How to migrate HP-UX workloads between physical and virtual servers easily

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The NPIV technology provides a unique and identical way for storage characterization in both physical and
virtual infrastructures, by allowing virtual machines to use the Fiber Channel protocol for accessing the SAN.
In a virtual context, WWNs are assigned to virtual Host Based Adaptors (vHBA) by the hypervisor. When activated
on a physical HP blade server, the same WWNs can be associated to the physical HBAs by Virtual Connect modules.
Figure 5 illustrates the use of identical WWNs in both physical and virtual contexts.
Figure 5. NPIV: Use of identical WWNs in physical and virtual logical servers
On the left side of Figure 5, logical servers LS1 and LS2 are activated in physical servers, with respectively WWN1 and
WWN2 used for accessing the SAN. After a P2V migration, they can still use WWN1 and WWN2 through NPIV devices,
while activated in a virtual machine host.
SAN fabric connections
In Insight Management environments with Virtual Connect modules, the Virtual Connect Manager manages Fiber Channel
SAN connections. Such connections are identified by a SAN fabric name and various other parameters like the bay
number of the VC module taking care of that particular connection.