Should one use MPIO and/or CSV in a Windows 2012 R2 guest cluster using VMware ESXi 5.5 presented Fiber LUN RDMs.
If MPIO were implemented is there a preference for HW manufacturer DISM vs. MS DISM in a guest cluster?
What partition size/offset is recommended for the MSR partition (currently set to 1000 MB) - unfortunately seeing storage validation error with failing block write at block 2048 (which in return may be related to VMware ESXi 5.5. disk partition layout)
The current setup works without using MPIO (question is would it help overcome the current failing persistent SCSI-3 reservation warning.)
What were the benefit of using CSV if any in a guest cluster? The Luns in scope would eventually hold SQL data and log files.
Thanks for your input already.
Sassan Karai