Emulex announced in Barcelona this week that they’ve released a PRO management pack for VMM 2008 and Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007.
The concept is pretty simple. Your VM will be configured to have it’s own World-Wide Name (WWN) on the SAN fabric. This means that your zoning must include the VM. That’s more management in the storage provisioning so I’m not sure it’s something I’d do. Maybe it can be done selectively for key VM’s? The management pack can detect when an Emulex HBA is being overlaoded andidentify which VM’s are responsible for the excessive traffic. You can then take whatever preventative action you need.
EDIT:
I went to the HP stand afterwards and asked them what they were doing with "PRO tips". They have a management pack coming out maybe in December 2008 or January 2009. In their canned demo (AVI) you could see a wide range of components including storage. The presenter wasn’t sure but he reckoned HP would have to cover by Emulex and QLogic controllers for end-to-end storage management in a Hyper-V/VMM farm.