Vipr Export Group creation at two VPLEX Clusters in a Metro configruation

Hello experts,

Looking for some guidance.

Out of 4 hosts in a VMware Esxi Cluster, two hosts are connected to VPLEX Cluster 1 and other two hosts are connected to VPLEX Cluster 2 in a VPLEX Metro environment. Customer don't want to zone hosts to remote VPLEX due to bandwidth issues. When I tried ViPR Virtual array with automatic zoning and Virtual pool enabled with Cross connect, ViPR creating zoning between hosts and remote VPLEX. Different HLU number assigned in each VPLEX cluster storage View on a datastore creation order.

I noticed the below statement from "Vipr 3.6 - Ingest Services for Existing Environments Guide rev 2" would like to confirm "Some connectivity to both VPLEX clusters exists within the cluster of hosts". Can someone help me to understand connectivity requirement from cluster hosts to each VPLEX cluster?

From document:

"A cluster of hosts must have a subset of initiators connected to each VPLEX cluster for successful ingestion of any cross-connected export configuration. However, a host or a subset of hosts can have all their initiators exclusively connected to one VPLEX cluster or the other, as long as some connectivity to both VPLEX clusters exists within the cluster of hosts. Additionally, the existing connectivity must satisfy the SAN multipath constraints of the virtual pool the user has selected for ingestion "

EMC ViPR Controller

Version 3.6

Ingest Services for Existing Environments Guide

302-003-714

REV 02