Hi All,
Relatively new to vmware so I hope this is an accurate description.
We have 3 x Vmvware ESXi 4.1 physical hosts that are part of a vcentre cluster. Due to the availability of physical adapters on the hosts I have configured 3 physical adapters on each host to the SAN, a Dell Equallogic PS5000.
I have created 3 VMKernel ports with 1 physical adapter assigned as a primary on each. These VMKernel ports each have a different IP address. I have used SSH to bind the VMKernels to the Software HBA. Effectively I now have 3 physically separate connections to our storage fabric to our Equallogic.
After all of this configuration I am only seeing 2 separate storage paths to the SAN and not 3 as expected. Is there a limit to the number of multiple paths allowed in ESXI 4.1 or have I missed something?
Any help greatly appreciated. Or any other info I can post just let me know.