- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Additional Resources
- Volumes
- Volume groups overview
- Hosts and host group configurations
- Data mobility for volumes and volume groups
- Thin clones
- Quality of Service (QoS) policies
- Performance policies
Dell PowerStore Configuring Volumes
Add a host
Prerequisites
Obtain the following information:
- A hostname that you can use as a lookup later.
- Type of host operating system.
- iSCSI initiator IQNs, FC initiator WWNs, and NVMe initiator nonqualified names (NQNs) for the initiators that you want the host to use for accessing storage.
About this task
Steps
- Under Compute, select Host Information.
- Click Add Host.
- On the Host Details page, enter a name for the host and select the operating system.
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On the
Initiator Type page, select Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI, NVMe, or NVMe vVol.
NOTE:You can use FC and iSCSI initiators with traditional datastores and vVols. You can use NVMe initiators only if you are working with traditional datastores. If you are working with vVols, you must select NVMe vVol as the initiator type.Review the prerequisites for the host connections.
- On the Host Initiators page, select an initiator from the autodiscovered initiators list.
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If the host operating system is ESXi, select the type of host connectivity on the
Host Connectivity page.
If you selected Metro Connectivity, select the Metro connectivity option for the ESXi host.NOTE:Metro connectivity is only available for ESXi hosts.
- On the Summary page, review the host connection details, and click Add Host.
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