Product guide

214 EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1: Taking Control of Your Datacenter
Virtual Provisioning of Your Symmetrix Devices
Upon completion, displays the new thin devices highlighted in green, indicating
that the masking has been granted and the host can now see the devices
(Figure 192 on page 214).
Figure 192 Mapped thin devices displayed in Masking View
Verifying masked thin devices
To verify masked thin devices:
1. Runs the symcli commands symcfg discover then Syminq and views the thin
devices seen by the host.
2. From the host, navigates to Disk Management and views the new volumes.
Auto-provisioning groups
Auto-provisioning groups creates a group of devices (storage group), a group of
director ports (port group), and a group of host initiators (initiator group) and
associates them in a masking view. When the masking view is created, the devices