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:

  1. Expand End Devices and then select SSM Features in the Physical Attributes pane.
  2. Click the SSM tab.
  3. Click Create Row to enable a new service on an SSM.
  4. Select the switch and SSM card you want to configure.
  5. 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.
  6. Select the port range you want to provision for using this service (starting port and ending port).
  7. Note     The port range must be a multiple of four (for example fc4/1 through fc4-12).

  8. Select the feature you want to enable on these ports from the drop-down list of services.
  9. Set the PartnerImageURI field if you are enabling a third-party application that requires an image loaded onto the SSM.
  10. 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:

  1. Expand End Devices and then select SSM Features in the Physical Attributes pane.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Optionally, enable SCSI flow statistics on this SCSI flow by checking the Enable Statistics check box.
  5. Optionally, change the BufCount value to set the number of 2K buffers used by the SCSI target.
  6. Click Create to create this SCSI flow or click Cancel to cancel this change.


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