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3 Dell EMC SC Series Storage and Microsoft Multipath I/O | CML1004
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
1 Preface ......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Audience ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1.2 Feedback ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
2 Introduction to Microsoft Multipath I/O ......................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 SC Series storage front-end connection options ................................................................................................ 6
2.1.1 Legacy port mode ............................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1.2 Virtual port mode ................................................................................................................................................ 7
2.1.3 SAS front-end support ........................................................................................................................................ 9
3 Install the MPIO feature .............................................................................................................................................. 10
3.1 Windows Server 2008 R2 ................................................................................................................................. 10
3.1.1 Server manager GUI ........................................................................................................................................ 10
3.1.2 Windows Server manager CLI .......................................................................................................................... 10
3.1.3 Windows Server Core ....................................................................................................................................... 10
3.2 Windows Server 2012 or later .......................................................................................................................... 11
3.2.1 Server Manager GUI ........................................................................................................................................ 11
3.2.2 PowerShell ........................................................................................................................................................ 11
4 Configure server objects on SC Series storage ......................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Automatic configuration with the Dell Storage Manager client ......................................................................... 12
4.2 Manual server configuration with FC ................................................................................................................ 13
4.3 Manual server configuration with iSCSI ........................................................................................................... 15
4.3.1 Manual server configuration with SAS FE ........................................................................................................ 18
4.4 Restrict volume mapping paths ........................................................................................................................ 19
5 Configure MPIO .......................................................................................................................................................... 20
5.1 Associate SC Series volumes with the Microsoft DSM .................................................................................... 20
5.1.1 Using the MPIO configuration tool (GUI) .......................................................................................................... 20
5.1.2 Using PowerShell (Windows Server 2012 or later) .......................................................................................... 21
5.1.3 Using the MPCLAIM command ........................................................................................................................ 21
5.2 Changing the default load balance policy ......................................................................................................... 22
5.2.1 Using the MPCLAIM command ........................................................................................................................ 22
5.2.2 Using PowerShell (Windows Server 2012 or later) .......................................................................................... 23
5.3 Per-volume load-balancing settings ................................................................................................................. 23