Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual v11.1x (53-1002167-01, May 2011)

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Chapter
11
Host Port Mapping
In this chapter
•Host port mapping overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
•Creating a new Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
•Renaming an HBA Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
•Deleting an HBA Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
•Viewing Host properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
•Associating an HBA with a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
•Importing HBA-to-Host mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
•Removing an HBA from a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
•Exporting Host port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Host port mapping overview
HBAs and Hosts discovered through a fabric can be easily identified in the topology by their product
icons. For a list of products and their icons, refer to “SAN product icons” on page 17. Once
identified in the topology, you can create Hosts and assign the HBAs to them and import an
externally created Host port mapping file (.CSV) to the Management application.
NOTE
The Management application now enables you to map HBAs from multiple fabrics (previous versions
limited HBA mapping to one fabric).
The Management application also enables you to discover Hosts directly using Host discovery (for
step-by-step instructions, refer to “Host discovery” on page 66). If you discover a Host directly,
when you open the Host Port Mapping dialog box the Management application automatically
groups all HBAs under the discovered Host.
If you create a new Host and associate HBAs to it, then you try to discover a Host with the same
HBAs using Host discovery, the HBA’s discovered using Host discovery must match the HBAs
associated to the Host exactly; otherwise, Host discovery will fail.