Each vHBA is statically pinned to a single Fabric Interconnect uplink port or port channel using manual configuration.

In the event of a northbound uplink, port channel, or Fabric Interconnect complete failure to which a server is statically pinned to, unlike Ethernet pinning, the server connection will not be transferred to the other Fabric Interconnect for dynamic re-pinning, and as discussed, the multipath I/O driver of the operating system running on the server will be responsible for recognizing the path failure. If the multipath configuration is missing in the OS, communication will be stopped until the link is restored.