HP QR516B manual Setting Up and Zoning the Fabric, Creating the Host Definition

Creating the Host Definition

Before connecting the ESX host to the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, create a host definition for each HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage that is to be connected to a host HBA port through a fabric or a direct connection.

1.To create host definitions, issue the HP 3PAR OS CLI createhost command with the appropriate host name. For example:

#createhost ESXserver1 10000000C9724AB2 10000000C97244FE

2.To verify that the host has been created, issue the HP 3PAR OS CLI showhost command.

#showhost -persona

Id Name -WWN/iSCSI_Name- Port

0 ESXserver1 10000000C9724AB2 ---

10000000C97244FE ---

3.(Optional) You can create a host set using createhostset, which allows the addition of multiple host names as a host definition set. A host set gives the convenience of exporting storage volume to hosts which are in a cluster. The same storage volumes need to be exported individually to each of the hosts, or they can be exported to a host set, which in turn will be exported to each of the hosts defined in the host set.

#createhostset ESXCluster

#createhost -add ESXCluster ESXserver1

#createhost -add ESXCluster ESXserver2

#showhostset

Id	Name	Members
0	ESXCluster	ESXServer1 ESXServer2

NOTE: See the HP 3PAR Command Line Interface Reference or the HP 3PAR Management Console Users Guide for complete details on using the controlport, createhost, and showhost commands.

These documents are available on the HP BSC website:

http://www.hp.com/go/bsc

Setting Up and Zoning the Fabric

NOTE: This section does not apply when deploying HP Virtual Connect direct-attach FC storage for HP 3PAR storage systems, where the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage ports are cabled directly to the uplink ports on the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10 Gb/24-port Module for c-Class BladeSystem. Zoning is automatically configured based on the Virtual Connect SAN Fabric and server profile definitions.

For more information about HP Virtual Connect, HP Virtual Connect interconnect modules, and the HP Virtual Connect direct-attach feature, see HP Virtual Connect documentation and the HP SAN Design Reference Guide. This documentation is available on the HP BSC website:

http://www.hp.com/go/bsc

Fabric zoning controls which Fibre Channel end-devices have access to each other on the fabric. Zoning also isolates the hostand HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage ports from Registered State Change Notifications (RSCNs) that are irrelevant to these ports.

12 Configuring the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage for Fibre Channel