MSA 2000fc vSphere and round robin

[spig777]

I have a number of MSA 2212fc G1 and MSA 2312fc G2 storage arrays conected to 4 hosts I'm planning to upgrade from ESXi 3.5 to vsphere 4.0. They all have dual controllers and are running as active/active using fixed path. The licenses have been upgraded as part of support agreement and therefore will be Enterprise licenses (as opposed to enterprise plus)

Can I use round robin on vsphere 4 with this setup to provide better load balancing across the 2 SAN fabrics? Has anyone else used round robin with this type of storage? I'm slightly concerned doing this with the MSA212fc G1's as they don't do true active/active.

[hagerstrom]

I'm wondering this too.

I'm using MRU right now, can I change to RR on the fly?

[spig777]

Did you change over to RR? What version of the MSA are you using?

[mike_laspina · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The VMware Compatibilty Guide indicates the path policy should be fixed so unless HP directs you to do otherwise it would not be supported.

Regards,

Mike

vExpert 2009