You work as a senior administrator at Contoso.com. The Contoso.com network consists of a single
domain named Contoso.com. All servers in the Contoso.com domain, including domain controllers,
have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
You are running a training exercise for junior administrators. You are currently discussing the Virtual
Fibre Channel SAN feature.
Which of the following is TRUE with regards to the Virtual Fibre Channel SAN feature? (Choose all
that apply.)
A.
It prevents virtual machines from connecting directly to Fibre Channel storage.
B.
It allows for virtual machines to connect to Fibre Channel storage directly.
C.
It includes support for virtual SANs, live migration, and multipath I/O.
D.
It includes support for virtual SANs, and live migration, but not multipath I/O.
Explanation:
To gain the full benefits of server virtualization and cloud architectures, virtualized workloads need
to connect easily and reliably to existing SANs. For many enterprise organizations, Hyper-V
deployments were limited in scale and scope because they lacked the ability to directly connect VMs
to Fibre Channel SAN storage from inside a VM. Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2 now provides
virtual Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) ports within the guest operating system that runs the
virtual machine, connecting virtual machines directly to FibreChannel SAN Logical Unit Numbers
(LUNs).
Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V provides several important advantages for Hyper-V environments:
Simplifies storage connectivity for virtualized workloads to ultra-reliable, high-performance Fibre
Channel SAN storage.
Enables new solutions that require shared storage, such as failover clustering, live migration,
andmultipath I/O.
Leverages and protects existing investments in Fibre Channel storage?
Enables advanced FC SAN storage functionality for VMs.
Facilitates migration of FC workloads into the cloud.
Enables improved monitoring and troubleshooting, with visibility from the VM to the FC SAN
storage.
Enables centralized management of Ethernet and FC-based virtualized workloads.
Combining Virtual Fibre Channel for Hyper-V and the Brocade Fibre Channel SAN infrastructure
greatly simplifies connectivity between Fibre Channel SAN storage and virtualized applications,
enabling enterprise IT and hosting providers to achieve new levels of availability, reliability, and
scalability for cloud-based services.
You need your virtualized workloads to connect easily and reliably to your existing storage arrays.
Windows Server 2012 R2 provides Fibre Channel ports within the guest operating system, which
allows you to connect to Fibre Channel directly from within virtual machines. This feature protects
your investments in Fibre Channel, enables you to virtualize workloads that use direct access to Fibre
Channel storage, allows you to cluster guest operating systems over Fibre Channel, and provides an
important new storage option for servers hosted in your virtualization infrastructure.
With this Hyper-V virtual Fibre Channel feature, you can connect to Fibre Channel storage from
within a virtual machine. This allows you to use your existing Fibre Channel investments to support
virtualized workloads.
Support for Fibre Channel in Hyper-V guests also includes support for many related features, such as
virtual SANs, live migration, and MPIO.