June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
9h 9m
English
New in VMM 2012 R2, Synthetic Fibre Channel adds support for Guest Fibre Channel in Hyper-V.
The new VMM feature, which makes use of the SMI-S provider, allows you to assign a Virtual Fibre Channel Adapter in the guest VM with cut down zone management.
Virtual Fibre Channel supports single/multiple storage arrays connected to single/multiple fabrics.
Multiple storage arrays connected to multiple fabrics would provide dual-redundant paths to storage arrays.
To be able to use Virtual Fibre Channel, confirm that the following are in place: