Process-based load balancing and failover policy implementation in storage multi-path layer of host device

Abstract

An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices. The host device includes a set of input-output queues and a multi-path input-output driver configured to select input-output operations from the set of input-output queues for delivery to the storage system. The multi-path input-output driver is further configured to detect at least first and second input-output operations from respective ones of at least first and second different processes executing on the host device, to assign a first policy identifier to the first input-output operation from the first process, and to assign a second policy identifier different than the first policy identifier to the second input-output operation from the second process. The input-output operations are queued in different ones of the queues of the set of input-output queues based at least in part on their respective assigned policy identifiers.