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

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Chapter
13
Host management
In this chapter
•Host management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
•HCM software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
•Host bus adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
•Converged network adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
•Host adapter discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
•Connectivity map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
•View management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
•Host port mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
•Role-based access control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
•Host performance management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
•Host security authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
•supportSave on adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
•Host fault management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
•Backup support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
•Adapter port WWN virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
•VM Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Host management
Extensive management operations are supported on the switches and fabrics of the SAN using the
Management application. Adapters and hosts are visible as part of the fabrics managed by the
Management application. The management operations that are currently available using the
Management application are discussed in this chapter.
The Management application integrates with another manageability application called the Host
Connectivity Manager (HCM) to provide complete management of the host bus adapters (HBAs)
and converged network adapters (CNAs).
• The Management application focuses on operations such as fault management, performance
management, and configuration management for multiple adapters and adapter ports and
security configuration using Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) that is set up on the
adapter port and the switch.