Defining LU paths

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.

In a fibre channel environment, you must define LU paths and associate host groups with logical volumes. For example, if you associate a host group consisting of three hosts with logical volumes, LU paths are defined between the three hosts and the logical volumes.

To define LU paths:

  1. Perform one of following to display the Add LUN Paths window.

For Hitachi Command Suite:

For Storage Navigator:

  1. Select the desired LDEVs from the Available LDEVs table, then click Add.

Selected LDEVs are listed in the Selected LDEVs table.

  1. Click Next.

  1. Select the desired host groups from the Available Host Groups table, then click Add.

Selected host groups are listed in the Selected Host Groups table.

  1. Click Next.

  1. Confirm the defined LU paths.

  1. Click Finish.

  1. In the Confirm window, confirm the settings, in Task Name type a unique name for this task or accept the default, then click Apply.

If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.