Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Systems Solution Upgrade Guide Model EMU01 w w w. d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l .
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Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terms Used in This Document . 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Upgrading the Storage on Your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Integrated Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure to Expand the Storage on the PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution . . . . . . . . . Adding SATA II Support to Your Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution . 3 . . . . . .
Creating a New Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a New Target in a Clustered Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a Target in a Non-Clustered Environment Unsupported Configurations . 4 4 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Upgrading Your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Gateway Solution With the Latest Solution Stack . . . . . Contents 12 . . . . . . . . . .
Introduction This document provides information about the various upgrade operations you can perform on your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 storage solution. The following upgrade options are discussed in this document: • "Using the Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure to Expand the Storage on the PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution" on page 7. • "Adding SATA II Support to Your Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution" on page 7.
Introduction
Upgrading the Storage on Your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Integrated Solution NOTE: The Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Integrated solution refers to the configuration of PowerVault NX1950 system(s) and PowerVault MD3000 storage array. For more information about this configuration, see the Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems Installation Guide that shipped with your system.
Upgrading Your PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution
Upgrading Your Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated and Gateway Solutions to Enable iSCSI Active/Active Target You can use the Microsoft® internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) Active/Active Target 3.1, to configure Active/Active Targets on your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Integrated and Gateway solutions. To upgrade the iSCSI Active/Active Target 3.1: 1 Perform the steps in "Planning" on page 10. 2 Perform the steps in "Uninstalling the Current Target" on page 10.
Planning If you are retaining the Target names in the new configuration, it is recommended to record the Target names, location of .vhd files, and the Target association of the .vhd files as displayed in Table 3-1 below. Table 3-1. Target-Virtual Disk Matrix Host 1 VHD File Name Target 1 File 1: File 2: File 3: Target 2 . . Target X File 1: Uninstalling the Current Target To uninstall the current 3.0 Target that is configured in a clustered environment: 1 Close all applications.
5 Repeat step 1 to step 4 on the other node(s) and reboot. NOTE: The Dell Software Initialization Wizard and Microsoft Management Console are displayed when you restart the PowerVault NX1950 storage solution. You must close the Microsoft Management Console before installing the new Target. 6 Download the iSCSI 3.1 Software Target from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com and install on all cluster nodes one at a time. To uninstall the current 3.
Creating a New Target Creating a New Target in a Clustered Environment Perform the following steps to re-create the Targets and re-assign the .vhd files: 1 Create a highly available iSCSI instance: a In the Microsoft Management Console, right-click the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target icon and click Create HA instance for iSCSI. b Type the desired name in the Resource Group Name filed and click Add.
d Select the desired highly available iSCSI instance from the drop-down menu and click Next. e Click Finish. The Target is successfully created. 4 Move the volume to the desired highly available iSCSI instance: a Launch the Cluadmin interface and locate the volume that the devices (.vhd files) are located on. The volume may be located in Cluster Groups. b Select the volume, right-click, and select Change Groups.
Creating a Target in a Non-Clustered Environment Perform the following steps to re-create the Targets and re-assign the .vhd files in a non-clustered environment: 1 Perform the following steps to configure the iSCSI Initiator to discover the Target: a In the Discovery tab of the iSCSI Initiator, add the IP address of the newly created highly available iSCSI instance.
3 Import devices by performing the following: a Right-click the Devices icon in the Microsoft Management Console and select Import Virtual Disk. Click Next. b Browse to the volume the .vhd files are located on. Select the .vhd file, click OK. c Click Next and then click Finish. d Repeat step b and step c to import all .vhd files. 4 Create Virtual Disk-Target Associations by performing the following: a Right-click the Target and select Add existing virtual disk.
Configuring 3.
Upgrading Your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Gateway Solution With the Latest Solution Stack To upgrade your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Gateway solution with the latest solution stack, perform the following steps: 1 For the supported solution stack versions, revision numbers, and location of all the components, see the Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems Support Matrix located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
5 Install the new EMC solution stack in the following order: a EMC PowerPath 5.x.x b NaviCLI c NaviAgent d Navi Init wizard e VDS/VSS f Reinstall the Dell Storage Initialization Wizard 6 Restart your system. 7 Re-assign the LUNs to the servers or cluster.
