How to Setup DM-Multipath on RHEL / CentOS / Fedora

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Pradeep Kumar
Jul 16, 2014

DM-Multipath stands for Device mapper multipathing. It allows us to configure multiple I/O paths between server and storage arrays into a single device. These I/O paths are physical SAN connections that can include separate cables, switches, and controllers.

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Pradeep Kumar

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