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Allocating storage to a host from a Symmetrix array 149
Configuring and Controlling Your Datacenter
Note: Optionally, the administrator could click Edit Changes to close the dialog
box and return to the Masking view and make further modifications, or delete a
masking operation(s) by selecting it in the table and clicking Delete Actions.
6. Previews the grant masking actions.
7. Checks Activate the VCMDB to automatically refresh the grant access actions to all
the Fibre Channel adapters on the Symmetrix array.
If the administrator does not check Activate the VCMDB, the administrator must
manually run the Make Active command in Ionix ControlCenter after the grant
access tasks have finished running on the Ionix ControlCenter Server.
8. Clicks Execute.
After the operation executes on the Ionix ControlCenter Server, host l82ar156 has
secure access to the selected devices on Symmetrix 30471 port FA-3D, Port 0. The
modifications are visible to all the hosts that are connected to the Symmetrix
storage array. If the change is not reflected in the Console, the administrator can
reboot the host and run the host agent to rediscover the HBA.
Creating device groups
The administrator creates a device group containing the standards and BCVs to
simplify the process of establishing devices. Placing both standards and BCVs in the
same device group allows the administrator to establish all devices at once instead of
individually.
To do this, the administrator:
1. In the Console tree, expands the folders Storage Systems, Symmetrix.
2. Expands the Symmetrix array (000187400075), the folder Mapped Devices, and
then Standard Devices.
3. Selects the standard devices for the host: 1F4 through 1F8.
4. Right-clicks the highlighted devices and selects Data Protection, Device Groups,
Create.
Step 1 of the Device Group Wizard appears (Figure 131).