Round Robin policy with only some HBAs?

We are moving from a Hitachi 9985 which is active/active to a HDS which is active/passive.

I was wondering if I have 4 hba and I have 2 go 1 controller and 2 to the other controller - I could somehow a repetition alternated to work only with each pair of HBA cards?

Or as I think about it, if the HDS supports ALUA, then I could simply put RR on each of them and the HDS should make what controller volume is too attached and the esx RR between 2 HBAs residing on the contoller?

Thank you!

Exactly the same way.  Stop thinking about it on a HBA level (because it's now how ESX think about it).

If you assign A LUN (if it has 2, 4 or 16 lanes) is accessible under the MRU PSP, it will be accessible using only the MRU.  If you REALLY want to force, find all your Compellant LUN and put them all to 'fixed' woth your chosen path as principal.

In it the security of round robin... order of operations is guaranteed by the Protocol, because each has a picture ID.  Like intellectual property, executives can come in a little messy and the table will manage it properly.

-Matt

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