You are managing a Hitachi Device Manager environment and want to use the Element Manager to configure the Fibre Channel ports on a Hitachi VSP storage system. Which two Fibre Channel port…

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Options

• AReset the port.
• BSet the connection type.
• CSet the port attribute.
• DSet the port offline.

• A
  6% (2)
• B
  86% (31)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

When using the Element Manager within Hitachi Device Manager to manage Fibre Channel ports on a VSP system, the permitted operations are setting the connection type (B) and setting the port attribute (C) - these are standard configuration actions that Element Manager exposes for FC port management, allowing administrators to define how ports communicate and what role they play (e.g., initiator, target).

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Reset the port): Port resets are a disruptive, hardware-level operation not exposed through Element Manager's FC port configuration interface - this would typically require a different management path or direct CLI access.
• D (Set the port offline): Taking a port offline is a availability/state operation, not a configuration operation; Element Manager's FC port scope is limited to configuration attributes, not port state toggling.

Memory tip: Think "BC = Build Configuration" - connection type and port attribute are both about defining how the port is set up, which is exactly what a configuration manager like Element Manager is designed for. Operations that change port state (offline) or cause disruption (reset) fall outside its scope.

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