Implementing the IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 (including the Storwize V5010, V5020, and V5030) with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V8.1

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Host configuration

This chapter describes how to use the IBM Storwize V5000 graphical user interface (GUI) to create hosts and how to prepare a host to access the volumes that are created. (Volume creation is described in Chapter 6, “Volume configuration” on page 287.)

Specifically, this chapter provides information about the following topics:

•Host attachment overview

•Planning for direct-attached hosts

•Preparing the host operating system

•N-Port Virtualization ID (NPIV) Support

•Creating hosts by using the GUI

•Host Clusters

•Proactive Host ...

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