For more information about the VMware Management Interface, go to www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/.


 

Failover Paths
Failover Paths

Multipathing support allows your system to maintain a constant connection between the server machine and the storage device in case of the failure of a host bus adapter (HBA), switch, storage controller, or a Fibre Channel cable.

For each SAN Logical Unit Number (LUN), this page displays the available paths and the preferred path. By default, ESX Server always uses the preferred path to the LUN; if it cannot access the LUN through the preferred path, then it tries the alternate paths.

The failover paths show the adapter, target, LUN and the SAN target for the LUN. The status of each path is indicated by a symbol that corresponds to its current status.

- This indicates that the path is active and data is being transferred successfully.

- This indicates that the path is set to disabled and is available for activation.

- This indicates that the path should be active, but the software cannot connect to the LUN through this path.

For more options regarding multipating support, www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/ esx20admin_multipath_disks.html.