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Log Off a Volume With Multipath I/O on Variants of Windows Operating Systems To log off a volume with multiple connections when using other Windows variants, you must select and log out of each connection session as follows: 1. Click the Targets tab, select the target, then click Details. The Target Properties dialog box opens. 2. Click the Sessions tab. 3. Select all sessions and click LogOff. If you see a message warning you that a device is in use, wait a few seconds, click the Refresh button, and then repeat step 3. View MPIO Sessions The status of the MPIO DSM is logged for display in the MPIO tab of the iSCSI Initiator Properties page. The Properties page opens when you double-click the Initiator icon, or when you launch the Initiator interface from the control panel. The status tab provides: • Details of the NIC or HBA adapters present in the system, identifying which adapters support MPIO • Status of MPIO sessions and paths. Data is stored in a cumulative log file at: installation_path\EqualLogic\Logs\ehcm.log. When the current log file is full, the logger renames it to ehcm0.log and deletes the previous log. Only one previous log file is retained. To adjust the length of history stored, you can change the size of the log file by modifying the Windows registry entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Equallogic\EHCM. The following limits (in MB) apply to the XMLLogsize registry key: • Default-10 • Minimum-1 • Maximum-50 The ehcm.log file provides data for a custom MPIO properties tab in the iSCSI initiator properties pages (shown in the following figure). When you launch the initiator properties, it might take up to a minute to load data from the log. Using the Multipath I/O Component 39

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Log Off a Volume With Multipath I/O on Variants of
Windows Operating Systems
To log off a volume with multiple connections when using other Windows variants, you must select and log out of each connection session
as follows:
1.
Click the
Targets
tab, select the target, then click
Details
. The Target Properties dialog box opens.
2.
Click the
Sessions
tab.
3.
Select all sessions and click
LogOff
.
If you see a message warning you that a device is in use, wait a few seconds, click the
Refresh
button, and then repeat step 3.
View MPIO Sessions
The status of the MPIO DSM is logged for display in the MPIO tab of the
iSCSI Initiator Properties
page. The
Properties
page opens when
you double-click the
Initiator
icon, or when you launch the Initiator interface from the control panel.
The status tab provides:
•
Details of the NIC or HBA adapters present in the system, identifying which adapters support MPIO
•
Status of MPIO sessions and paths.
Data is stored in a cumulative log file at:
installation_path
\EqualLogic\Logs\ehcm.log
. When the current log file is full, the
logger renames it to
ehcm0.log
and deletes the previous log. Only one previous log file is retained.
To adjust the length of history stored, you can change the size of the log file by modifying the Windows registry entry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Equallogic\EHCM
.
The following limits (in MB) apply to the XMLLogsize registry key:
•
Default—10
•
Minimum—1
•
Maximum—50
The
ehcm.log
file provides data for a custom MPIO properties tab in the iSCSI initiator properties pages (shown in the following figure).
When you launch the initiator properties, it might take up to a minute to load data from the log.
Using the Multipath I/O Component
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