I find it quite perplexing the fact that Multistore/vFilers doesn't support the Fibrechannel protocol.
With so much Netapp talk about multitenancy and yet the one of the largest deployment protocols is not supported in vFilers.
I checked the OnTap 8.0.1RC2 documentation and FC is still "vFiler 0"-only.
With the NPIV feature around since 2002 (or so) in Fibrechannel it should have been quite straightforward to implement the support for vFilers since a long time ago.
On the oldest hardware you can blame the builtin chipset, but at least since 4GB/s Fibrechannel I believe all FC chipset manufacturers implement NPIV.
And Netapp could always say that FC for vFilers is supported from model xxx. There are a lot of other features that are differented between models so it shouldn't be a problem.
Now with the hardware refresh behind us, I find it even more surprising that there is no indication that FC will be supported on vFilers, no matter if we are talking 4GB/s, 8GB/s or FCoE.
Could someone explain to me if there is any obvious reason for FC with NPIV not to work (at least theoreticly) in vFilers?
