I am setting up UCS blades for our ESXi 5.0 hosts. I currently have 4 ports plugged in to the UCS from our VNX (2 from SPA and 2 from SPB). I have defined the service profile on the blade to allow for 4 vHBAs. This gives me 8 paths to each LUNs. When I look at the paths available I see all 8 but only 4 are "Active (I/O)" (going to 2 specific ports on the VNX) and the rest are just "Active" (going to the remaining 2 ports on my VNX). If not all the ports to the VNX are going to be used would I be better off just configuring 2 vHBAs? I'm thinking that if I do then I'll have 4 paths but only 2 will show "Active (I/O)". This isn't what I want. I'm thinking that my current configuration will give me the best redundancy in case of any failure. Am I off base?
Thanks.