chassis management syste...