Creating and deleting fc/fcoe virtual ports, Creating virtual ports – Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual

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OneCommand™ Manager Application

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8. Managing Adapters and Ports

FC/FCoE

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9. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. After rebooting, the changes are

applied and appear in the Current section of the Maintenance dialog box.

Creating and Deleting FC/FCoE Virtual Ports

Creating Virtual Ports

The OneCommand Manager application can automatically generate the WWPN for the

virtual port based on the WWPN for the physical port or you can manually type the

WWPN. You cannot generate virtual ports on 1 Gb/s and 2 Gb/s adapters.

Note: Neither the OneCommand Manager application nor the hbacmd utility can be

used to create or delete virtual ports on any VMware ESXi server. Whereas

VMware ESXi server supports NPIV, only VMware management tools can be

used to create and delete virtual ports.

Note: In Linux, virtual ports do not persist across system reboots.

The NPIV driver parameter must be enabled before attempting to create a virtual port.

The driver parameter name varies slightly depending upon your operating system:

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For Windows: enableNPIV. On the Storport Miniport system, the SLIMode

driver parameter must also be set to 0 or 3.

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For Solaris: enable-npiv

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For Linux 8.2: lpfc_enable_npiv

enabling driver parameters.
To create a virtual port:
1. Do one of the following:

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From the View menu, select Group Adapters by Virtual Ports.

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From the toolbar, click

Group Adapters by Virtual Ports.