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what multipathing policy to use?

TDUBB1234 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:45:45 GMT

what multipathing policy should i use for vmware?

for active active arrays

what multipathing policy to use?

droach — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:15:22 GMT

Round Robin with ALUA enabled

Re: what multipathing policy to use?

TDUBB1234 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:37:16 GMT

what about for windows hosts. why I am not seeing all optimized paths?

Re: what multipathing policy to use?

droach — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:59:09 GMT

Only the paths to the primary controller (the one that owns the LUN) will show as optimized. The unoptimized paths are the paths via your secondary controller.

Re: what multipathing policy to use?

TDUBB1234 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:14:00 GMT

how come lun config_check -A is still showing this

lun config_check -A

The following FCP Initiators are sending Read/Write i/o over the

FCP Partner Paths during the last 68954 seconds

WWPN Partner's Port ops bytes ostype

21:00:00:1b:32:1d:7c:19 0d 10 5120 vmware

Offending OS: vmware

Proxy ops exceeded 300 out of 300 times

Proxy bytes exceed 0 out of 300 times

No Problems Found

i have switch to round robin on my netapp luns

Re: what multipathing policy to use?

droach — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:14:25 GMT

Old data? Try the command 'lun stats -o' and 'sysstat -b 1' to see if the Partner Ops are increasing on any LUNS.

Re: what multipathing policy to use?

TDUBB1234 — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:50:33 GMT

seems ok now. changed to rr on vmware and rebooted. thanks