Storage Partitioning Wizard: Introduction

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This screen helps you to quickly and easily create a single storage partition . It guides you through the major steps required to specify the hosts and logical drives , together with their Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs) , to be included in the storage partition.

Important: Before a storage partition can be defined, the following steps must be completed:

1

Define the host groups. Host groups should ONLY be defined if you have two or more hosts that will share access to the same logical drives. Otherwise, start at step 2. For more information, see Defining a Host Group.

2

Define the hosts that will access logical drives on the storage subsystem. For more information, see Defining a Host.

3

Define the host ports that will allow a host to access the logical drives on the storage subsystem. For more information, see Defining a Host Port.

Procedure

Follow the directions on each screen and press Next when ready to move to the next Wizard screen.

Note: Each Wizard screen has context-sensitive help. Press Help to receive help for that particular screen.

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Using the Storage Partitioning Wizard

Storage Partitioning Wizard: Select Host Group or Host

Storage Partitioning Wizard: Select Logical Drives/LUNs