Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Add One or More HBAs to a Server

To map a volume to a server, the Storage Center must be able to communicate with at least one HBA on the server.

1. Make sure the server HBAs have connectivity with the Storage Center HBAs.
   • Fibre Channel – Configure Fibre Channel zoning to allow the server HBAs and Storage Center HBAs to communicate.
   • iSCSI – Configure the iSCSI initiator on the server to use the Storage Center HBAs as the target.
   • SAS – Directly connect the controller to a server using the SAS front-end connections.
2. If the Dell Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
3. Click the Storage tab.
4. Select the server in the Storage tab navigation pane.
5. In the right pane, click Add HBAs to Server.
   The Add HBAs to Server dialog box opens.
6. Select or define one or more HBAs for the server.
   • If one or more server HBAs are visible to the Storage Center, select the checkboxes of the HBAs for the server in the Select HBAs to add to server table.
   • If a server HBA is not visible to the Storage Center, click Manually Add HBA to define an HBA manually.
     NOTE:For SAS front-end ports, use the SAS device name as the world wide name to manually add the HBA.
7. Click OK.