The addition of virtual Fibre Channel is a great feature for organizations that have a
Fibre Channel–centric storage strategy, and Microsoft made great efforts to provide a
flexible while secure implementation, enabling full Live Migration compatibility
without giving the Hyper-V hosts themselves access. There are still more
considerations. As with iSCSI, a backup taken at the Hyper-V host will not back up any
data stored on the SAN storage. To use virtual Fibre Channel, you must have a guest
operating system that is Windows Server 2008 or above and the latest version of
Hyper-V Integration Services must be installed. At the time of this writing, virtual
Fibre Channel does not work with Linux guest operating systems. Hyper-V Replica
cannot be used with a virtual machine that has vFCAs. Also, as with iSCSI, to use
virtual Fibre Channel, the virtual machines need to have knowledge of the storage
fabric, which is not desirable in many scenarios, especially those hoster scenarios.
romina
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