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Hardware Installation Guide - Page 1
Dell/EMC AX4-5 Fibre Channel Storage Arrays With
Microsoft® Windows Server® Failover Clusters
Hardware Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
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... Switched Fabric 39
Using Worldwide Port Name Zoning 39
Installing and Configuring the Shared Storage System 41
Installing Navisphere Storage System Initialization Utility 41 Installing the Expansion Pack Using Navisphere Express 42 Installing Navisphere Server Utility 43 Registering a Server With a Storage System . . . . 43 Assigning the Virtual Disks to Cluster Nodes. . . . 44 Advanced...
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...Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals. For more information on deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2008 operating systems, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals.
For a list of recommended operating systems, hardware components, and driver or firmware versions...
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... (for Windows Server 2008) clustering and provides the following features: • 8-Gbps and 4-Gbps Fibre Channel technologies • High availability of resources to network clients • Redundant paths to the shared storage • Failure recovery for applications and services • Flexible maintenance capabilities, allowing you to repair, maintain, or
upgrade a node or storage system...
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... cluster nodes.
Table 1-1. Cluster Node Requirements
Component Cluster nodes
RAM HBA ports
NICs (public and private networks)
Internal disk controller
Minimum Requirement
A minimum of two identical Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers are required. The maximum number of nodes that is supported depends on the variant of the Windows Server operating system used in your cluster, and on the...
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Can share one or more supported storage systems using optional software that is available for your storage system. See "Installing and Configuring the Shared Storage System" on page 41.
The storage systems work together with the following hardware components:
• Disk processor enclosure (DPE)-Configured with storage processors that control the RAID arrays in the storage system and provide...
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... located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals.
• The Rack Installation Guide included with your rack solution describes how to install your system into a rack.
• The Getting Started Guide provides an overview of initially setting up your system.
• The Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide provides more...
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• The Dell Cluster Configuration Support Matrices provides a list of recommended operating systems, hardware components, and driver or firmware versions for your Dell Windows Server Failover Cluster.
• The HBA documentation provides installation instructions for the HBAs.
• Systems management software documentation describes the features, requirements, installation, and basic ...
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... Your Direct-Attached Cluster
NOTE: Ensure that the management port on each storage processor is connected to the storage server with the management station, using an Ethernet network cable.
A direct-attached cluster configuration consists of redundant Fibre Channel host bus adapter (HBA) ports cabled directly to a Dell/EMC storage system. Direct-attached configurations are self-contained and do...
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...Assigning Drive Letters and Mount Points" section of Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide or Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals.
Figure 2-11 provides an example of cabling the cluster nodes to four Dell/EMC storage systems...
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... Windows Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide or Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals.
3 Deploy the operating system (including any relevant service pack and hotfixes), network adapter drivers, and storage adapter drivers (including Multipath I/O drivers...
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... of Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide or Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com/manuals.
6 Establish the physical storage topology and any required storage network settings to provide connectivity between the storage array...
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... Windows Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide.
The following sub-sections describe steps that must be taken to enable communication between the cluster nodes and your shared Dell/EMC AX4-5 Fibre Channel storage array, and to present disks from the storage array to the cluster. Install and configure the following components on each node:
1 The Fibre Channel HBA(s) and driver...
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...website at dell.com/ha for information about supported HBA controllers and drivers.
Installing EMC PowerPath
EMC® PowerPath® detects a failed storage path and automatically re-routes I/Os through an alternate path. PowerPath also provides load balancing of data from the server to the storage system. To install PowerPath:
1 Insert the PowerPath installation media in the CD/DVD drive. 2 On...
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... isolate heterogeneous servers and storage systems from each other.
Using Worldwide Port Name Zoning
PowerEdge cluster configurations support worldwide port name zoning.
A worldwide name (WWN) is a unique numeric identifier assigned to Fibre Channel interfaces, such as HBA ports, storage processor (SP) ports, and Fibre Channel to SCSI bridges or storage network controllers (SNCs).
Preparing Your...
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...initialize your AX4-5 storage system. Using the utility, you can configure the IP address, subnet mask, default gateway address for the storage system's SPs, and assign user names and password for storage system access.
1 To install the software from the support media that is shipped with the storage system: a Insert the installation media in the CD/DVD drive. b In the Choose Language Setup screen...
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... the management host, open an Internet browser.
2 Enter the IP address of an SP in the storage system.
3 Log in to Navisphere Express with the username and password that you specified during the storage system initialization.
4 In the Navisphere Express navigation pane under System, click Software.
5 In the System Software screen, click Upgrade Software.
6 Insert the expansion pack media...
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... and/or IP address on the storage array
• Updating file system information
• Adding, removing, or replacing an HBA • Starting and stopping a snapshot
To install Navisphere Server Utility: 1 Log in to the Windows server using an account with administrative privileges. 2 Insert the installation media in the CD/DVD drive. 3 In the Choose Language Setup screen, select...
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... Copy allows you to move data between storage systems without using host processor cycles or LAN bandwidth. It can be used in conjunction with SnapView™ or MirrorView and is managed from within Navisphere Manager.
Navishphere Manager Optionally, you can also upgrade Navisphere Express to EMC Navisphere® Manager-a centralized storage management application used to configure Dell...
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Installing and Configuring a Failover Cluster
You can configure the operating system services on your Dell Windows Server failover cluster, after you have established the private and public networks and have assigned the shared disks from the storage array to the cluster nodes. The procedures for configuring the failover cluster are different depending on the Windows Server operating system you...