Server Administrator tasks

This section describes server administrator tasks while you configure N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV).

Procedure

Ensure that your virtual machine is turned off when you complete the following steps:

  1. Add an RDM disk to the virtual machine.
  2. Enable NPIV with the vSphere client by assigning virtual WWPNs.
  3. Record the Node WWN and the Port WWNs. Give this information to the storage administrator so that the administrator can zone and LUN-mask the back-end storage.
  4. After the storage administrator completes zoning and configuration of the storage, you can safely turn on the VM.