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Im using ESXi 5.5 and have a Linux VM setup at a QA server for a production environment, running CentOS 6.6.
Question is, how do I setup multipathing between the VM and the ESXi server?
Currently, the production HW (physical) has multipathing because of 2 FC ports routing to 2 fabrics, but when it comes to ESXi, it looks like the multipathing is handled on the ESXi server itself, and I can't see a way to present 2 paths for the same device to the VM.
The reason im trying to do this is to match the production stack as closely as possible in the QA environment, and that would include using the multipath daemon on the VM itself.
Suggestions?
To be more specific, the production host has 2x QLE2562 HBA's, with a total of 4x 8GB ports.
What im trying to do is make the QA environment also look like it has 2 HBA's (hopefully with the QLE2564 driver).
Is there a way to properly emulate the QLE2562 HBA on a VM, so that I can directly zone the SAN to the VM rather than to the ESXi host, or at a minimum, somehow pass-through the multipathing from the ESXi server to the VM so that it sees 4 paths for each lun?
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