Use case for NPIV?

Been reading up on NPIV and I dont see the point of having multiple WWPN's in your VM's. You still need to add the RDM disk to the VM's, so why go through the extra work of configuring NPIV (zoning and generating the WWPN's) ? What benefit does it provide?
Someone please shed some light on this?
Someone please shed some light on this?
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Use case is very limited.
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Really, the only time I found it useful was with clustering within the guest OS.
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Exactly, there is no performance difference or any other benefit with NPIV vs a plain old RDM - it's almost entirely for zoning purposes and visibility at the storage level as to what is actually using space.
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NPIV is not really a fledgling technology, it has been around since at least 2002.