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# Create and modify port groups

Port groups contain director and port identification and belong to a masking view. Ports can be added to and removed from the port group. Port groups that are no longer associated with a masking view can be deleted.

## Prerequisites

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

Port groups should contain four or more ports.

Each port in a port group should be on a different director.

A port can belong to more than one port group. However, for storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978, you cannot mix different types of ports (physical FC ports, virtual ports, and iSCSI virtual ports) within a single port group.

## About this task

## Steps

1. Select the storage system.
2. Select Hosts > Port Groups.
3. Click Create or select an existing port group and click Modify.
4. Type a Port Group Name.
   Port group names must be unique from other port groups on the storage system and cannot exceed 64 characters. Only alphanumeric characters, underscores ( _ ), and hyphens (-) are allowed. Port group names are case-insensitive.
5. Do one of the following:
   - For storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978:

     Select the appropriate filter to filter the port list by Fibre or iSCSI.

   - For storage systems running PowerMaxOS 10 (6079):

     Select the appropriate filter to filter the port list by SCSI FC, NVMe/FC (for storage systems running PowerMaxOS 10.1.0.0 or later), iSCSI, or NVMe/TCP.

   The following properties display for the available ports listed:

   Dir:Port—Storage system director and port in the port group.

   Identifier—Port identifier

   Port Groups—Number of port groups where the port is a member.

   Masking Views—Number of masking views where the port is associated.

   Volumes—Number of volumes in the port group.

6. Select one or more ports.
7. Do one of the following:
   - Click Run Now to perform the operation now.
   - Expand Run Now and click Add to Job List to add this task to the job list, from which you can schedule or run the task at your convenience. For more information, see Schedule jobs and Preview jobs.