Adding your gateway to the host list on your storage subsystem

About adding your gateway

You must create a host group for each HBA port you plan to make a connection from to your storage subsystem.

Because formatting LUNS takes time to complete, you should first create a dummy host, which you use to create and format LUNs prior to assigning them to the actual gFiler gateways. You can do this before your gateway is installed. For more details, go to Adding LUNs.

Adding your gateway

You add your gateway to the host list on your storage subsystem to establish a logical connection for mapping LUNs.

To add your gateway to the host list, complete the following steps.

Step	Action
1	Go to the main screen.
2	Click Storage Allocation, which produces the Storage Allocation-Graphical View screen, as shown in the figure.
3	Click Open System Storage at the bottom of the screen.
4	Click Modify Host Systems at the bottom of the screen.
5	Select the correct attributes to add your gateway as a host, according to the following list: Nickname--The following naming conventions are recommended: Name one host dummy for adding LUNs. The dummy host must specify only the host type attribute, which is RS/6000. Name hosts based on a series for gateway HBAs (for example, snake-1, snake-2) Host Type--IBM RS/6000 Host Attachment--Fibre Channel Protocol Hostname/IP address--provided by user World-Wide Port-Name--provided by accessing gateway WWNs Fibre Channel Ports--select All Installed Ports
6	Click Add to add your gateway to the Host Systems List: