May 2011
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
15h 3m
English
book
Implementing the IBM Storwize V7000
by Brian Cartwright, Ronda Hruby, Daniel Koeck, Xin Liu, Massimo Rosati, Thomas Vogel, Bill Wiegand, Jon Tate
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4.1 Host attachment overview
A host system is an open-systems computer that is connected to the switch through a Fibre
Channel or an iSCSI interface.
This chapter describes the following topics:
Preparing the host operating system
–Windows
• Fibre Channel (FC)
• iSCSI
–VMware
• Fibre Channel
• iSCSI
Creating hosts using the Storwize V7000 GUI
– Creating FC hosts
– Creating iSCSI hosts
In this chapter, we assume that your hosts are connected to your FC or IP network and you
have completed the steps described in Chapter 2, “Initial configuration” on page 35. Follow
basic zoning recommendations to ensure that each host has at least two network adapters,
that each adapter is on a separate network (or at minimum ...
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