sweet - why was that so hard to find in the docs? Gees ...
Anyway, I notice that the option is greyed out for me. A couple follow-up questions:
1)These are DL380 G6 servers with EVA -supported FC adapters. I'd be hugely surprised if the storage does not support NPIV. I'll google it now, but any idea whether an ISP2532-based 8GB FC adapter (this is what shows in configuration/storage adapters) should be NPIV enabled? If so - why is the option greyed out?
2)The thing I am trying to accomplish is to expose the EVA controller to this VM so that I can install/run the Command View EVA (SAN management tool) on a VM. The HP docs say (see the below). Do you think that zoning using NPIV = virtualized SCSI mode, or VM Direct Path?
Thank you for chiming in - I was beginning to think that I was crazy for asking/trying to figure out how to do this, as I couldn't get responses or find anything in docs!
"If you use the VMware guest operating system, you must have a host running VMware
3.5 or later and a virtual machine connected to the VMware host running a supported
version of Windows (the guest operating system on the virtual machine). See your
operating system documentation for details about setting up a virtual machine. Installing,
upgrading, and removing HP P6000 Command View on a virtual machine is the same
as installing HP P6000 Command View on a management server (a physical machine).
When using the VMware guest operating system, two methods are supported:
– Virtualized SCSI Mode: With this method, only the active path to LUN 0 of a single
controller can be made visible to HP P6000 Command View on the virtual machine.
Virtualized SCSI Mode is enabled by default when you install HP P6000 Command
View 9.3 or later.
– VMDirectPath (PCI pass-through): Supported on HP P6000 Command View 9.3 or
later. See Table 4.0, HP software deployment options, in the HP P6000 Enterprise
Virtual Array Compatibility Reference for VMDirectPath hardware requirements. To
8 Preparation
configure VMDirectPath, see “Configuring VMDirectPath I/O for HP ProLiant Servers,”
which is available on the VMware website at:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1025641
NOTE: Although this technical note indicates that the VMDirectPath configuration
is experimental, HP and VMware have an agreement that this configuration is
supported."