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Fibre Channel NPIV Storage Networking for Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and System
Center VMM2008 R2─Usage Scenarios and Best Practices Guide
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Part II
Resolving Fibre Channel Adapter Saturation on Hyper Workloads
5 QLogic Management PRO Pack and NPIV Technology
Overview ........................................................................................... 5-1
Solution ............................................................................................. 5-1
PRO Pack Benefits............................................................................ 5-3
PRO Pack Benefits with NPIV Deployments...................................... 5-4
Part III
Using the Hyper-V Pass-through Disk Option
6 Hyper-V Pass-Through Storage and QLogic Fibre Channel NPIV
Technology
Overview ........................................................................................... 6-1
Configuration ..................................................................................... 6-2
Configuration Steps ........................................................................... 6-3
Viewing and Managing Storage I/O Quality of Service ...................... 6-9
Summary and Conclusions................................................................ 14
List of Figures
Figure Page
1-1. N_Port ID Virtualization ......................................................................................... 1-4
1-2. How to Enable SAN Migration ............................................................................... 1-7
2-1. NPIV SAN Quick Migration Configuration Example ............................................... 2-3
2-2. Hyper-V Host Server Joined to Domain hypernpiv.com ......................................... 2-4
2-3. Roles Installed in Each Hyper-V Host Server......................................................... 2-5
2-4. Details of the Hyper-V Role ................................................................................... 2-6
2-5. Features Installed in Each Hyper-V Host Server .................................................... 2-7
2-6. MPIO Properties .................................................................................................... 2-8
3-1. SANsurfer View of Virtual Host Bus Adapter Port .................................................. 3-2
3-2. Hyper-V Host Servers in a Single Fibre Channel Zone .......................................... 3-3
3-3. Mapping a LUN to the Host ................................................................................... 3-4
3-4. LUN Mapped to Host ............................................................................................. 3-5
3-5. LUN and Host Mapping: Storage Manager for SANs View .................................... 3-6
4-1. Hosts Added to VMM2008 R2 ............................................................................... 4-2
4-2. Select Source ........................................................................................................ 4-3
4-3. Virtual Machine Identity ......................................................................................... 4-4
4-4. ConHardware ........................................................................................................ 4-5
4-5. Select Destination.................................................................................................. 4-6
4-6. Select Path ............................................................................................................ 4-7