Product guide

212 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices
Figure 190 Mapped thin devices displayed under assigned port
Masking thin devices to host
To mask thin devices, the System Administrator performs the following tasks:
1. From the Ionix ControlCenter Console, clicks the drop-down menu next to Storage
Allocation on the Ionix ControlCenter menu bar, and selects Masking view.
2. Clears any checked boxes in the tree view and selects the host that is mapped to
the thin devices and drags it into the Masking view.
Note: If the SAN is not discovered, then no array will be populated in the Masking
View. Select All SAN Storage from the Select Storage Type drop-down menu. You will
also need to know the FA port the host is using.
3. Enters the following in the Masking View dialog (Figure 192 on page 214):
• Select Storage Type — Symmetrix
• Select Storage Array — Selects desired the Symmetrix SID
• Select Storage Port — Selects desired storage port name