Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Deployment Guide

Changing host port settings

You can configure controller host-interface settings for ports except for systems with a 4-port SAS controller module or 10Gbase-T iSCSI controller module.

To enable the system to communicate with hosts, you must configure the host-interface options on the system.

For a system with a 4-port SAS controller module or 10Gbase-T iSCSI controller module, there are no host-interface options.

For a system with 4-port SFP+ controller modules (CNC), all host ports ship from the factory in Fibre Channel (FC) mode. However, the ports can be configured as a combination of FC or iSCSI ports. FC ports support use of qualified 16 Gb/s SFP transceivers. You can set FC ports to auto-negotiate the link speed or to use a specific link speed. iSCSI ports support use of qualified 10 Gb/s SFP transceivers.

For information about setting host parameters such as FC port topology, and the host-port mode, see the Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System CLI Reference Guide.