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MPIO on Nano Server

by on May.10, 2017, under Tech Stuff

After hunting around a little bit I found some great information on enabling and configuring MPIO on Nano Server. I figured, as always, I record down my thoughts here so I can reference them again later if needed and post it out publicly where it can be of some use to anyone wandering by. 

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General information on MPIO from TechNet: Multpath I/O Overview

To enable MPIO on Nano Server, execute the following over your remote powershell session: 

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName MultiPathIO

Once enabled your SAN disks will be presented as duplicates (just as they are with MPIO under Windows Server), so you’ll need to execute additional powershell in order to claim or manage disks. 

Thankfully, Microsoft has published a script for this which can be downloaded from here: MPIO on NanoServer

It’s straight forward and works as designed, which feels odd sometimes when talking about Microsoft. 🙂 


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