SFHA Solutions support N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) in IBM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments:
The VIOS is configured with NPIV capable Fibre Channel (FC) adapters that are connected to a SAN switch that is NPIV capable.
The LUNs mapped to the VIO client behave like an LPAR with a dedicated FC adapter.
The devices in the VIO client appear as regular SCSI disks, which Storage Foundation can access. Unlike in the classic VIO environment without NPIV, Storage Foundation treats these devices as if they came from a regular SAN storage array.
With NPIV, the VIO client environment is transparent to Storage Foundation. All of the Storage Foundation commands would have the same output as in a regular physical AIX server.
You can create and import disk groups on NPIV devices, which provide access to volumes and file systems.
Symantec has qualified NPIV support with Storage Foundation.
Symantec has also qualified migration of storage used by Storage Foundation from the AIX physical server environment to the IBM VIO environment.
Table: Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions NPIV support
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