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Technical white paper | HP Enterprise Virtual Array Storage and VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x configuration best practices
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4. Select the desired devices for VMDirectPath; select and accept the passthrough device dependency check shown in
Figure E-6.
IMPORTANT
If you select OK, the dependent device is also configured for VMDirectPath, regardless of whether or not it was being used
by ESX.
If your server is booting from SAN, be careful not to select the incorrect HBA; your server may subsequently fail to reboot.
Figure E-6. Warning about device-dependency
As shown in Figure E-7, the VMDirectPath Configuration screen reflects the changes you have made.
Device icons indicate that the changes will only take effect when the server is rebooted.
Figure E-7. Indicating that four HBA ports have been enabled for VMDirectPath but that these changes will not take effect until a server
reboot
5. Reboot the server through the vSphere client or the command line.