Create & Map Volume Wizard

This help page is one of a set of related help pages that explain the tasks that you can complete using the Navigator 2 wizards. Click here to see the overview of all the Navigator 2 wizards.

This help page provides information to guide you through the features and basic operations of the Create & Map Volume wizard. This wizard guides you through the following tasks:

Introduction
Create or select RAID Group
Create or select logical unit
Create or select host group or Create or select iSCSI Target
Connect to hosts
Confirm
Finish

Introduction

The introduction page lists the tasks that can be completed by this wizard (the step that Introduction, Confirm and finish is abbreviated). Click Next > to continue to the next screen and begin the setup process.

NOTE: The settings you make in this wizard are not saved until you complete the wizard settings and select Confirm on the Confirm screen.

Create or Select RAID Group

From this screen, choose from an existing RAID Group or create a new one.

To create a new, or select an existing RAID Group, do one of the following:

To create a new RAID Group:

Select the create a New RAID Group option.
Enter the information for drive type, the level of RAID group and RAID combination.
Click Next> to continue to the Create or Select logical unit screen.

To choose an existing RAID Group:

Select the Use a Existing RAID Group option.
Select the desired RAID Group from the RAID Group drop-down list.
Click Next> to continue to the Create or Select logical unit screen.

Create or Select Logical Unit (back to top)

From this screen, create new logical units or use existing logical units.

NOTE: If the RAID group capacity that you selected is less than 10 GB you must select from the existing RAID group capacity or create RAID group capacity.

To create a new, or select and existing logical unit (LU), do one of the following:

To create new LU's:

Select Create new logical units check box.
Enter the desired values for Logical Unit Capacity and Number of Logical Units fields, or...
Select either the Create one logical unit to assign one of the maximum free space in the selected RAID group or the Create one logical unit to assign all free spaces of the selected RAID group.
Click Next> to continue to the Create or Select host groups unit screen.

To choose an existing LU:

Select the desired LU from the Existing logical units box. You may select more than one LU.
Click Next> to continue to the Create or Select host groups unit screen.

Create or Select Host Groups or iSCSI Targets (back to top)

This sections provides information on creating or selecting Host Groups or iSCSI targets and assigning them to a port.

Creating or Selecting a Host Group

Select a port to map to from the available ports options.
Create a new host group by selecting the Create new host groups option, or choose Use existing host groups and select the group you want.
If you create a new host group, choose the Middleware and Platform from the available drop-down menu options.
If you select an existing host group, choose from the available groups from the drop-down menu options.

Click Next> to continue to the Connect to hosts screen.

Creating or Selecting iSCSI Targets

Select a port to map to from the available ports options.
Create a new iSCSI Target, or choose Use Existing iSCSI Targets and select the group you want.
If you create a new iSCSI target, enter the iSCSI target number, Alias, Platform and Middleware. Note that the default iSCSI name is set to type iqn (iSCSI Qualified Name). You must change it to type eui (IEEE EUI-64) by manually typing in that string.
if you select an existing iSCSI target, choose the port and select using the host groups available from the drop-down menu options.

Click Next> to continue to the Connect to hosts screen.

Connect to Host (back to top)

To connect to a host, select a desired host from the Detected hosts list.

Click Next> to exit this screen and open the Confirm screen.

NOTE: This task is not displayed under the following conditions:

If the LUN Manager storage feature is not installed or enabled in the array.
If host group security is disabled.

The screen lists the existing host systems available to connect the selected iSCSI target to.

NOTE: If the LUN Manager storage feature is not installed and enabled, this screen will not be displayed. Instead, Navigator 2 displays a note telling you this In the message box, click Next. The wizard will automatically skip this screen and go to the Confirm screen. You can then confirm the mapping between the LUNS and the iSCSI target, but will not be able to confirm the mapping from the iSDSI target to a host. See the help pages for creating iSCSI targets and installing licenses for more information.

To connect the iSCSI target:

If many hosts are displayed, click Filter to display only hosts that match a desired criteria. See the Filter help page for more information.
To allow multiple hosts to map to the selected volumes, select Allow multiple hosts. This maps the hosts to the iSCSI Targets.
Select the check boxes of the listed hosts to which you want to connect the selected iSCSI target.
Click Next. The Confirm screen is displayed.

Confirm (back to top)

The Confirm screen is divided into three sections, one for each of the settings dialog boxes described above..

Review the settings in each section.
To change any settings, click Back as many times as needed to go back to the desired screen to change settings.

NOTE: You cannot change settings on the confirmation screen. You must go back to the original screens to make changes.

If all of the settings are correct as displayed, click Confirm to save the settings.
A progress indicator is displayed, along with a message asking you to wait a few minutes.
Depending on the communication speed and network activity, it make take a several seconds to a few minutes save the settings. When the settings are saved, the wizard displays the Finish screen.

Finish (back to top)

The Finish screen displays a message that the wizard has completed successfully. It also provides a button that you can use to restart the wizard to create and/or map additional volumes to hosts.

Click Create & Map More LU to restart the wizard and repeat the process, or.
Click Finish to close the wizard and return to the Array Properties window.