Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Guide - Page 53
Specify Host Port Identifier, Specify Host Name - user manual
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Define Two Hosts 1 From the PowerVault MDSM for the array you plan to use for your NAS storage, perform one of the actions: • Select Mappings and then Define Host. • Select the Setup tab, and click Manually Define Hosts. • Select the Mappings tab. Right-click the Host Group that you created (See "Creating a Host Group" on page 41.) in the Topology pane, and select Define Host from the pop-up menu. The Specify Host Name window is displayed. 2 In Host name, enter a host name (for example, NX3500-Controller-0). NOTE: The host name should be alphanumeric characters with the only special character "-". 3 Select Yes in Do you plan to use the storage partitions in the this storage array? and click Next. The Specify Host Port Identifiers window is displayed. 4 Select Add by creating a new host port identifier. In the New host port identifier field, enter the IQN you received from the configuration results of NASCU (see Figure ) and enter a User label for the host port identifier and click Add. NOTE: The user label cannot be the same as the host name, it should be based off the host name. For example: NX3500-Controller-0-IQN. 5 Click Next. The Specify Host Type window is displayed. 6 In Host type, select Linux as the operating system for the host. The Host Group Question window is displayed. 7 In this window, select Yes. This host shares access to the same virtual disks with other hosts. 8 Click Next. The Specify Host Group window is displayed. 9 Select the host group you created (see "Creating a Host Group" on page 41), and click Next. Setting Up Your PowerVault NX3500 Solution 53