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Configuring MPIO

Configuring MPIO - Windows Server Tutorial

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Configuring MPIO

- [Instructor] With highly available storage where there are multiple paths from the physical disks in the storage enclosure to the server, you should use Multipath I/O. The Windows Multipath I/O feature combines the multiple paths to physical disks as a single logical path that is used for data access. Let's start by going to the add roles and features wizard in our server manager and we could add the Multipath I/O feature. We'll select our server, click next, and then we'll go down to features and choose Multipath I/O. Next and install. In a previous video, we installed an iSCSI target and initiator and we're going to use this for our Multipath I/O setup. Multipath I/O, the I/O stands for input/output, is sometimes referred to as MPIO. And the installation is complete. We'll go ahead and close that and we'll go to tools and choose MPIO from the list. From here we're going to go to where it says discover multi-paths and we need to add the iSCSI devices by clicking the checkbox and…

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