Adding host on VMM causes warning Multipath I/O not enabled for known storage arrays on host x.x.x.x

Adding host on VMM causes warning Multipath I/O not enabled for known storage arrays on host x.x.x.x

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Installing host agent and configure it on VMM error

When you try to add a new host to the VMM , you get the following warning:

Warning (26179)

Multipath I/O not enabled for known storage arrays on host x.x.x.x

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Resolution:

In order to resolve this problem, you will have to install two features on the host machine.

To do so, run Windows Powershell as admin

Run the following Cmdlets then

Import-Module ServerManager

Add-WindowsFeature Multipath-IO

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Once the command is finished it’s recommended to restart the server.

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