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paths and it’s a good idea to check with the supplier of the iSCSI solution
on the availability of such a module to fit inside MPIO. With earlier ver-
sions of the Windows Server operating system, the iSCSI target vendor
should provide you with a multi-path management solution that ensures
load balancing and path failover.
Configuring iSCSI in clusters
It is possible with Windows Server 2003 SP1 to use the Microsoft iSCSI
software initiator in a clustered configuration. Although this simplifies the
infrastructure requirements when constructing clusters, you should not
assume that you can build clusters wherever ...