Deciding whether to use the FC Configuration for Windows Express Guide
This guide describes how to quickly set up the FC service on a storage virtual machine (SVM) , provision a LUN, and make the LUN available using an FC HBA on a Windows host computer.
This guide is based on the following assumptions:
- You want to use best practices, not explore every available option.
- You do not want to read a lot of conceptual background.
You are using traditional FC HBAs and switches.
This guide does not cover FCoE.
You have at least two FC target ports available on each node in the cluster.
Onboard FC and UTA2 (also called
CNA
) ports, as well as some adapters are configurable. Configuring those ports is done in the ONTAP CLI and is not covered in this guide.You are not configuring FC SAN boot.
You are not using virtual Fibre Channel (VFC) with Hyper-V or ESX guests.
If these assumptions are not correct for your situation, you should see the following resources: