User`s guide

SANblade Manager User’s

FS0054601-00 E Page vii

SANblade Manager User’s Guide

Management Application for SANblade Host Bus Adapters

Section 7 Setting Up Connections

7.1 Connecting to Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

7.1.1 Manually Connecting to a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

7.1.2 Auto Connecting to All Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

7.1.3 Connecting to Hosts Using a Host Group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

7.1.3.1 Creating a Host Group File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

7.1.3.2 Using a Host Group File to Connect to Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

7.1.4 Connecting to Hosts Automatically when Starting the SANblade

Manager GUI from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

7.1.4.1 Connecting on Windows NT/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

7.1.4.2 Connecting on Red Hat Linux or Solaris SPARC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6

7.1.5 Disconnecting from a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

7.2 Configuring Fibre Channel Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

7.2.1 Configuring Device Paths for this Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

7.2.1.1 Auto Configuring Device Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

7.2.1.2 Configuring Individual Device Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11

7.2.1.3 Forcing Separation of Device Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

7.2.1.3.1 Forcing Separate Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

7.2.1.3.2 Combining Separated Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13

7.2.2 Configuring LUN Path Failover and LUN Masking for this Host . . . . . 7-14

7.2.2.1 Enable or Disable Failover Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15

7.2.2.2 Load Balancing All LUN Paths on this Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15

7.2.2.3 Enabling and Disabling All LUNs on this Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

7.3 Configuring LUNs for a Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

7.3.1 Auto Configuring All LUN Paths on this Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19

7.3.2 Configure LUN Path Failover for this Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19

7.3.2.1 Auto Configuring All LUN Paths on this Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

7.3.2.2 Load Balancing LUN Paths on this Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

7.3.2.3 Configuring LUN Paths to the Default Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

7.3.2.3.1 Configure Adapter LUN Paths to the Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21

7.3.2.3.2 Configure an Individual LUN’s Paths to the Default . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21

7.3.2.4 Setting Individual LUN Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21

7.3.3 Configure LUN Masking for this Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22

7.3.3.1 Enabling and Disabling All LUNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22

7.3.3.2 Enabling and Disabling Individual LUNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22

7.4 Viewing Adapter, Device, and Path Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22

7.4.1 Viewing Adapter Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23

7.4.2 Viewing Device Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24

7.4.3 Viewing Path Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25