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4 Dell EMC SC Series: Microsoft Multipath I/O Best Practices | CML1004
6.3 iSCSI ................................................................................................................................................................. 21
6.3.1 Assign IP addresses and enable Jumbo Frames ............................................................................................. 22
7 Configure server object on SC Series ........................................................................................................................ 23
7.1 Automatic host configuration using the Dell Storage Manager client ............................................................... 23
7.2 Manual host configuration ................................................................................................................................ 26
7.2.1 SAS-FE manual configuration .......................................................................................................................... 27
7.2.2 FC manual configuration .................................................................................................................................. 27
7.2.3 iSCSI manual configuration .............................................................................................................................. 28
8 Present SC Series storage and apply the Microsoft DSM ......................................................................................... 34
8.1 A single volume instance is displayed in Disk Management ............................................................................ 34
8.2 Duplicate volume instances are listed in Disk Management ............................................................................ 36
8.2.1 Apply MS-DSM with the MPIO utility (GUI): ..................................................................................................... 36
8.2.2 Apply the MS-DSM with PowerShell (Windows Server 2012 and later) .......................................................... 37
8.2.3 Apply the MS-DSM with MPCLAIM .................................................................................................................. 37
8.2.4 Verify single instance of the disk ...................................................................................................................... 38
9 Multiple transports and volume mapping ................................................................................................................... 39
9.1 Limited Windows Server support ...................................................................................................................... 39
9.2 Use cases for multiple transports ..................................................................................................................... 39
9.3 Configure a volume to use a single transport ................................................................................................... 39
10 Change the default load balance policy ..................................................................................................................... 40
10.1 MPCLAIM command ........................................................................................................................................ 40
10.2 PowerShell (Windows Server 2012 or later) .................................................................................................... 41
10.3 Per-volume load-balancing settings ................................................................................................................. 41
10.3.1 Disk Management GUI ................................................................................................................................. 41
10.3.2 MPCLAIM command .................................................................................................................................... 42
11 Boot-from-SAN ........................................................................................................................................................... 44
11.1 Boot-from-SAN advantages .............................................................................................................................. 44
11.2 Boot from local disk advantages....................................................................................................................... 44
11.3 Boot-from-SAN configuration steps .................................................................................................................. 44
11.3.1 FC boot-from-SAN ........................................................................................................................................ 45
11.3.2 iSCSI boot-from-SAN ................................................................................................................................... 50
A Windows Server single-path and MPIO configuration recommendations for SC Series storage .............................. 51
A.1 Recommended updates and hotfixes for Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 ....................................................... 51
A.2 Recommended updates and hotfixes for Windows Server 2012 (non-R2 version) ......................................... 52
A.3 Recommended updates and hotfixes for Windows Server 2012 R2/2016 ...................................................... 52
A.4 Recommended registry settings for Windows Server ...................................................................................... 52