Implementing the IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 (including the Storwize V5010, V5020, and V5030) with IBM Spectrum Virtualize V8.2.1

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 309.)

The chapter includes the following topics:

•5.1, “Host attachment overview” on page 218

•5.2, “Planning for direct-attached hosts” on page 218

•5.3, “Preparing the host operating system” on page 219

•5.4, “N-Port ID Virtualization support” on page 246

•5.5, “Creating hosts by using ...