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3 Configuring and Installing the PS Series Multipathing Extension Module for VMware vSphere and PS Series | TR1074
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Audience ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
2 Deploying the MEM ...................................................................................................................................................... 6
2.1 Deployment considerations and requirements ................................................................................................... 6
2.2 Deployment considerations for iSCSI connection count .................................................................................... 6
2.3 Deployment considerations for iSCSI login timeout ........................................................................................... 8
2.4 Deployment considerations and best practice parameters ................................................................................ 8
3 Configuring an iSCSI vSwitch for multipathing ............................................................................................................. 9
3.1 Interactive mode configuration ........................................................................................................................... 9
3.2 Unattended mode configuration ....................................................................................................................... 11
4 Installing the MEM ...................................................................................................................................................... 12
5 Verification of MEM iSCSI session creation ............................................................................................................... 13
6 Advanced iSCSI connection configuration parameters .............................................................................................. 15
6.1 Increasing the default values ............................................................................................................................ 15
6.2 Decreasing the default values .......................................................................................................................... 16
6.3 Setting the EHCM configuration values under vSphere ................................................................................... 16
7 Using MEM with Virtual Volumes ............................................................................................................................... 18
7.1 MEM configuration and installation................................................................................................................... 18
7.2 Access controls................................................................................................................................................. 18
7.3 Virtual Volumes impact on iSCSI connection count ......................................................................................... 18
8 Summary .................................................................................................................................................................... 19
A Example iSCSI vSwitch configurations ...................................................................................................................... 20
B Installing the MEM with VMware Update Manager .................................................................................................... 21
C Using the setup.pl script to configure Round Robin MPIO ......................................................................................... 24
D Software and firmware versions ................................................................................................................................. 25
E Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 26