Table 1-44 Mode of Fibre Channel
Mode Description
Dedicated FC 1 LPAR dedicates 1 FC adapter.
Shared FC HBA-core
dedicated mode
disabled
Multiple LPARs share a single FC adapter and
multiple processing cores (HBA cores) existing in
that FC adapter.
HBA-core
dedicated mode
enabled
Multiple LPARs share a single FC adapter. Each LPAR
exclusively uses a specific processing core (HBA
core) that exists in that FC adapter.
Dedicated FC
1 LPAR dedicates 1 FC adapter. Multiple LPAR cannot use the dedicated FC
adapter.
Same WWWN as vfcID=1 is used on dedicated FC.
The EFI driver setting to a vfcID=1 of dedicated FC is succeeded to the
vfcID=1 of shared FC. Only "Connection Type" and "Data Rate" are
succeeded to the vfcID=2 or subsequent vfcID of the shared FC.
Shared FC
Multiple LPARs share 1 FC adapter. The adapter is simultaneously used by
those LPARs.
FC adapter has two detailed-modes on the Shared FC Mode.(Detailed-modes
of Shared FC can be defined on the Shared FC Assignment Screen)
• Port separate assignment
When FC adapter has two or more ports, each ports can be assigned to
different LPARs separately.
• Port sharing assignment
1 FC port can be assigned to multiple LPARs and shared.
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