Dell MD3200i, MD3220i 9 Configuration: About Y our Host , 10 Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks

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9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 93
Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Removing Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Managing Host Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Moving a Host to a Different Host Group . . . . . . 97
Removing a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Host Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Starting or Stopping the Host Context Agent . . . . 99
I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
10 Configuration: Disk Groups
and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 103
Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Changing the Virtual Disk
Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 109
Changing the Segment Size of a Virtual Disk . . . 111
Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 113
Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting Disk . . 113
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