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purehost commands

The purehost command displays and manage Host objects in Pure Flash Storage Array

Below list contains some of the most useful purehost commands.

• purehost connect MY-SERVER-001 --vol MY_VOL_001

  Connect volume MY_VOL_001 to host MY-SERVER-001. This will Provide the R/W access to the volume.Next available lun address will used by default.
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• purehost connect MY-SERVER-001 --vol MY_VOL_001 --lun 10

  Connect volume MY_VOL_001 to host MY-SERVER-001 and assign LUN id 10. This will Provide the R/W access to the volume.
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• purehost connect MY-SERVER-001 MY-SERVER-002 --vol MY_VOL_001

  Connect volume MY_VOL_001 to hosts MY-SERVER-001 and MY-SERVER-002
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• purehost create MY-SERVER-001

  Create a host object called MY-SERVER-001. HBA wwns can be added later using purehost setattr command.
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• purehost create MY-SERVER-001 --wwnlist 1000000000000001,10:00:00:00:00:00:00:01

  Create a host object called MY-SERVER-001 and add HBA wwns to it
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• purehost create MY-SERVER-001 MY-SERVER-002

  Create hosts MY-SERVER-001 and MY-HOST-002
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• purehost delete MY-SERVER-001

  Delete host MY-SERVER-001
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• purehost delete MY-SERVER-001 MY-SERVER-002

  Delete hosts MY-SERVER-001 MY-SERVER-002
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• purehost disconnect MY-SERVER-001 --vol MY_VOL_001

  Disconnect volume MY_VOL_001 from host MY-SERVER-001. This will remove the visibility of the volume to the host.
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• purehost disconnect MY-SERVER-001 MY-SERVER-002 --vol MY_VOL_001

  Disconnect volume MY_VOL_001 from hosts MY-SERVER-001 and MY-SERVER-002
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• purehost list

  List all the hosts in a Flash Array with its member WWNs or IQNs or NQNs. This will also show the Host Groups if it part of any.
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• purehost list --all

  List all the hosts in a Flash Array along with its member initiators connected to volumes through target ports
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• purehost list --connect

  List all the hosts in a Flash Array which have connected volumes
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• purehost list --connect --private

  List all the hosts with non shared volumes. Volumes are not assigned through hostgroup.
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• purehost list --connect --shared

  List all the hosts with shared volumes assigned through hostgroup
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• purehost list --filter "wwn='1000000000000003'"

  Display the host with WWN 1000000000000003 as a member
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• purehost list --personality

  Display the list hosts along with the personality set against each. The personality is define using the purehost setattr command.
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• purehost list MY-SERVER*

  Display the details of all the Hosts those name start with MY-SERVER
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• purehost list MY-SERVER-001

  Display the details of Host MY-SERVER-001
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• purehost list MY-SERVER-001 --connect

  List all the volumes connected to Host MY-SERVER-001
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• purehost list MY-SERVER-001 --personality

  Display the personality of host MY-SERVER-001
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• purehost rename MY-SERVER-001 YOUR-SERVER-001

  Rename host MY-SERVER-001 to YOUR-SERVER-001
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• purehost setattr MY-SERVER-001 --addwwnlist 1000000000000003

  Add new HBA wwn 1000000000000003 to host MY-HOST-001. 1000000000000003 should not be part of any other host.
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• purehost setattr MY-SERVER-001 --personality esxi

  Set the personality of host MY-SERVER-001 to esxi. Some other values are aix, solaris etc..
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• purehost setattr MY-SERVER-001 --remwwnlist 1000000000000003

  Remove HBA wwn 1000000000000003 from host MY-SERVER-001
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• purehost setattr MY-SERVER-001 --wwnlist ""

  Remove all wwns from MY-HOST-001
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• purehost setattr MY-SERVER-001 --wwnlist 1000000000000003

  Update the contents of an existing host with new wwn 1000000000000003
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