NPIV Virtual Port and WWN VM

Hi guys,.

Looking at doc NPIV for VCAP-DCA. Little confusion of Virtual Port, NPIV and VM WWN.

Some study guide talks on up to 4 virtual port by virtual computer. I understand the virtual port pair is WWN assigned to the virtual machine that can be used as vHBA to the FC fabric. In my lab 5.5, I can assign up to 16 pairs WWN on a virtual machine (8 HW).

I can see the limit of 4 virtual port in the v4.1 document, but couldn't find it in v5 and v5.5. This limit removed from v5 and later?

Thank you.

VMware vSphere 4 - ESX and vCenter Server

Each virtual machine can have up to 4 virtual ports. Active NPIV VMS are assigned exactly 4 WWN NPIV related, which is used to communicate with the physical host bus adapters through virtual ports. As a result, virtual machines can use up to 4 physical HBA to purposes are NPIV.

Documentation Centre of vSphere 5.5

In fact, it is given in the documentation of 5.5. You might have missed it. Here is the link for it

Documentation Centre of vSphere 5.5

You can have up to 16 WWN. "The documentation States" ""you can create 1 to 16 pairs WWN, which may be mapped to the first from 1 to 16 physical FC HBA on the host. "

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