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Addition or Deletion of a Shared FC Adapter to the activated LPAR

It is not possible to add or delete a shared FC adapter to the activated LPAR.

To change the configuration of a shared FC adapter, all LPARs have to be

deactivated. Changing the configuration of a shared FC adapter may take a few

Therefore, it is recommended that you set the configuration of the shared FC

adapter before you activate LPARs.

Communication in the event of a failure in the shared FC adapter

If a failure occurs in a shared FC adapter, all the LPARs sharing the failed

physical FC adapter will become unable to use it to communicate.

Detection of the unallocated FC ports by guest OSs (when the FC Port is

assigned respectively to an LPAR)

With the shared FC function, you can use a 2-port FC adapter such that you

allocate only one port of it to a LPAR but do not allocate another port to any

LPARs. When you boot a guest OS on such LPAR, the guest OS may detect

the unallocated port as follows, but the OS activity will not be affected.

Microsoft Windows:

SCSI described as "Unassigned Hitachi Shared FC Device" and a RAID

controller device can be seen from the device manager.

By inputting the lspci command, the following device is informed (the head

"bb:dd.f" may be different depending on the PCI slot location).

bb:dd.f Fibre Channel: Hitachi, Ltd: Unknown device 3017

Port in the FC Shared function

In the FC shared function, the LPAR manager FC shared management port logs in

the FC switch using the virtual WWPN (2300000087xxxxxx) vfcID=0.

Therefore, the port of the FC switch connected to the FC shared port can see the

log-in status of by the virtual WWPN vfcID=0 as well as the WWPN used on the

Virtual NIC Function Specifications

 Relative slot numbers

Relative slot numbers are uniquely defined in each system configuration.

The following figure shows slot locations on each unit.

I/O adapter slot number

Server blade (Rear)

I/O slot expansion unit (Rear)

Server blade number

I/O board module slot number

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