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[Solved] Virtualizing the Fiber card (VFC) on P595
Hi,

We have a P595 machine with a dual port Fiber card per VIOs.

We have two VIOs in the box.

VIO1: ---> 2 port Fiber Card
VIO2: ---> 2 port Fiber Card

One port on each fiber card is utilized. Connected to SAN switches. We are getting all disks from SAN both for VIOs and LPARs.

Now we have connected our tape library to our SAN switches and from switches to our P595 box Fiber cards. We need to Virtualize the Fiber card in order to take backups.

----> Now if we Virtualize the fiber card then wouldnt it disturb the Fiber card on the machines? The disks comming from SAN would no longer be available. I found this link to do this:

NPIV Setup and Configuration to Virtualize Fibre-channel card on IBM p6 - AIX & System P Community

Regards,

---------- Post updated at 08:33 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:26 AM ----------

Well folks this is how its going to work.

If one port is free we can utilize it and no need to worry about the other port as the vfc that would be created would be mapped "manually" to the available fcs

Regards,
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