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How to setup Broadcom VMware ESXi iSCSI MPIO with ONTAP SAN ASA

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Applies to

  • ONTAP ASA 
  • VMware ESXi 8.0u2 

Description

  • Best practices to setup VMWare ESXi Multipath IO environment with optimal performance, redundancy and load balancing in iSCSI environment 
  • Most of these principles can be applied to NVMe/TCP as runs over the same infrastructure
  • Testing has shown in ASA environments the performance can be improved with High performance plugin ( HPP ) with a latency policy 
    • vSphere 9 / ESXi 9 now has a native multipath (NMP)  for NetApp which uses a latency based path selection policy ( PSP ) 

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