Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide

Working with hosts

The Hosts panel (Provisioning > Hosts) provides options to create hosts and host groups, display a list of existing hosts, host groups, and initiators that are a part of an existing host or host group, and display a list of all initiators.

For more information about creating hosts, see Creating hosts. To perform an action on an existing host or host group, select one or more hosts, host groups, or initiators from the table and then choose an option from the drop-down list:

• Attaching hosts to volumes
• Detaching hosts from volumes
• Removing initiators from a host
• Removing hosts from a host group
• Adding hosts to a host group
• Deleting hosts
• Deleting host groups

Other actions to take on this tab include:

• Renaming hosts
• Changing a host profile
• Renaming host groups
• Renaming initiators

Click to expand the host row to see initiator details. Select a host or initiator to perform an action from the drop- down list.

Click the host slide-over to view the Overview tab, where you can edit the name of the host and nickname of each initiator. Click the Attached Volumes tab to see information about attached volumes, attach a volume to the host, and to unmap volumes from the host. Follow the on-screen directions for more details.

Click the initiator slide-over to view the Overview tab and see initiator details. Click the Attached Volumes tab to see information about volumes attached to the initiator.

Click the All Initiators tab to display a list of existing initiators on the system. To perform an action, select one or more initiators from the table and then choose an option from the drop-down list:

• Adding initiators to a host
• Removing initiators from a host

For more information about hosts and initiators, see Initiators, hosts, and host groups.