Locating the WWPNs for a host that is running a VMware operating system

You can locate the worldwide port names (WWPNs) for a host that is running a VMware operating system.

To locate the WWPNs for the host, complete the following steps:

  1. Open the VMware Management Interface and click the Options tab.
  2. Select Storage Management.
  3. In the new window, click the Adapter bindings tab.
    The WWPN is listed at the end of each port heading line, which is the lines that start with vmhba. For example, in the following line, 21:00:00:E0:8B:1A:E4:C6 is the WWPN of the HBA port:
    vmhba0: QLogic Corp QLA231x/2340 (rev 02) (21:00:00:E0:8B:1A:E4:C6)