facing issue in hyper v manager to manage the server and their cummunication.

Question

I have 2 physical server PowerEdge r450 and i installed window server 2022 core and install hyper v manager on window 11 to manage them. I am facing issue:

1: Cannot add the fibre channel

2: want to communication with 2server how can i do that.

3: how to add Virtual SAN Manage

Answer 1

Hi m sami,

Thanks for your post. Kindly see the following answers. In order to use Virtual Fibre Channel on Hyper-V, your deployment must have the following:

1. One or more installations of Windows Server 2012 or later with the Hyper-V role installed
2. A device with one or more Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and an updated HBA driver that supports Virtual Fibre Channel.
   1. HBA ports must also have a Fibre Channel topography that can support N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV), a maximum transfer size of at least 0.5 MB, and data transfers of at least 128 physical pages.
   2. The maximum transfer length of the adapter determines the LUN limit. For example, a maximum transfer length of 512k allows about 2,250 LUNs. You need to configure your LUNs and multi-storage paths to maintain these limits.
3. An NPIV-enabled Storage Area Network (SAN).
4. VMs that use Windows Server 2012 or later as their guest OS and can support virtual Fibre Channel adapters.
5. Storage accessible through Virtual Fibre Channel support devices that present logical units. Virtual Fibre Channel logical units can't be used as boot media.

Reference: Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel in Windows Server | Microsoft Learn

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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