SAN Volume Controller: Best Practices and Performance Guidelines
by Jon Tate, Deon George, Thorsten Hoss, Ronda Hruby, Ian MacQuarrie, Barry Mellish, Peter Mescher
Chapter 10.5.4. Windows
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Chapter 10. Hosts 193 For rootvg, the supported method is a mksysb and an install, or savevg and restvg for non- rootvg. 10.5.4 Windows There are two options of multipathing drivers released for Windows 2003 Server hosts. Windows 2003 Server device driver development has concentrated on the storport. sys driver. This driver has significant interoperability differences from the older scsiport driver set. Additionally, Windows has released a native multipathing I/ O option with a storage specific plug- in. SDDDSM was designed to support these newer methods of interfacing with Windows 2003 Server. In order to release new enhancements more quickly, the newer hardware architectures ( 64- bit EMT and so forth) are only ...
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