TL;DR EMC VNX IS your grandfather's SAN
Per "Using EMC VNX Storage withVMware vSphereVersion 4.0" published 2015-JAN, does not support vSphere "Multipathing Configuration for Software iSCSI Using Port Binding" (aka MPIO).
Port binding is not new, Virtzilla's whitepaper was published in 2012, but EMC likes the old days. EMC recommends "implicit assignment", which relies on the ESXi TCP/IP stack determining the correct vmkernel port based on directly connected networks. If it is still profitable, why improve it?
Unfortunately, customers pay for, and expect, an Active/Active SAN and only get half.
Now get off my lawn!
Per "Using EMC VNX Storage withVMware vSphereVersion 4.0" published 2015-JAN, does not support vSphere "Multipathing Configuration for Software iSCSI Using Port Binding" (aka MPIO).
Port binding is not new, Virtzilla's whitepaper was published in 2012, but EMC likes the old days. EMC recommends "implicit assignment", which relies on the ESXi TCP/IP stack determining the correct vmkernel port based on directly connected networks. If it is still profitable, why improve it?
Unfortunately, customers pay for, and expect, an Active/Active SAN and only get half.
Now get off my lawn!
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