FC Adapter Policy for Hyper V 2016

[MSL]

Hi

We are looking for guidance on FC adapter policy best practice specific to Microsoft HV 2016. FIs (6248UP) connected to MDS 9148 and using storage arrays from EMC-VNX and Dell Compellent. Usually the recommended values with FC adapter policy is related to storage vendor or Cisco (using VIC 1340)? We are not sure whether we need to select the default FC Adapter Policy for Windows or we need to fine tune it.

With current production infra we are using Dell blade servers and HBAs from QLogic & Emulux and Dell provided recommended values for these HBAs as well some Windows 2012 R2 registry keys (before modifying these values with HBA / registry, a storage controller restart / failure affected hosts). That's the reason we ask for best practice on FC adapter policy.

Thanks in advance

[Walter Dey]

Please use this tool https://ucshcltool.cloudapps.cisco.com/

and enter your blade model, UCS version, OS vendor, OS version; and you will get all the information you are looking for.

UCS storage interop information can be found here

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/intmatrx/Matrix8.html