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# View masking views

A masking view is a container of a storage group, a port group, and an initiator group, and makes the storage group visible to the host.

## Prerequisites

See Roles and associated permissions to determine the user roles that can perform this task.

## About this task

You can also perform this operation from vVol Dashboard > PE Masking Views and the vVol Dashboard > vVol NVMe/TCP Masking Views list views.

Some of the following properties and controls are environment-specific and may appear in a different order or not at all.

## Steps

1. Select the storage system.
2. Do one of the following:
   - Select Hosts > Masking View to open the Masking Views list view.
   - Select Storage > vVol Dashboard > PE Masking Views to open the PE Masking Views list view.
   - Select Storage > vVol Dashboard > vVol NVMe Masking Views to open the vVol NVMe Masking Views list view.

   Use the Masking view list view to view and manage masking views.

   The following properties display:

   - Name—User-defined masking view name
   - Host/Host Group—Name of the associated host or host group
   - Port Group—Name of the associated port group
   - Storage Group—Name of the associated storage group

   To view the details of a masking group, select the masking group and click . The following properties are displayed:

   - Name—User-defined masking view name
   - Capacity (GB)—Total capacity, in GB, of all volumes in the masking view
   - Host—Name of the associated host
   - Port Group—Name of the associated port group
   - Storage Group—Name of the associated storage group
   - Initiators—This number is the number of primary initiators that are contained in the masking view. This number does not include any initiators that are in cascaded initiator groups that may be part of the masking view.
   - Ports—Number of ports contained in the masking view
   - Volumes—Number of volumes in the storage group contained in the masking view
   - Last Update Time—The last update time
   - View Last Update Time—The view last update time

   Depending on the options chosen, some of the following controls are available:

   - Create— Create masking views
   - Rename— Rename masking views
   - View Path Details— View masking view connections
   - Delete— Delete masking views

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