Setting priority for ports: one-to-one connections
Prioritized ports are ports on which processing has high priority, and non-prioritized ports are ports on which processing has lower priority. Specify a port that connects to a high-priority host bus adapter as a prioritized port. Specify a port that connects to a lower-priority host bus adapter as a non-prioritized port.
Before you begin
- Required role: Storage Administrator (System Resource Management)
- You must enable the Device Manager - Storage Navigator secondary window. For details, see the System Administrator Guide of your storage system.
Procedure
Click to open the Server Priority Manager window.
Click
to change to Modify mode.
In the Server Priority Manager window, click Server Priority Manager. The Server Priority Manager main window appears.
Select the Port tab.
Select All from the list at the top right corner of the window.
Right-click a high-priority port, and in the pop-up menu select . The Attribute column displays Prio. Repeat this action for each high-priority port.
Right-click a lower-priority port and in the pop-up menu select . The Attribute column displays Non-Prio. Repeat this action for each lower-priority port. You can set upper limit values only on the Non-prio. ports.
Click Apply to apply the settings to the storage system.
Now that you have set the port priorities, you can start monitoring the traffic (I/O rates and transfer rates) to collect data for analysis.