I meant to ask the other day. What kind of disk enclosure are you using? On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]>wrote:
> Never mind. I finally found a entry in a discussion group. Apparently > redundant paths are not supported for SAS drives. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:54 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: VMWare multipathing with SAS drives > > We're running a Dell Poweredge R710 with a PERC 5/E controller going to a > external disk enclosure with SAS drives. We want to have multipathing on > this system so we connected a cable from each port on the card to a port on > the enclosure. Going into the controller configuration, we disabled the > controller BIOS. We've tried setting up the drives in various > configurations on the controller but no matter what we've tried we see 2 > active paths on one port of the controller and 1 active path on the other on > the VSphere client configuration page. Has anyone worked with similar a > similar setup and might have some suggestions? > > -Paul > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
