Dell MD3600I, MD3620I 9 Configuration: About Your Host. . . . . . . 95, 10 Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

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9 Configuration: About Your Host. . . . . . . 95
Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Using the Mappings Tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Removing Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Managing Host Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Moving a Host to a Different Host Group. . . . . 100
Removing a Host Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Host Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Starting or Stopping the
Host Context Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
I/O Data Path Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
10 Configuration: Disk Groups and
Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . 107
Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Creating Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Changing the Virtual
Disk Modification Priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Changing the Virtual
Disk Cache Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Changing the Segment
Size of a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
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