Users Guide
Deleting Virtual Identity Pools
Exporting Virtual Identity Pools
Creating Virtual Identity Pools
The Create Virtual Identity Pool wizard enables you to create virtual identity pools and add virtual
identities to the virtual identity pools.
To create a virtual identity pool:
1. In the left pane, click Settings → Virtual Identity Pools.
2. On the Virtual Identity Pools page, click Create.
The Create Virtual Identity Pool wizard is displayed.
3. On the Pool Information page, type the Pool Name and Pool Description to identify the virtual
identity pool, and then click Next.
The virtual identity pool name must be less than 100 characters.
4. On the Virtual MAC page, add the virtual MAC identities, and then click Next.
5. On the Virtual IQN page, add the virtual IQN identities, and then click Next.
6. On the Virtual WWPN page, add the virtual WWPN identities, and then click Next.
7. On the Virtual WWNN page, add the virtual WWNN identities, and then click Next.
8. On the Summary page, click Finish.
Related Links
Adding Virtual MAC Identities
Adding Virtual IQN Identities
Adding Virtual WWPN Identities
Adding Virtual WWNN Identities
Adding Virtual MAC Identities
1. On the Virtual MAC page of the Create Virtual Identity Pool wizard, in the Number of Virtual MAC
Identities
box, type the total number of virtual MAC identities that you want to add (any whole
number between 1–1,024).
2. From the MAC Address Prefix list, type the MAC address prefix to be added to the beginning of the
MAC addresses.
3. Select Auto Generate Identities if needed during deployments check box to automatically generate
the Virtual MAC address during the deployment, if required.
Adding Virtual IQN Identities
At a time, you can add as less as one and as many as 1,024 virtual IQN identities at one time. The
maximum number of virtual IQN identities that ASM can manage is 16,000.
1. On the Virtual IQN page of the Create Virtual Identity Pool wizard, in the Number of Virtual iSCSI
Identities box type the total number of virtual IQN identities that you want to add (any whole number
between 1–1,024).
2. In the IQN Prefix box, type the IQN prefix that to be added to the beginning of the IQN.
Examples of possible prefixes include product types, serial numbers, host identifiers, and software
keys.
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