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FireDog7881
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Contributor

Setting Round Robin as default for datastores

I am looking for a way to set Round Robin as the default setting for my data stores.

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gboskin
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Enthusiast

Round Robin is experimental in ESX 3.5 and fully supported in vSphere ..

what version of vmware are you using???

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FireDog7881
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Contributor

I am using vSphere 4.0 with vCenter 4.0.

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glynnd1
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Expert

I don't know how to set RR as the default, but it is possible to script the setting of all storage of a particular type to using RR - I'll see if I can dig up a rough sample for you to start with, but for now here is an outline from memory:

list= use "esxcli nmp device list" to get a list of all devices, use awk to limit it to certain devices, eg exclude local disk

for item in list, do

esxcli nmp device setpolicy -- device $item RR

done

But, yes, I suspect there is a way of setting RR as the default for all new storage devices.

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