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• Priority for acquiring the WWN , page 48
• About changing host settings and information , page 52
Methods for registering hosts
There are a variety of methods to register one or more hosts including using its WWN, using
host-installed agents, or agentless discovery.
The following table describes the methods you can use to register one or more hosts:
Table 2 Methods for registering hosts
Description Method Purpose
To register hosts in XP7 Command View AE based on WWN, manually
specify the host name, OS type, and WWN information.
Hosts can be registered without Host Data Collector or Device Manager
agent setup.
Virtualization servers can also be manually registered, but the virtual
machine information cannot be referenced or displayed.
Register each
host by WWN.
To manually re-
gister individual
hosts.
To register multiple hosts in a batch, register multiple hosts by specifying
the IP address (range specification and listing addresses are available),
and the authentication information of the host on the network. The host’s
WWN information is automatically obtained.
To allocate volumes to an FCoE port, you must manually add a WWN.
Host Data Collector setup is required.
Use Host Data
Collector. To register multiple
hosts in a batch.
To know the usage status of storage resources for the virtualization
servers, or the correspondence with the virtual machines, and you want
to register both the virtualization server and the virtual machine, the
virtualization server must use NPIV (N-Port ID Virtualization) HBAs, and
be connected with Fibre Channel.
For virtual machines, install Device Manager agent or use Host Data
Collector to specify the IP address (range specification and listing
addresses are available), and the authentication information of the host
on the network.
If the virtualization server is not using NPIV HBAs, either a virtualization
server or a virtual machine can be registered per HBA unit (both a
virtualization server and a virtual machine cannot be registered in the
same WWN).
Use Host Data
Collector.
To know the usage
status of storage
resources for the
virtualization serv-
ers, or the corres-
pondence with the
virtual machines.
To automatically acquire host information, or to manage a copy pair
by using the replication functionality of the volume, install Device
Manager agent on each host or on the management server of the copy
pair. Host information or copy pair information is sent from Device
Manager agent. For details about installing the Device Manager agent,
see the HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition Installation and
Configuration Guide.
To exclude a host from management by XP7 Command View AE,
uninstall the Device Manager agent, and then remove the host using
XP7 Command View AE.
To allocate volumes to an FCoE port, you must manually add a WWN.
Use Device
Manager
agent.
To automatically
acquire host in-
formation, or to
manage a copy
pair by using the
replication func-
tionality of the
volume.
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