FC Target In DSS - Trouble Getting Started

[Crosscreek]

I'm using the new DSS demo d/led today. Qlogic 2-port 2gb QLA2342

First of all, if I initialize when creating a FC logical volume, the system slows to an unusable crawl (5-10 minutes to load a page). If I don't initialize everything is normal.

I created aliases for each port and added the LV to the "Default" FC target. But the Default target will not allow me to add Aliases. The menu isn't even there. I have to create a new target (can you even delete FC targets?) and then do it.

When I made the aliases for each port, I just named them "Port1" and "Port2". I assigned the WWN numbers of the ports which I copied down from looking in the console utility (ctrl-F).

I connected my client machine directly to it. It got a link and autoconfigured the port for 2gbps, point-to-point.

But the OS did not detect a new disk drive.

[Crosscreek]

I got it working. I thought the alias was for the target's WWNs - not the WWN of the server/client. Thinking a target's port had to be added to the group. Didn't realize it was an access list.

[gharding]

Aliases are not required if the volumes are added to the default FC Group as all clients/initiators have access by default to the default group.