I would recommend the HIT over normal multipathing. 1. Easier to setup...way easier and it configures all the intricate iscsi settings. 2. If you have a pool of multiple members, it handles the iscsi "slicing/sessions" better than native.  We have seen a slight increase in performance (10-15%) 3. Easier to setup mount points and do volume management.  The native mapper uses generic names for your volumes mpath0, mpath1, etc..the HIT kit makes "friendly names" that match your volume names.  Also if you are doing raw volumes (without a partition), easier to expand online than with normal multipath. We started on RHEL 5 -> RHEL 7 and when the HIT was finally released for linux, we jumped on it. Also, if you need host initiated snapshots the HIT kit has the ability to do this with snapshot manager.  You cannot do this with native mpio tools.  Scott
Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum. We recently setup a RHEL 7.1 server and would like to setup multipath connections to our SAN. What are the pros/cons of using RHEL native multipath vs using the Dell HIT Kit for multipathing?
Hit Kit vs RHEL Native Multipath