About the multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment

Last published : Jun 19, 2026
The support for multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment lets you discover information that is related to the disk multi-pathing for the ESX servers in your data center. It lets you manage disk paths under VxDMP on the ESX servers. It is enabled using Control Host Add-on. For each disk, you can discover the following information:
  • Total number of paths, and number of active paths.
  • The details about the path.
  • The information about the multi-pathing applications. The multi-pathing applications can be VMware native multi-pathing (NMP), EMC PowerPath/Virtual Edition, or Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) for VMware.
When DMP for VMware is the multi-pathing solution, you can enable or disable the disk paths using the DMP maintenance wizard using the InfoScale Operations Manager console.
Note: You can also generate the report containing the details about the DMP licenses that are installed on the VMware ESX servers. The license discovery is also enabled using Control Host Add-on.
See About the user privileges for multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment.