mkportset

Use the mkportset command to create a new portset.

Syntax

Parameters

-name portset_name

(Optional) Specifies the name of the portset.

-type portset_type

(Optional) Specifies the type of portset. It can be host, replication, highspeedreplication or management type portset.

-ownershipgroup owner_id | owner_name

(Optional) Specifies the name or ID of the ownership group to which the object is added. This option is available only to the global user.

-replicationportsetlinkuid replication_portset_link_uid

(Optional) Specifies the replicationportsetlinkuid of the host attach portset object used for identifying the replicated portset. The value must be a 32 character hexadecimal string.

-porttype fc | ethernet

(Optional) Specifies the type of port that can be mapped to the portset. By default mkportset creates an ethernet portset if -porttype parameter is not provided. High-speed replication portset has to be of type ethernet only

-autozoneenabled yes | no

(Optional) Specifies that auto zoning is enabled for the new portset.

-autozonepolicy one_to_one | one_to_one_all_fabrics

(Optional) Specifies the autozone policy to be applied to the portset.

Note:

You can specify autozonepolicy only when autozoneenabled is set to yes.
An existing host can be made auto zoning capable by adding it to an auto zoning enabled portset. .

Note: By default there are 4 portsets defined on a system -portset0, -portset1, -portset2 and -portset3. The administrator must create a new portsets and associate them with host or partnership objects as necessary. By default a portset type is host attachment. Ownership rules:

Global owner is allowed to create a portset with restricted owner ID A.
Restricted owner ID A can create portset with owner ID A.

Note:

The mkip command can map an IP address with a portset of -porttype ethernet only.
The addfcportsetmember command can map a Fibre Channel port with a portset of -porttype fc only.
The mkhost command for Fibre Channel or NVMe over Fibre Channel hosts can map the host object with a portset of -porttype fc.
The mkhost command for iSCSI, NVMe over RDMA , and NVMe over TCP can map the host object with a portset of -porttype ethernet.

Note: A global admin by default create portsets with no ownership which can be used by restricted users. Alternatively a global owner may use -ownershipgroup to assign the new portset to a specific ownership group. A restricted user cannot use the -ownershipgroup parameter.

Note: This command is available during the upgrade process.

A concise invocation example

mkportset

The resulting output:

Portset, id [7], successfully created