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46 multipathing displayed in the topology – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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Microsoft Windows 2003 hosts with Service Pack 1 and IBM TotalStorage DS6800 arrays do

not stitch properly as a result of the Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) appearing on the same disk.

The multipathing page returns the Windows SDD path as something similar to

"600507630efe01a80000000000001104:c0t0d0p3". This makes it difficult to match it up to

your SDD path names.

The following figure displays how the software detects multipathing for a server running VERITAS

Volume Manager. "MP" is displayed on the path of the redundant volumes.

Figure 46

Multipathing Displayed in the Topology

The topology extends the length of the screen. The second portion of the topology is provided by the

following figure.