Administrator Guide
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 dene 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 Host Bus
Adapters table.
• If a server HBA is not visible to the Storage Center, click Manually Add HBA to dene 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 congured and ready to use.
7 Click OK.
Related links
Congure Front-End I/O Ports (Fibre Channel and SAS)
Congure Front-End I/O Ports (iSCSI)
Create a Virtual Server
Create a virtual server object to represent a virtual machine in your environment.
Prerequisite
The server that hosts the virtual server must be added as a physical server.
Steps
1 Make sure the server HBAs have connectivity to the Storage Center HBAs.
• iSCSI – Congure the iSCSI initiator on the server to use the Storage Center HBAs as the target.
• Fibre Channel – Congure 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 congured as front-end connections.
2 If the Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
3 Click the Storage tab.
4 Select the server that hosts the virtual server in the Storage tab navigation pane.
5 In the right pane, click Create Virtual Server.
The Create Virtual Server dialog box opens.
Figure 19. Create Virtual Server Dialog Box
6 Congure the server attributes.
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