aaaaaahhh yeahhhh..... a dark corner of memory gets its first ray of light
in a while....

V7000 and other storwize related products ( SVC, FS9xxx ) now do NPIV on
the storage side by default if you are doing a new install. You have to
explicitly enable it if you are upgrading from older versions.

Ostensibly this feature is there to enable easier storage migrations down
the line, since the WWPN you're configuring into the SAN zone and on the
operating system side is now virtual. It is supposed to make switching the
physical storage box out from under the running OS by using box managed
copy services like metro-mirror easier and more automate-able without
having to take a planned outage.

This obviously also requires a SAN switch for it to work since it uses NPIV.

--
Jay Brenneman

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