Patent ID: 8301848

Claim:
A method to provide to each of a plurality of Working load Partitions (WPAR) in a server access to physical storage through a Virtual Input/Output Server (VIOS) of the server, comprising: receiving, by a WPAR manager of the server, a request from a requesting WPAR of a logical partition of the server, to perform a memory transaction; connecting the requesting WPAR through a virtual port, assigned to the WPAR and connected to the VIOS using Node Port Identification Virtualization (NPIV) protocol, to a physical storage to give the requesting WPAR private access to the physical storage; and performing the memory transaction between the WPAR and the physical storage via the virtual port assigned to the WPAR; and creating by execution of software, a Virtual Fiber Channel (VFC) adapter associated with a virtual port identification, wherein each of the WPARs in the plurality of WPARs is associated with a separate unique virtual port, and wherein each of the separate unique virtual ports associated with the WPARs is associated with the virtual port identification of the VFC.