Install Guide

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3 Dell EMC SC Series Storage with SAS Front-end Support for Microsoft Hyper-V | 3026-CD-WS | V3
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
Audience ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Feedback ............................................................................................................................................................................ 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Supported hardware ........................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Microsoft Windows Server clustering and Hyper-V ............................................................................................ 6
1.3 Transport options ................................................................................................................................................ 6
2 SAS FE host path configuration options ...................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Multipath configuration ....................................................................................................................................... 8
3 Configure Hyper-V hosts to access SC Series arrays with SAS FE ports ................................................................. 16
3.1 Prepare the environment .................................................................................................................................. 16
3.2 Install and configure a SAS HBA in each Windows host server ...................................................................... 17
3.3 Configure SAS FE fault domains to support MPIO hosts ................................................................................. 20
3.4 Connect Windows host servers to the SC Series array with SAS cables ........................................................ 23
3.5 Create server objects ....................................................................................................................................... 24
3.6 Create cluster server object on the storage array ............................................................................................ 27
3.7 Create and map storage volumes to the server cluster.................................................................................... 28
3.8 Configure MPIO on the host servers ................................................................................................................ 31
4 Create a Hyper-V cluster ............................................................................................................................................ 34
4.1 Validate the servers to be clustered ................................................................................................................. 34
4.2 Create a new Hyper-V cluster .......................................................................................................................... 36
4.3 Convert the cluster disk to a cluster shared volume......................................................................................... 37
5 Support for guest VMs with SAS pass-through disks ................................................................................................ 38
5.1 Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 ................................................................................................................. 38
5.2 Windows Server 2012 R2 and newer ............................................................................................................... 39
A Additional resources ................................................................................................................................................... 40