Virtual machine virtual fabric login system

An Information Handling System (IHS), comprising:

• a plurality of ports;
• a processing system that is coupled to the plurality of ports;
• and
• a memory system that is coupled to the processing system and that includes instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to provide an N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) Proxy Gateway (NPG) engine that is configured to:
• receive, from a physical server device port on a server device that includes a hypervisor that is configured to provide a plurality of virtual machines and via a first port of the plurality of ports, first traffic from a first virtual machine that is included in the plurality of virtual machines, wherein the first traffic includes a first virtual machine identifier that identifies the first virtual machine;
• determine, using the first virtual machine identifier and a virtual-machine-to-virtual-fabric mapping, that the first virtual machine identifier is associated with a first virtual fabric identifier that identifies a first virtual fabric of a plurality of virtual fabrics accessible through a Fibre Channel (FC) networking device;
• tag the first traffic with the first virtual fabric identifier to provide tagged first traffic;
• and
• transmit, via a second port of the plurality of ports to an FC networking device port of the FC networking device, the tagged first traffic.

A method of traffic handling between virtual machines and virtual fabrics, comprising:

• receiving, by an Fibre Channel Forwarder (FCF) device via a first FCF device port from a physical server device port on a server device that includes a hypervisor that is configured to provide a plurality of virtual machines, first traffic from a first virtual machine that is included in the plurality of virtual machines, wherein the first traffic includes a first virtual machine identifier that identifies the first virtual machine;
• determining, by the FCF device and using the first virtual machine identifier and a virtual-machine-to-virtual-fabric mapping, that the first virtual machine identifier is associated with a first virtual fabric identifier that identifies a first virtual fabric of a plurality of virtual fabrics accessible through a Fibre Channel (FC) networking device;
• tagging, by the FCF device, the first traffic with the first virtual fabric identifier to provide tagged first traffic;
• and
• transmitting, by the FCF device via a second FCF device port to an FC networking device port of the FC networking device, the tagged first traffic.