Dell PowerVault NX3500 Administrator's Manual page 53

Define Two Hosts
1 From the PowerVault MDSM for the array you plan to use for your NAS
storage, perform one of the actions:
Select Mappings and then Define Host.
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• Select the Setup tab, and click Manually Define Hosts.
• Select the Mappings tab. Right-click the Host Group that you created
(See "Creating a Host Group" on page 41.) in the Topology pane, and
select Define Host from the pop-up menu.
The Specify Host Name window is displayed.
2 In Host name, enter a host name (for example, NX3500-Controller-0).
NOTE:
special character "-".
3 Select Yes in Do you plan to use the storage partitions in the this storage
array? and click Next.
The Specify Host Port Identifiers window is displayed.
4 Select Add by creating a new host port identifier. In the New host port
identifier field, enter the IQN you received from the configuration results
of NASCU (see Figure ) and enter a User label for the host port identifier
and click Add.
NOTE:
based off the host name. For example: NX3500-Controller-0-IQN.
5 Click Next.
The Specify Host Type window is displayed.
6 In Host type, select Linux as the operating system for the host.
The Host Group Question window is displayed.
7 In this window, select Yes.
This host shares access to the same virtual disks with other hosts.
8 Click Next.
The Specify Host Group window is displayed.
9 Select the host group you created (see "Creating a Host Group" on
page 41), and click Next.
The host name should be alphanumeric characters with the only
The user label cannot be the same as the host name, it should be
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