HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition Administrator Guide (Web Version) (TK981-96004, May 2014)

Configuration in which an HBA is shared by multiple virtual machines
Figure 6 Operation workflow for allocating volumes to virtual machines (when sharing an HBA by
multiple virtual machines)
1. Register one of the virtual machines that share an HBA as a normal host in Device Manager.
Do not register the virtualization server that runs in the same physical environment in Device
Manager.
2. Allocate the LUN paths of volumes to the virtual machine (WWN) registered in Device Manager,
and then make the virtual machines recognize the volumes as RAW devices.
Note that Device Manager cannot recognize volumes that make up a datastore.
NOTE:
If you want to assign a volume to another virtual machine that shares the HBA, you need to assign a
LUN path to the virtual machine that is managed by Device Manager. Therefore, after assigning a
LUN path, HP recommends that you label each volume so that in Device Manager you can identify
which virtual machine the volume is actually assigned to.
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