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Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

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Change the Preferred Physical IO Port for a Virtual IO Port

Under normal operating conditions, a FC or iSCSI virtual port is hosted by its preferred physical port.

Prerequisites

The fault domain must be configured for virtual port mode.

  • If a Storage Center has IO ports with different performance characteristics, you may want to configure a virtual port to use a particular physical port.
  • If a physical port is removed from a Storage Center, the corresponding virtual port must be assigned to a different physical port.
  • A single physical port can be the preferred port for multiple virtual ports.

Steps

  1. If the Dell Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
  2. Click the Hardware tab.
  3. In the Hardware tab navigation pane, expand Controllers→ controller name→ IO Ports→transport type→physical IO port, then select the virtual IO port.
  4. In the right pane, click Edit Settings. The Edit Settings dialog box appears.
  5. From the Preferred Parent drop-down menu, select the WWN of the physical IO port that should host the virtual port when possible.
  6. Click OK.

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