Host Port Mapping Overview - Brocade Communications Systems WFT-2D User Manual

Host Port Mapping
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Host port mapping overview

Host Bus Adapters (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
page 363. Once identified in 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 enables you to map HBAs from multiple fabrics (previous versions
limited HBA mapping to one fabric).
NOTE
Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) and HBAs support Host port mapping.
NOTE
After Auto Enclosure, if you discover a host that has more or as many adapters as the Auto
Enclosure, Host discovery succeeds.
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, and then try to discover a Host with the same
HBAs using Host discovery, the HBAs 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
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Creating a new Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 554
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Renaming an HBA Host. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
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Deleting an HBA Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
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Viewing Host properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555
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Associating an HBA with a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
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Importing HBA-to-Host mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556
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Removing an HBA from a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
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Exporting Host port mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 558
"Host discovery" on page 55). If you discover a Host directly,
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