Virtualizing SAN Connectivity With VMware Infrastructure 3 and Brocade Data Center Fabric Services

This paper looks at how the VMware Infrastructure platform leverages Fibre Channel (FC)-based shared storage to provide advanced virtualization services in the data center and how using ESX 3.5 deployed with Brocade DCF architecture enables enterprise customers to reap the full benefits of their investment in virtualization. It also demonstrates how support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) introduced with VMware ESX 3.5 enables critical fabric services to be extended to individual Virtual Machines (VMs).