RAfa is correct, and your assumptions are exactly right.  Supported guests are Windows 2008, 2008R2, and 2012. 

“Proper zoning” is very important.  There are two WWNs associated with each vHBA.  They must both be zoned to the same target.  If that is not done, it will work properly in production, but Live Migration will fail. 

More info here.

From: Novo, Rafael
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 9:18 AM
To: ElAsir, Zahi; mSpecialists
Subject: Re: Hyper-V - NPIV - VNX

We suport it.

Just for some naming adjustment:
- HBA should support NPIV
- FC Switch should support NPV

And I don't have top of my head all supported Guest OSes



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From: ElAsir, Zahi
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 09:03 AM
To: mSpecialists
Subject: Hyper-V - NPIV - VNX

Hi All,

My customer is asking if we support “Virtual Fibre Channel” on Windows Serer 2012 Hyper-V.

If I’m not mistaken, this is the same feature that allows a virtual server on VMware to get direct access to the LUN (RDM).

For this technology to function, the following pre-requisites must be met:

- The Physical host must be running Windows Server 2012

- The Physical HBA on the server must support virtual Fiber Channel (vFC) and it must be running the latest driver/firmware version

- The Storage network must support NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization). This is usually a configuration performed on the storage switch(es).

- Proper targeting/zoning must be performed, to allow a LUN on the SAN to be access by the VM’s WWPN

- The Virtual Machine must be running Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2012.

I have B series brocade switches which already support NPIV.

I just wanted to check if there are any considerations that we have to have from a Storage Perspective (VNX5300).

Thank you

Regards,

Zahi El Asir | Senior Systems Engineer

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