How to Connect Volume to a Host in pure Flash Array

Volumes must be connected to hosts for the hosts to read and write data on them. To make SAN volumes available to a host after a host has been created and WWNs are added on Pure Flash Array, we must establish a connection between the host and volumes. 

To establish a Host-Volume Connection, we use the purevol connect --host or purehost connect --vol command. Both commands are functionally identical and do the purpose.

Syntax: purevol connect --host HOST --lun LUN VOL

Common arguments are:

              VOL                           volume name
              --host HOST               host name
              --lun LUN                  LUN number

Syntax: purehost connect --lun LUN --vol VOL HOST

Common arguments are:

              HOST                       host name
              --lun LUN                 LUN number
              --vol VOL                 volume name

Eg 1:

  purevol connect --host ESXPROD01 --lun 100 ESXPROD01-VOL1

The above command connects ESXPROD01-VOL1 to host ESXPROD01 with a lun ID 100

Eg 2:            

purehost connect  --lun 100 --vol ESXPROD01-VOL1 ESXPROD01

The above command also establishes host-volume relation by using the purehost connect option.