Questions tagged [mpio]
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Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming vs. MPIO
I've got a server with Windows Server 2012 R2 installed on it. 1 NIC on the server is used for management purposes and I've teamed the 3 other NICs which communicate with our SAN to carry out VM backups.
I'm also aware that Windows offers the MPIO…
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MPIO alike multipathing tool for Windows Server
We are looking for free multipath tool available for Windows Servers alike MPIO. Vendor specific multipath tool like Powerpath for EMC are license based and would like to evaluate different open options available from independent vendors.
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Teaming on Cisco Catalyst switch
Hopefully an easy one for someone...
If I'm setting up either an MPIO or Team/bond on a Windows server, does a channel group need setting up on the Cisco Catalyst switches that they're connected to? Is there any benefit to doing this? or likewise…
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Is it safe to "Enable-MSDSMAutomaticClaim -BusType iSCSI" in an environment with multiple iSCSI-Targets?
I'm currently setting up a backup storage cluster (Acronis ACI) where I want to attach an iSCSI target to a Hyper-V host. The manual states to enable MPIO, which is fine.
The next step is to enable MSDSM Automatic Claim for iSCSI.
However, I can't…
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Race condition in active/active clusters
DM-Multipath document says that multipathd support active/active clusters with some policies such as round-robin. However, there is some racing problem in this kind of clusters.
For example, assume there is a client who is connected to a disk in SAN…
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ISCSI, MPIO and Target-IPs
Today I played around with ISCSI, MPIO and performed some tests. Some went as expected, someothers delivered results I cannot explain.
The Test-Environment was 2 virtual machines, named A and B. Both VMs have been assigned with 2 NICS, let's call…
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