netapp and VCB

[jnorred]

I'm building out a new vmware VCB server for my vmware environment. I'm confused on the best way to handle multipathing.

Currently,

I have the VCB server zoned to all 8 ports on my filers. I only have

one of my vmware cluster luns presented to the VCB server for testing

purposes.

In device manager, I see 8 NetApp disk devices with the following ID's:

Bus, Target, LUN

0,2,16

0,3,16

0,4,16

0,5,16

0,0,16

0,1,16

0,2,16

0,3,16

Should I just manually disable 7 of the devices? How do I determine which one is going over a primary path?

Thanks in advance..

Jason

[dconvery · Accepted solution]

VCB 1.5 supports MPIO. Just install the MPIO driver from NetApp.

Check out my VCB Proven Practice Guide on VI:OPS as well, it may be helpful -> http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1392

Dave Convery

VMware vExpert 2009

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[jnorred]

Excellent. Good site!

[dconvery]

Thanks! Glad you like it. I am just a contributor...

Dave Convery

VMware vExpert 2009

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