A virtual SAN should be associated with a physical host bus adapter

Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016

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Property Details
Operating System Windows Server 2016
Product/Feature Hyper-V
Severity Warning
Category Configuration

In the following sections, italics indicates UI text that appears in the Best Practices Analyzer tool for this issue.

Issue

A virtual storage area network (SAN) has been configured without an association to a host bus adapter (HBA).

Impact

A virtual machine will fail to start when it is configured with a virtual Fibre Channel adapter connected to a misconfigured virtual SAN. This impacts the following virtual SANs:

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Resolution

Reconfigure the virtual SAN by connecting it to a host bus adapter.