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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By : Andrew Alloway
Book Image

VMware Horizon View High Availability

By: Andrew Alloway

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware Horizon View High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

ESXi Fibre Channel and SAN restrictions


ESXi doesn't support all Fibre Channel devices and all Fibre Channel situations.

ESXi has the following limitations:

  • ESXi does not support Fibre Channel tape drives or devices.

  • You cannot use multipathing software from within a VM to a single physical LUN. You can, however, attach multiple disks to a VM and use software technologies such as Microsoft Windows dynamic disk or disk mirroring/RAID technologies such as Logical Volume Manager (LVM) or MDADM on Linux or GEOM on Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) systems.

  • Do not mix Fibre Channel HBAs from different vendors on a single host. A single LUN cannot be accessed from different model HBAs, which can increase the failover time of Fibre Channel paths and storage processors.

  • Ensure the firmware of the HBAs, storage processors, and Fibre Channel switches are all up to date. Most support requests can be avoided if the firmware is upgraded as a first step in troubleshooting.

  • 16 GB FC HBAs are supported but...