VMware: Multipathing Status: Patrial/No Redundancy
Couple of weeks ago I asked on Twitter “Can anyone explain this #VMware storage view? MP status: Partial/No Redundancy.. Same cluster, same Dell Eql. SAN” .. now I was reading the release notes of vSphere 4.1 update 1 and there’s the fix…
Multipathing status for datastores that have fully redundant paths might be reported as having Partial/No Redundancy:
In the Storage View tab of vSphere Client, under certain conditions, volumes that are reported as “Partial/No Redundancy” actually have fully redundant paths. This type of misreporting occurs on iSCSI volumes with hardware initiators. VMware support called this a display bug
Cool, this issue is solved in vSphere 4.1 update 1
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Indeed it was a display buy, I called VMWare for this warning a couple of months ago
Nope, just put up a 4.1 vcenter server and gettign this on 3.5 machines.
Unless its solved in the hypervisor and not the Vcenter Server itself?
but hte link above goes t othe vcenter server release notes, and its still broken here….
Interesting im seeing this in vCenter 5.01 as well also connected to equallogic san with redundant paths.
you would think 2 years later it woudl be resolved?
“”Cheers
Just in case anyone else comes along to this blog, this is not a bug.
You need 2 separate adapters and 2 separate paths to the datastore, the software iSCSI Initiator is only 1 adapter hence single point of failure.
See http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1017634