{"id":1840,"date":"2016-01-20T00:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2016-01-20T00:25:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T00:25:32","slug":"vmware-lun-path-selection-policy-psp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/research\/vmware-lun-path-selection-policy-psp","title":{"rendered":"VMware LUN Path Selection Policy ( PSP )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1841 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/clip_image00241-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"clip_image0024[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/clip_image00241-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/clip_image00241.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When provisioning a new VMware host important things to configure<\/p><p>1) NTP Server<br \/>2) IP of Management with DNS Name<br \/>3) Portgroup Names<br \/>4) Syslog Server<br \/>5) SNMP Trap for monitoring<br \/>6) Renaming Local Datastore to something with the server name other than datastore1<br \/>7) Nic Teaming<\/p><p>Another thing that is also important to setup is the pass selection policy. Depending on the SAN Manufacturer they will tell you the recommended policy e.g. https:\/\/vstorage.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/28\/optimising-vsphere-path-selection-for-nimble-storage\/<\/p><p>1) Fixed<br \/>2) Round Robin<br \/>3) Recently used<\/p><p>Most of the time it will be Round Robin<\/p><p>This can be changed via Command Line<\/p><p>esxcli storage nmp satp set -s VMW_SATP_ALUA -P VMW_PSP_RR<\/p><p>or through the VMWare Client<\/p><p>Go to Configuration Tab on Host , go to Storage , Go to Properties of Datastore and click Manage Paths<\/p><p>When changed make sure no VM&#8217;s are on the host as this could disrupt them<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When provisioning a new VMware host important things to configure1) NTP Server2) IP of Management with DNS Name3) Portgroup Names4) Syslog Server5) SNMP Trap for monitoring6) Renaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1291,1179,1295,1294,1293,1292,594,1289,1290],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-fixed","tag-gui","tag-host","tag-psp","tag-recently-used","tag-round-robin","tag-vmware","tag-vmware-lun-path-selection-policy","tag-vmware-vsphere"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pariswells.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}