Emc Powerpath; Enabling Access Control And Creating Storage Groups Using Navisphere - Dell CX4 Series User Manual

2 Add the following two separate lines to the agentID.txt file, with no
special formatting:
• First line: Fully qualified hostname. For example, enter
node1.domain1.com, if the host name is node1 and the domain name
is domain1.
• Second line: IP address that you want the agent to register and use to
communicate with the storage system.

EMC PowerPath

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EMC PowerPath
system and a Dell/EMC CX4-series storage system to any available path if a
primary path fails for any reason. Additionally, PowerPath provides multiple path
load balancing, allowing you to balance the I/O traffic across multiple SP ports.
Enabling Access Control and Creating Storage Groups Using
Navisphere
The following subsection provides the required procedures for creating
storage groups and connecting your storage systems to the host systems.
CAUTION:
Before enabling Access Control, ensure that no hosts are attempting to
access the storage system. Enabling Access Control prevents all hosts from
accessing any data until they are given explicit access to a LUN in the appropriate
storage group. You must stop all I/O before enabling Access Control. It is
recommended to turn off all hosts connected to the storage system during this
procedure or data loss may occur. After you enable the Access Control software, it
cannot be disabled.
1 Ensure that Navisphere Agent is started on all host systems.
Click the Start button and select Programs→ Administrative Tools,
a
and then select Services.
In the Services window, verify the following:
b
• In the Name column, Navisphere Agent appears.
• In the Status column, Navisphere Agent is set to Started.
• In the Startup Type column, Navisphere Agent is set to Automatic.
2 Open a Web browser.
automatically reroutes Fibre Channel I/O traffic from the host
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