Deployment Guide

■ Prerequisite

– Multiple appliances – Eight RJ45/Cat 5e or better cables for each appliance

• Fibre Channel with 10GbE appliance:

– Single appliance – Two LC optical ber cables or twinax cables (controllers are directly connected to each other; two

Twinax cables shipped with each appliance)

– Multiple appliances – Four LC optical ber cables or twinax cables for each appliance

• 10GbE iSCSI appliance – None (shared with SAN cables)

□ (10GbE optical networks only) Intel SFP+ transceivers purchased from Dell for use in an FS8600 appliance

• Fibre Channel with 10GbE appliance:

– Client network – Four Intel SFP+ transceivers for each appliance

– Internal network – Four Intel SFP+ transceivers for each appliance

• 10GbE iSCSI appliance:

– Client network – Four Intel SFP+ transceivers for each appliance

– SAN/internal network – Four Intel SFP+ transceivers for each appliance

NOTE: The FS8600 appliance is compatible with specic Intel SFP+ transceivers purchased only from Dell. Other

SFP+ transceiver models do not work in the FS8600 appliance.

Network Credentials

Make sure the following network credentials are available to complete the deployment successfully.

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Prerequisite

□ (Fibre Channel only) Credentials to update Fibre Channel zoning

□ (Active Directory only) Site information and credentials to join the FluidFS cluster to Active Directory

Any of the following domain users can be used to join the cluster to Active Directory:

• Domain administrator account (preferred method)

• Domain account that has been delegated the join a computer to the domain privilege and full control over all

computer objects in the domain

•

Domain Organizational Unit (OU) administrator account that has been delegated the join a computer to the

domain privilege and full control over objects within that OU, including computer objects

– Before joining the FluidFS cluster to the domain, a computer object must be created by the OU administrator for the

FluidFS cluster.

– The FluidFS cluster computer object name and NetBIOS name must match.

– The FluidFS cluster computer object permissions must be congured to allow the OU administrator account to join it

to a domain.

□ (LDAP/NIS only) Site information and credentials to congure LDAP or NIS directory services for the FluidFS cluster

□ (Optional) Credentials to add DNS records for the FluidFS cluster

SAN and Internal Network for Fibre Channel Appliances

The following prerequisites apply to Fibre Channel with 1GbE appliances and Fibre Channel with 10GbE appliances.

Fibre Channel SAN Fabric

Make sure the Fibre Channel SAN fabric is ready for deployment.

Deployment Prerequisites