Enabling Intelligent Storage Services
To enable Intelligent Storage Services for an SSM and provision all ports or a group of ports to use these services using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
- Expand End Devices and then select SSM Features in the Physical Attributes pane.
- Click the SSM tab.
- Click Create Row to enable a new service on an SSM.
- Select the switch and SSM card you want to configure.
- Optionally, uncheck the Use All Ports on Module check box if you want to provision a subset of the ports on the card to use this service.
- Select the port range you want to provision for using this service (starting port and ending port).
Note The port range must be a multiple of four (for example fc4/1 through fc4-12).
- Select the feature you want to enable on these ports from the drop-down list of services.
- Set the PartnerImageURI field if you are enabling a third-party application that requires an image loaded onto the SSM.
- Click Create to create this row and enable this service or click Cancel to discard all changes.
To configure a Fibre Channel using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:
- Expand End Devices and then select SSM Features in the Physical Attributes pane.
- Click Create Row in the Information pane to create a SCSI flow or click a row in the FCWA table to modify an existing SCSI flow.
- Select the initiator and target WWNs and VSAN IDs and check the WriteAcc check box to enable Fibre Channel write acceleration on this SCSI flow.
- Optionally, enable SCSI flow statistics on this SCSI flow by checking the Enable Statistics check box.
- Optionally, change the BufCount value to set the number of 2K buffers used by the SCSI target.
- Click Create to create this SCSI flow or click Cancel to cancel this change.
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