Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 144)

OneCommand™ Manager Application P010066-01A Rev. A
8. Managing Adapters and Ports
FC/FCoE
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9. Reboot the system for the changes to take effect. After rebooting, the changes are
applied and appear in the Current section of the Maintenance dialog box.
Creating and Deleting FC/FCoE Virtual Ports
Creating Virtual Ports
The OneCommand Manager application can automatically generate the WWPN for the
virtual port based on the WWPN for the physical port or you can manually type the
WWPN. You cannot generate virtual ports on 1 Gb/s and 2 Gb/s adapters.
Note: Neither the OneCommand Manager application nor the hbacmd utility can be
used to create or delete virtual ports on any VMware ESXi server. Whereas
VMware ESXi server supports NPIV, only VMware management tools can be
used to create and delete virtual ports.
Note: In Linux, virtual ports do not persist across system reboots.
The NPIV driver parameter must be enabled before attempting to create a virtual port.
The driver parameter name varies slightly depending upon your operating system:
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For Windows: enableNPIV. On the Storport Miniport system, the SLIMode
driver parameter must also be set to 0 or 3.
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For Solaris: enable-npiv
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For Linux 8.2: lpfc_enable_npiv
See “Configuring FC/FCoE Driver Parameters” on page 149 for more information on
enabling driver parameters.
To create a virtual port:
1. Do one of the following:
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From the View menu, select Group Adapters by Virtual Ports.
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From the toolbar, click Group Adapters by Virtual Ports.