UCSM and adding vhbas to Service Profile Templates

[jn242]

The environment is currently running ESXi and booting from local disk. 

Right now it has 2 vHBAs which connect to our SAN fabric/storage externally. 

Its got an additional 4 vnics. 

It's laid out as follows

1. vHBA0
2. vHBA1
3. VNIC1
4. VNIC2
5. VNIC3
6. VNIC4

Id like to clone the template and add 2 more vHBAs to this (with seperate VSANs) which will connect to a separate SAN/Fabric switches. 

If i add the vHBAs to the cloned template it sets the placement as 7 and 8 respectively. Can i have vHBAs this high in placement on a VIC1340 in a B200 M5 blade?

I havent tried this yet. I thought better ask first. 

The goal would be to add the new vHBAs and zone in the new storage in order to decom the current storage fabric and SAN storage in favor of this new fabric and storage. 

We would add vHBAs, zone those on the new fabric/storge and then vmotion over all the workloads from the current storage/fabric to the new. Once done, we would decom the old storage, fabric switches and be set up entirely on the new running out of the newly added vHBAs. 

[Riaan van Niekerk]

There is no issue having vHBAs this low in the order (I consider 7/8 low, since 1 is the highest placement).

What you plan on doing seems 100%. We have done similar actions moving between SANs. We have had the added complexity of booting from SAN (which does not care about the order either, only that your boot policy is set up correctly to boot from SAN).