Powerpath/VE vs. NMP: Performance Optimization and Reliability

The EMC Solutions Center team recently published a white paper titled "EMC Performance Optimization for VMware Enabled by EMC PowerPath/VE", which includes discussion of architecture, test design/validation, test scenarios and results.

This white paper is an overview of the tested features and performance enhancing technologies of EMC PowerPath/VE.  The performance and reliability of PowerPath/VE are compared to the performance of VMware Native Multipathing (NMP) technology including the MRU (most recently used), fixed, and round-robin load balancing policies.

The white paper is available here.