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Host Port Mapping

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Host port mapping overview

HBAs and Hosts discovered through a fabric can be easily identified in the topology by their product
icons. For a list of products and their icons, refer to
the topology, you can create Hosts and assign the HBAs to them and import an externally created
Host port mapping file (.CSV) to the Management application.
NOTE
The Management application now enables you to map HBAs from multiple fabrics (previous versions
limited HBA mapping to one fabric).
NOTE
CNA HBAs do not support Host Port Mapping.
The Management application also enables you to discover Hosts directly using Host discovery (for
step-by-step instructions, refer to
when you open the Host Port Mapping dialog box the Management application automatically
groups all HBAs under the discovered Host.
If you create a new Host and associate HBAs to it, then you try to discover a Host with the same
HBAs using Host discovery, the HBA's discovered using Host discovery must match the HBAs
associated to the Host exactly; otherwise, Host discovery will fail.
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Host port mapping overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
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Creating a new Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
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Renaming an HBA Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
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Deleting an HBA Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
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Viewing Host properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
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Associating an HBA with a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
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Importing HBA-to-Host mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
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Removing an HBA from a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
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Exporting Host port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392
"Icon legend"
"Host discovery" on page 59). If you discover a Host directly,
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