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Chrisb2k
Level 4
12 years ago

Appliances, vmware and multipathing

Hi all I'm seeing a lot of folk buying appliances and finding out that they can't use both of the HBAs with VMware vStorage API because multipathing is not supported on the appliance. Whilst "this ...
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  • Andrew_Madsen's avatar
    Andrew_Madsen
    12 years ago

    The issue is not on Symantec's side but on VMWare's side. Their API is chingered and does not handle the dual path from ANY Linux host used as a VMware backup server, be it an appliance or a build your own. Has nothing to do with DMP or multipath, or PowerPath or anything else. So they are waiting for VMware to fix the issue. 

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Ed_Carter
Level 4
12 years ago

We're on a Clarrion CX4 which isn't true ALUA so really need it to have access to both SP's. We get a lot of noise re conflicts etc on the 5220 messages though as yet haven't experienced any actual issues with the backups though makes you wonder what impact its having on potential throughput. Its a bit of a challange which we are trying to line up a call with Symantec on via our account manager. I'll post back if we get anywhere. Really interested to hear how others have configured, in particular on Clarrion or VNX arrays.

 

Ed