Microsoft has released a paper titled: "Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Design Guide". The paper which contains 16 pages provides design guidelines for customers who want to implement the Virtual Fibre Channel feature within Hyper-V VMs. Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V provides the guest operating system with unmediated access to a SAN by using a standard World Wide Name (WWN) associated with a virtual machine.
The paper contains the following sections:
- Overview
- Virtual Fibre Channel Pre-req’s
- Terms and definitions
- Configuration Options
- Single Fabric
- Multi-Fabric Multi-vSAN
- Multi-Fabric Single vSAN
- Multi-Fabric Multi-vSAN Multi-Port
- Multi-Fabric Multi-vSAN Multi-Array
- Design Guidance