To allow hosts to use volumes, you must add hosts to host groups. Then, establish mappings between volume groups and host groups. By doing so, hosts in host groups can use volumes in volume groups. A host group can contain one or more hosts.
Procedure
- Choose .
- Click Create.
The Create Host Group dialog box is displayed.
- Set the name of the host group.
- A host group name must be unique.
- A host group name must contain 1 to 31 characters.
- A host group name can contain only letters, digits, underscores (_), hyphens (-), periods (.), and colons (:) and must start with a letter, digit, or underscore (_).
- Select the hosts you want to add to the host group.
- In the Available Hosts area, select one or multiple hosts based on your service requirements.
If hosts to be added into the host group belong to different clusters, data access conflict may occur, resulting in data loss. Before performing this operation, you are advised to install cluster software to manage hosts.
- Click
to add the hosts to the Selected Hosts area.
- In the Available Hosts area, select one or multiple hosts based on your service requirements.
- Click OK.
- Confirm your operation as prompted.