Introduction
INFINIDAT recommends using Host PowerTools in order to connect hosts to InfiniBox. Nevertheless, if for any reason it is not possible to use Host PowerTools, use the following instructions to connect your host to InfiniBox.
Zoning
Follow these guidelines:
Host readiness
Follow these guidelines:
Provisioning
Provisioning storage resources is done from InfiniBox (using either of the following : GUI, InfiniShell, API, InfiniSDK). Provisioning tasks are documented here:
- Accessing InfiniBox
- Creating a host on InfiniBox
- Provisioning volumes
- Creating a pool
- Relevant only if a pool was not created by the storage admin
- Creating a volume
- Creating a pool
- LUN masking
Create and mount a filesystem
OS admin tasks:
- Discovering the storage device
- Creating a filesystem on the discovered device
- Mounting the filesystem
Disconnecting a host from InfiniBox
- Unmount the InfiniBox filesystems
- Unmapping a volume from a host or a cluster
- Deleting a volume (optional)
- This operation deletes all of the data from the volume
- This operation deletes the volume's snapshots
- This operation is irreversible
- Deleting a host
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