Multipathing configuration maximums for hosts that run Microsoft Hyper-V operating systems

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 the Microsoft Hyper-V operating system.
Note: Check your operating system and HBA documentation for limitations that might be imposed by other driver software.
Table 1. Configuration maximums for hosts that run the Microsoft Hyper-V operating system
Object Maximum Description
Volume 5121 The maximum number of volumes that can be supported by the system for a host that is running the Microsoft Hyper-V operating system (per host object).
Paths per volume2 8 The maximum number of paths to each volume. The suggested 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, Windows Server 2008 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.