Dell FluidFS Version 6.
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Contents About This Guide................................................................................................................4 Revision History..................................................................................................................................................................4 1 Deployment Prerequisites................................................................................................ 5 Rack and Infrastructure............................................
About This Guide Use this document to prepare for FS8600 appliance deployment before the deployment team arrives. Items listed in this document are required for a successful deployment.
Deployment Prerequisites Verify that the prerequisites are met before proceeding with the deployment process. Rack and Infrastructure Make sure the rack space and related infrastructure are available for the FS8600 appliances. ■ Prerequisite □ 2U rack space for each FS8600 appliance in an industry-standard 48.3 cm (19 inch) rack • • • • • • □ The rack must be four-post, square-hole or round-hole, and tool-less. The rack must be rated for 540 kg (1200 pounds) static load or greater.
■ □ Prerequisite • – Multiple appliances – Eight RJ45/Cat 5e or better cables for each appliance Fibre Channel with 10GbE appliance: • – Single appliance – Two LC optical fiber cables or twinax cables (controllers are directly connected to each other; two Twinax cables shipped with each appliance) – Multiple appliances – Four LC optical fiber cables or twinax cables for each appliance 10GbE iSCSI appliance – None (shared with SAN cables) (10GbE optical networks only) Intel SFP+ transceivers purchased
■ Prerequisite □ Fibre Channel switches can be reached from the rack. • • □ At least one switch must be available to connect the FluidFS cluster to the Storage Center. An FS8600 appliance cannot be connected directly to a Storage Center. For high availability, deploy two switches (one for each Storage Center fault domain). Fibre Channel switch infrastructure has four ports available for each FS8600 appliance (all four ports must be connected).
■ Prerequisite □ If you are using VLAN tagging, configure one unique VLAN for each iSCSI subnet (Storage Center fault domain). □ Flow Control is enabled on the switches. □ Unicast storm control is disabled on the switches. □ Jumbo frames are enabled on the switches to support a frame size of 9000 bytes. • • Dell PowerConnect and Force10 switches must be configured to 9216 MTU. Switches from vendors other than Dell might require a different MTU configuration to accept 9000-byte frames.
■ Prerequisite – Minimum – One client VIP for each cluster – Flat network recommendation – One client VIP for each cluster – Routed network recommendation – One client VIP for each FS8600 client network port □ (iSCSI only) Four IP addresses reserved on the iSCSI SAN network for each appliance (two for each controller) □ Network resource information for FluidFS cluster configuration • • • • • • • • Client network default gateway IP address (Optional) DNS server IP addresses (Optional) NTP server host n
■ Prerequisite NOTE: Dell recommends using the latest version of Dell Storage Manager software. See the Dell Storage Manager Installation Guide for detailed instructions. □ The Storage Center systems are added to Dell Storage Manager. □ Dell Storage Manager can successfully send data to Dell Technical Support using SupportAssist.
