Hi,
As of now its not Supported.
The following requirements exist:
■ | NPIV can be used only for virtual machines with RDM disks. Virtual machines with regular virtual disks use the WWNs of the host’s physical HBAs. |
■ | HBAs on your host must support NPIV. For information, see the vSphere Compatibility Guide and refer to you vendor documentation. ■ | Use HBAs of the same type, either all QLogic or all Emulex. VMware does not support heterogeneous HBAs on the same host accessing the same LUNs. | ■ | If a host uses multiple physical HBAs as paths to the storage, zone all physical paths to the virtual machine. This is required to support multipathing even though only one path at a time will be active. | ■ | Make sure that physical HBAs on the host have access to all LUNs that are to be accessed by NPIV-enabled virtual machines running on that host. |
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■ | The switches in the fabric must be NPIV-aware. |
■ | When configuring a LUN for NPIV access at the storage level, make sure that the NPIV LUN number and NPIV target ID match the physical LUN and Target ID. |
■ | Use the vSphere Client to manipulate virtual machines with WWNs. |
ESXi with NPIV supports the following items:
■ | NPIV supports vMotion. When you use vMotion to migrate a virtual machine it retains the assigned WWN. If you migrate an NPIV-enabled virtual machine to a host that does not support NPIV, VMkernel reverts to using a physical HBA to route the I/O. |
■ | If your FC SAN environment supports concurrent I/O on the disks from an active-active array, the concurrent I/O to two different NPIV ports is also supported. |
When you use ESXi with NPIV, the following limitations apply:
■ | Because the NPIV technology is an extension to the FC protocol, it requires an FC switch and does not work on the direct attached FC disks. |
■ | When you clone a virtual machine or template with a WWN assigned to it, the clones do not retain the WWN. |
■ | NPIV does not support Storage vMotion. |
■ | Disabling and then re-enabling the NPIV capability on an FC switch while virtual machines are running can cause an FC link to fail and I/O to stop. |
Please do check for better clarity http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-A9503E...
Cheers,
Sree | VCIX-5X| VCAP-5X| VExpert 7x|Cisco Certified Specialist
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