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Virtual Host Bus Adapters (vHBAs)
The Oracle virtual Host Bus Adapter (vHBA) virtualizes HBA connectivity. It
appears to the OS as a physical HBA and enables a server to have a Fibre Channel
(FC) SAN attachment without having a physical HBA present. Instead of the host
server using an HBA, an InfiniBand (IB) HCA is used which then virtualizes the
HBA allowing for SAN connectivity.
This chapter explains how to configure vHBAs in the following sections:
■ “vHBA Topology” on page 134
■ “Basic vHBA Configuration” on page 136
■ “Persistent Binding” on page 142
■ “Target Prescan and Rescan” on page 146
■ “Set FC Card Attributes” on page 151
■ “Set FC Port Attributes” on page 153
■ “Removing vHBAs” on page 158
■ “vHBA Statistics” on page 167
■ “Fibre Channel Monitoring” on page 168
■ “LUN Masking” on page 169
■ “Optional LUN Masking: No Report LUN Interception” on page 174
■ “Change Port Topology from Fabric to Loop” on page 176
Virtual HBAs, like most objects in the Oracle Fabric Interconnect, have “Naming
Conventions” on page 8.