Introduction to Virtual SAN Storage
Until the advent of Windows Server 2012 and Virtual Fibre Channel, one barrier stood in the way of migrating some of your existing workloads into the cloud, and that was the ability to access a Fibre Channel storage array from within a virtual machine. If you had a high-performance workload (for example, a Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse or an online transaction processing workload), you could pretty much guarantee that it was configured to use a Fibre Channel SAN, thus barring it from being a good candidate for cloud computing. As a result, you would have deferred from performing such a migration.
Virtual Fibre Channel removes this deployment blocking issue by providing Fibre Channel ports within ...
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