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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Viewing and changing the multipathing of a LUN


Storage LUNs presented to the ESXi hosts preferably need to be made highly available. This is achieved by enabling multiple connectivity paths between the ESXi hosts and the SAN storage. Once configured correctly, these paths can then be used either to failover or load balance the I/O activity.

In this section, we will learn how to view the current multipathing configuration for a particular LUN.

How to do it...

Information regarding the multipathing for a LUN can be viewed either from the vSphere Web Client GUI or using ESXi CLI. In this recipe, I will cover both these methods.

Using the vSphere Web Client GUI

The following steps will help you view the multipathing information using the vSphere Web Client:

  1. Use the vSphere Web Client to connect to vCenter Server.

  2. Navigate to Home | Storage:

  3. From the Inventory list, click on the datastore whose multipathing needs to be verified.

  4. Navigate to Manage | Settings | Connectivity and Multipathing to view all...