Table of Contents
VMware - ESX - SAN
VMware Documentation
SAN Conceptual and Design Basics
ESX 2.5 SAN Configuration Guide (PDF)
ESX 3.0.1 and VirtualCenter 2.0.1 SAN Configuration Guide (PDF)
ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.0.2 - Fibre Channel SAN Configuration Guide (PDF)
Implementing VMware ESX Server 2.1 with IBM TotalStorage FAStT
VMware vSphere Blog - Configuration Settings for ALUA Devices
VMware KB Articles
Multipathing policies in ESXi 5.x and ESXi/ESX 4.x (1011340)
Obtaining LUN pathing information for ESX or ESXi hosts (1003973)
Changing the default pathing policy for new/existing LUNs (1017760)
Changing a LUN to use a different Path Selection Policy (PSP) (1036189)
Changing Path Selection Policy for multiple LUNs (2053628)
Modifying path information for ESXi/ESX hosts (2000552)
Adjusting Round Robin IOPS limit from default 1000 to 1 (2069356)
Trespassing of LUNs on the array when using Active Non-optimized (ANO) path (2005369)
ALUA parameters in the output of ESX/ESXi 4.x and ESXi 5.x commands (1022030)
Understanding the storage path failover sequence in VMware ESX/ESXi native multipathing (1027963)
SCSI events that can trigger ESX server to fail a LUN over to another path (1003433)
PSP configuration for a device is not updated after changing the default SATP PSP (1006528)
Storage vMotion might fail on some iSCSI active-active arrays (2000398)
Identifying ESXi/ESX boot LUNs for Boot From SAN configurations (2030957)
VMW_PSP_MRU path ranking capabilities in ESXi 5.0 (2003468)
Troubleshooting storage issues when using VMware products (2013160)
Blogposts/Articles
boche.net - Changing the default vSphere 5.0 PSP to Round Robin
boche.net - Configure VMware ESX(i) Round Robin on EMC Storage
CormacHogan.com - Automating the IOPS setting in the Round Robin PSP
Yellow-Bricks - What’s the point of setting “–IOPS=1” ?
Yuri's Technology Blog - Set the Path Selection Policy for every device path of every host in your vSphere 5.0/5.1 cluster using PowerCLI