Administrator Guide

• iSCSI – Congure the iSCSI initiator on the server to use the Storage Center HBAs as the target.

• Fibre Channel – Congure Fibre Channel zoning to allow the server HBAs and Storage Center HBAs to communicate.

• SAS – Directly connect the controller to a server using SAS ports congured as front-end connections.

2 If you are connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the drop-down list in the left navigation pane.

3 From the STORAGE menu, select Servers.

The Servers view is displayed.

4 Click (New), then select New Server.

The New Server dialog box opens.

5 Congure the server attributes.

The server attributes are described in the online help.

a Enter a name for the server in the Name eld.

b Select a server folder from the Server Folder drop-down menu.

c Select the operating system for the server from the Operating System drop-down menu.

d To generate Storage Center alerts when connectivity is lost between the Storage Center and the server, select Alert On Lost

Connectivity.

e To generate Storage Center alerts when the Storage Center only has partial connection to the server, select Alert On Partial

Connectivity.

f Select or dene one or more HBAs for the server.

• If one or more server HBAs are visible to the Storage Center, select the checkboxes of the HBAs to add from the HBAs

table.

• If a server HBA is not visible to the Storage Center, click (New) to dene it manually. For SAS front-end connections, use

the SAS device name as the World Wide Name (WWN) to manually add the HBA.

NOTE

: IP addresses can be added for HBAs that will be installed on the server in the future. When the HBA that uses

that IP address is installed, it will be congured and ready to use.

6 Click OK.