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Chapter 7. Direct attached Fibre

Channel devices partition to

virtual Fibre Channel

This section provides instructions for the migration of a logical partition that uses

direct-attached Fibre Channel resources (such as a tape drive) to a logical

partition with the Fibre Channel devices being virtualized using the Virtual I/O

Server and a virtual Fibre Channel capable Fibre Channel card.

Using Virtual Fibre Channel allows much more practical use of

Fibre-Channel-attached devices and releases dependencies on having

dedicated cards for functions such as tape access.