Using Fibre Channel Npiv Technology - Key Conclusions - Qlogic Fibre Channel NPIV Storage Networking Guide Manual

Using Fibre Channel NPIV Technology — Key
Conclusions
This section effectively demonstrates the core benefits of deploying Fibre
Channel NPIV technology with Windows Server 2008 R2 and SC VMM2008 R2.
These benefits include:

Workload isolation and security, consistent with enterprise storage best
practices, is achieved by mapping/presenting the LUN containing the VM to
a virtual host bus adapter port.

IT agility is achieved by enabling on-demand VM migrations without the
need for SAN re-zoning. When multiple host servers are deployed in a
SAN, the VM can be migrated to any of these destinations.

Quick migration is achieved by migrating the virtual host bus adapter port
instead of moving the VM's bits. The smaller amount of metadata
transferred results in a less than one-minute (59 seconds) VM migration.

Solution scalability is delivered by creating multiple virtual host bus
adapter ports on a single Fibre Channel adapter and assigning them to
each VM workload. QLogic adapters can currently enable scaling of up to
15 virtualized workloads through the creation of NPIV ports on a single host
bus adapter.
4-VMM2008 R2 Setup, VM Creation, and NPIV SAN Migration
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