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Re: Vdsik Presenting

 
Navaneeda
Regular Advisor

Vdsik Presenting

I have 2 HBA in my System. I want to connect to my SAN Storage and Present 2 different VDisk to each one of the HBA in my system. I am using Windows OS. Is it Possible to present vdisk to my 2 HBA in my same system??

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IBaltay
Honored Contributor

Re: Vdsik Presenting

Hi,
assuming that you have:
a) 2 HBAs connected to 2 separate fabrics and b) EVA4k (active/active) front ports are connected to both fabrics (2 in each)
c) all EVA4k front ports are zoned with all host HBAs

THEN
you can loadbalance the HW IO paths from the host to the EVA via the multipathing:
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Dileep..
Trusted Contributor

Re: Vdsik Presenting

You can present separate vdisks to each HBA on the same server. However the best practice is to present vdisks to both HBA and enable Multipathing to have load balancing and redundancy.
As mentioned above ensure that you are connected each HBA to each fabric and is zoned properly with EVA ports on the fabrics.