Assign FC to IVM Guest

[booseng]

I have 4 fibre card on HP-UX 11.31 host and there are 3 IVM guest running. Possble to assign three fibre card as a resource to each IVM guest and left one for the IVM host ?   

[Dave Olker]

Depends.  Which version of HP-UX 11i v3 are you running (i.e. which Fusion release?)  Which version of HPVM are you running?  What kind of FC adapters are they?  Do you know if they support NPIV?

Dave

[booseng]

# fcmsutil /dev/fcd3

Vendor ID is = 0x1077
Device ID is = 0x2312
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x103C
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x12C7
PCI Mode = PCI-X 133 MHz
ISP Code version = 3.3.175
ISP Chip version = 3
Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
Link Speed = 2Gb
Local N_Port_id is = 0x010900
Previous N_Port_id is = None
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b0000c9ba0b
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b0000c9ba0a
Switch Port World Wide Name = 0x200900051e0462d7
Switch Node World Wide Name = 0x100000051e0462d7
N_Port Symbolic Port Name = nPar2_fcd3
N_Port Symbolic Node Name = nPar2_HP-UX_B.11.31
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 1/0/6/1/0/4/0
Maximum Frame Size = 2048
Driver-Firmware Dump Available = NO
Driver-Firmware Dump Timestamp = N/A
Driver Version = @(#) fcd B.11.31.0909 Jun 8 2009

# fcmsutil /dev/fcd1

Vendor ID is = 0x1077
Device ID is = 0x2312
PCI Sub-system Vendor ID is = 0x103C
PCI Sub-system ID is = 0x12C7
PCI Mode = PCI-X 133 MHz
ISP Code version = 3.3.175
ISP Chip version = 3
Topology = PTTOPT_FABRIC
Link Speed = 2Gb
Local N_Port_id is = 0x010a00
Previous N_Port_id is = None
N_Port Node World Wide Name = 0x50060b0000c9c07b
N_Port Port World Wide Name = 0x50060b0000c9c07a
Switch Port World Wide Name = 0x200a00051e0462d7
Switch Node World Wide Name = 0x100000051e0462d7
N_Port Symbolic Port Name = nPar2_fcd1
N_Port Symbolic Node Name = nPar2_HP-UX_B.11.31
Driver state = ONLINE
Hardware Path is = 1/0/2/1/0/4/0
Maximum Frame Size = 2048
Driver-Firmware Dump Available = NO
Driver-Firmware Dump Timestamp = N/A
Driver Version = @(#) fcd B.11.31.0909 Jun 8 2009

Looks like it is not NPIV supported.

[Dave Olker]

Then you're left with the legacy AVIO storage presentation.  That still doesn't mean you can't do what you originally wanted.  If you have 4 FC ports and you want to use 3 of them for VM Guest storage and one for VM Host storage, simply present the VM Guest storage to 3 of the 4 FC port WWNs at the SAN/Switch layer and present any VM Host storage to the 4th FC port.

Dave