Storage System Hardware Owner's Manual

8 Contents
9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 93
Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Defining a Host
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Removing Host Access
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Managing Host Groups
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Creating a Host Group
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Moving a Host to a Different Host Group
. . . . . . 97
Removing a Host Group
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Host Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Starting or Stopping the Host Context Agent
. . . . 99
I/O Data Path Protection
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
10 Configuration: Disk Groups
and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 103
Creating Disk Groups
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Locating a Disk Group
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Creating Virtual Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Changing the Virtual Disk
Modification Priority
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings
. . . . 109
Changing the Segment Size of a Virtual Disk
. . . 111
Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 113
Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting Disk
. . 113
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