Configuring hosts

Parent Topic

• Managing logical volumes

  After provisioning your system, you can begin to manage open-system logical volumes. Managing logical volumes includes tasks such as configuring hosts and ports, configuring LU paths, setting LUN security on ports, and setting up Fibre Channel authentication. LUN Manager is required to manage logical volumes.

Child Topics

• Configure hosts workflow
• Host modes for host groups
• Host mode options
• How to find the WWN of a host bus adapter

  Before physically attaching the storage system to hosts, some preparation work needs to be performed. After you verify that the Fibre Channel adapters and device drivers are installed on the open-system hosts, you must find the World Wide Name (WWN) of each host bus adapter that will be connected to the storage system.

• Creating a host group and registering hosts in the host group (Fibre Channel)

  After discovering the WWNs of the host bus adapters in a Fibre Channel environment, use this procedure to create a host group and register the hosts in the host group.