A.Youcan not use an NPIV switch in the same IBM BladeCenter chassis as a Cisco Intelligent Ethernet Switch
B.Using blade servers with the NPIV switch will require morefibre ports on the external fibre switch
C.Storage devices likeFibre Channel Tape and Disk cannot be attached to the NPIV Switch but must connect to a core fabric switch.
D.The NPIV switch will count against the number of domains in a fabric