SDD dynamic pathing on hosts running the Microsoft Hyper-V operating systems

The subsystem device driver (SDD) for Windows® supports dynamic pathing for hosts that are running the Microsoft® Hyper-V operating system.

Notes:
  1. SDD is not supported on all operating systems. See the following Web site for the latest support information:

    www.ibm.com/storage/support/2145

  2. When you use SDD for multipathing, you must use a supported Emulex HBA driver or QLogic HBA driver. See the following Web site for the latest support information:

    www.ibm.com/storage/support/2145

  3. The SDD driver can coexist on a host running the Windows 2000 Server operating system with the IBM® DS4000® (FAStT) Redundant Dual Active Controller (RDAC) or IBM DS5000 drivers. Coexistence is not supported on hosts that run the Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 operating systems.

SDD supports dynamic pathing when you add more paths to an existing VDisk and when you present a new VDisk to the host. No user intervention is required, other than what is normal for a new device discovery under the Windows operating system.

SDD uses a load-balancing policy and tries to equalize the load across all preferred paths. If preferred paths are available, SDD uses the path that has the least I/O at the time. If SDD finds no available preferred paths, it tries to balance the load across all the paths that it does find and uses the least-active nonpreferred path.

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