Product specifications

5-QLogic Management PRO Pack and NPIV Technology
PRO Pack Benefits with NPIV Deployments
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 Dynamic and automated IT agility
 Single glass pane storage I/O resource management
PRO Pack Benefits with NPIV Deployments
Using NPIV technology for the deployment scenario outlined in PRO Pack
Benefits delivers advantages above and beyond what is listed in this document.
Data center administrators should consider deploying multiple Hyper-V
workloads using a virtual (NPIV) Fibre Channel adapter port for each workload.
Specific additional benefits with NPIV technology include:
 Granular performance utilization view. The administrator can easily see
which VM workload is consuming the link bandwidth.
 Security/isolation. I/O from virtual ports is restricted/isolated to the LUNs
to which they are masked. In the case of a physical port, each port has
access to all LUNs (must LUN mask to all ports).
 Quality of service (QoS). Using the port‘s NPIV ID as the proxy for each
virtualized workload increases the QoS per VM on the virtual port.
NOTE:
If the VM contains only one application/workload/function, then the
security/isolation benefit also translates to application isolation.