Data Center Fabric Manager Professional User Manual v10.3.X (53-1001355-01, November 2009)

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HBA server mapping

HBAs and servers discovered through one or more fabrics can be easily identified in the topology by

their product icons. For a list of products and their icons, refer to “Product icons” on page 16. Once

identified in the topology, you can create servers and assign the HBAs to them and import an

externally created HBA server 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 44). If you discover a host directly, when

you open the HBA Server Mapping dialog box the Management application automatically groups all

HBAs under the host.

If you create a new HBA server and associate HBAs to it, and 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 HBA server exactly; otherwise, Host discovery will fail.

Instructions for mapping an HBA server to HBAs are detailed in HBA server mapping in Chapter 5,

“Device Configuration” and include information about the following:

• Creating a new HBA server

• Renaming an HBA server

• Deleting an HBA server

• Viewing Server properties

• Associating an HBA with an HBA server

• Importing HBA-to-server mapping

• Removing an HBA from a HBA server