HP 3PAR VMware ESX Implementation Guide

Port type : FC
Bandwidth : 8 Gbps
IOC state : operational
PWWN : 10:00:00:05:1e:dc:f3:2f
NWWN : 20:00:00:05:1e:dc:f3:2f
Path TOV : 14 seconds
Portlog : Enabled
IO Profile : Off
Interrupt coalescing : on
Interrupt delay : 0 us
Interrupt latency : 0 us
Installing Virtual Machine Guest Operating System
The VMware ESX host documentation provides a list of recommended virtual machine guest
operating systems (GOS) with their installation and setup as virtual machines (VMs). See the
VMware ESX host documentation for information on setting up your virtual machine configuration.
CAUTION: In VMware KB 51306, VMware identifies a problem with RHEL 5 (GA), RHEL 4 U4,
RHEL 4 U3, SLES 10 (GA), and SLES 9 SP3 guest operating systems. Their file systems may become
read-only in the event of busy I/O retry or path failover of the ESX host’s SAN or iSCSI storage.
For more information, KB 51306 is available on the VMware Knowledge Base website: VMware
HP does not recommend and does not support RHEL 5 (GA), RHEL 4 U4, RHEL 4 U3, SLES 10
(GA), and SLES 9 SP3 as guest operating systems for virtual machines on VMware ESX hosts
attached to HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems.
CAUTION: HP does not recommend and does not support the use of the N-Port ID Virtualization
(NPIV) feature that allows virtual ports/WWNs to be assigned to individual virtual machines and
was introduced with VMware ESX 3.5 - 5.0.
38 Configuring the Host for a Fibre Channel Connection