Jason Boche of boche.net comments:
Several years ago, one of the first blog posts that I tackled was working in the lab with N_Port ID Virtualization often referred to as NPIV for short. The blog post was titled N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) and VMware Virtual Infrastructure. At the time it was one of the few blog posts available on the subject because it was a relatively new feature offered by VMware. Over the years that followed, I haven’t heard much in terms of trending adoption rates by customers. Likewise, VMware hasn’t put much effort into improving NPIV support in vSphere or promoting its use. One might contemplate, which is the cause and which is the effect. I feel it’s a mutual agreement between both parties that NPIV in its current state isn’t exciting enough to deploy and the benefits fall into a very narrow band of interest (VMware: Give us in guest virtual Fibre Channel – that would be interesting).
Sometimes even when you’ve done everything by the book there are issues with configurations. Jason helps out by giving you a few more places to look when things aren’t going right.
Read more at: A Common NPIV Problem with a Solution
