Product specifications

6-Hyper-V Pass-Through Storage and QLogic Fibre Channel NPIV Technology
Configuration
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The combination of QLogic Fibre Channel adapters (with NPIV technology) and
Hyper-V‘s pass-through disk option deliver the following benefits:
 Application isolation, consistent with storage best practices, when the VM
runs a single application.
 Near-native storage I/O performance for virtual machine workloads. (See
http://www.qlogic.com/promos/products/hyper-v.aspx for more details.)
 The ability to configure storage I/O quality of service (QoS), by bandwidth
or priority, for each VM workload. This benefit is achieved when an NPIV
configuration is used with pass-through storage to mask the VM LUN and
the storage LUN.
Configuration
Figure 6-1 is one example of how to deploy Hyper-V pass-through storage using
QLogic‘s NPIV-enabled Fibre Channel adapter.
The deployment describes two Fibre Channel SAN (LUN) based virtual
machines, masked to two virtual (NPIV) adapter ports. In addition, two SAN
storage LUNs are configured as pass-through storage, one for each virtual
machine workload. The same virtual host bus adapter port associated with each
VM also connects the VM to its corresponding storage LUN.
Figure 6-1. Hyper-V Pass-Through Storage SAN Topology