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2V0-622D · Question #192

Which two components are part of storage I/O multipathing on ESXi? (Choose two.)

The correct answer is B. PSP D. SATP. ESXi's Native Multipathing Plugin (NMP) framework uses two pluggable components - SATP and PSP - to manage path health monitoring and path selection for storage devices.

Section 3 – Configure and Administer vSphere 6.5 Storage

Question

Which two components are part of storage I/O multipathing on ESXi? (Choose two.)

Options

  • AVASA
  • BPSP
  • CVAAO
  • DSATP

How the community answered

(28 responses)
  • A
    4% (1)
  • B
    86% (24)
  • C
    11% (3)

Why each option

ESXi's Native Multipathing Plugin (NMP) framework uses two pluggable components - SATP and PSP - to manage path health monitoring and path selection for storage devices.

AVASA

VASA (vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness) is a storage policy and capability reporting framework that allows arrays to advertise features to vCenter Server - it is not part of the host-level multipathing stack.

BPSPCorrect

PSP (Path Selection Plugin) is an NMP sub-component that determines which active physical path is chosen for each I/O operation, implementing policies such as Most Recently Used, Fixed, or Round Robin.

CVAAO

VAAO is not a defined VMware storage component - the related acronym is VAAI (vSphere APIs for Array Integration), which offloads specific storage operations to hardware but is separate from the multipathing framework.

DSATPCorrect

SATP (Storage Array Type Plugin) is an NMP sub-component that handles array-specific behavior including path state monitoring, failover detection, and issuing vendor-specific commands to a given storage array type.

Concept tested: ESXi Native Multipathing Plugin SATP and PSP components

Topics

#multipathing#PSP#SATP#NMP

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