Introduction to using Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware

Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware 6.2 (VxDMP) is a multi-pathing solution integrated with VMware's vSphere infrastructure, which brings the established and proven enterprise-class functionality to VMware virtual environments.

VxDMP provides multi-pathing functionality for the devices that are configured on the system. VxDMP creates VxDMP metadevices (also known as VxDMP nodes) to represent all the device paths to the same physical LUN.

VxDMP provides the best in class availability, reliability, and performance by using advanced path failover and load balancing for a wide range of storage arrays. VxDMP also helps in gaining better visibility of a storage, and in managing it better.

VxDMP is installed in the ESXi host. VxDMP performs storage multi-pathing at the ESX Hypervisor layer.

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VxDMP is referred as DMP in some sections of this document.