Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 146)

OneCommand™ Manager Application P010066-01A Rev. A
8. Managing Adapters and Ports
FC/FCoE
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Note: Ensure that a manually entered WWPN is unique to your particular
SAN. Failure to do so could result in a non-functioning SAN and data
loss.
4. Enter an optional name for the virtual port if you want. You can give the new
virtual port any name you want up to 99 characters in length. This name is used as
part of the Symbolic Node Name for the VPort.
5. Click Create Virtual Port. A dialog box appears notifying you that the virtual port
was created. The dialog box also displays the new virtual port's WWPN. Each
virtual port has its own WWPN, but its WWNN is the same as the physical port's
WWNN.
Note: If you entered a WWPN that is already in use, you are prompted to enter
another WWPN.
6. Click OK. The new virtual port is added to the discovery-tree under the physical
port where it was created and the Number of Virtual Ports field is updated.
Note: The OneCommand Manager application automatically refreshes its
discovery after a virtual port is created. However, targets for a new virtual
port may not be discovered during the refresh. Therefore, you must refresh
the discovery until the targets appear under the virtual port in the
discovery-tree.
Deleting Virtual Ports
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.
To delete a virtual port:
1. Do one of the following:

From the View menu, select Group Adapters by Virtual Ports.

From the toolbar, click Group Adapters by Virtual Ports.