User`s guide

7 – Setting Up Connections

Configuring Fibre Channel Devices

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7.2.2.1

Enable or Disable Failover Configuration

This feature is available only on Windows NT/2000.

If you are using third-party software for failover, disable failover in SANblade

Manager by performing the following steps:

1. From the Fibre Configuration dialog box, click the File menu.

2. Clear the Enable Failover Configuration check box. All the target paths

become visible, and all the LUN paths become preferred.

When failover is disabled, the following restrictions apply:

■ In the Fibre Configuration dialog box, you can set the path state to Visible or

Unconfigured (the path state cannot be Hidden).

■ In the LUN Configuration dialog box, the path state is limited to Preferred (the

path state cannot be Alternate).

NOTE: You can still use SANblade Manager for persistent binding and LUN

masking.

7.2.2.2

Load Balancing All LUN Paths on this Host

The load balance option configures all LUN paths on this host as preferred or

alternate using the resources most efficiently. The LUNs are staggered between

the adapters to distribute the loads. You can configure all LUNs or only LUNs that

are enabled.

Perform the following steps to configure all or enabled LUNs on this host:

1. From the Fibre Channel Configuration dialog box LUNs menu, select Load

Balance.

2. Do one of the following:

❑ Select Enabled LUNs Only to configure only enabled LUNs for load

balancing across the paths within this device.

If you selected this option for a device with no enabled LUNs, the no LUNs

enabled message displays. Click OK.

❑ Select All LUNs to configure all LUNs for load balancing across the paths

within this device.