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.
The advanced provisioning software products and features of the storage systems enable you to implement the appropriate provisioning strategies for your operational environment and improve performance and capacity utilization.
Dynamic Provisioning allows you to reserve virtual storage capacity based on anticipated future capacity needs using virtual volumes instead of physical disk capacity, providing lower initial cost, greater efficiency, and ease of storage management.
When provisioning your system, configure hosts and Fibre Channel ports using LUN Manager. You can manage hosts, modify the host
configuration, and modify the port configuration when the system is in operation.
When configuring a Fibre Channel environment, use the
Authentication window to set user authentication on host groups, Fibre Channel ports, and fabric switches of the storage system.
