October 2016
Beginner
606 pages
11h 7m
English
Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) is a modular storage management framework, which was introduced with VMware vSphere 5. It has a plugin framework, which can be used by third party vendors to create Multipathing plugins, which can leverage array-specific Multipathing, load balancing, or failover features. VMware has its own default Multipathing plugin called the Native Multipathing Plugin (NMP):

Since, third party plugins are beyond the scope of this book, we will delve deeper into the components and functions of VMware NMP.
Every storage device detected by the ESXi host will be associated with a Multipathing ...
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