Multipathing configuration maximums

When you configure multipathing on your hosts, you must consider the maximum supported configuration limits.

Table 1 provides the configuration maximums for hosts that run a Microsoft Windows Server operating system.
Note: Check your operating system and HBA documentation for limitations that might be imposed by other driver software.
Table 1. Maximum multipathing configurations
Object Maximum Description
Volume 512 (see Note 1). The maximum number of volumes that can be supported by the system for a host that runs a Windows operating system (per host object).
Paths per volume (see Note 2). 8 The maximum number of paths to each volume. The recommended number of paths is four.
Notes:
  1. You can assign a maximum of 26 individual drive letters to a host that runs a Windows™ operating system. However, a Windows Server operating system supports submounting drives as directories within other drives.
  2. SDDDSM for Windows supports 16 paths per volume, but the system supports only a maximum of eight paths to support a reasonable path-failover time.