Deployment Guide

■ Prerequisite

• If jumbo frames are used on the client network, the switches and clients must be congured to use MTU 9000.

□ (Recommended but not required) Flow control is enabled on the switches.

IP Addresses and Network Infrastructure

Reserve IP addresses for the FluidFS cluster and record relevant network infrastructure information.

■ Prerequisite

□ IP addresses reserved for the FluidFS cluster on the client network

• Two controller IP addresses for each appliance (one for each controller)

• Client VIPs (virtual IPs):

– 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 conguration

• Client network default gateway IP address

• (Optional) DNS server IP addresses

• (Optional) NTP server host name or IP addresses

• (Optional) Active Directory FQDN and administrator credentials to join domain or OU in a domain.

• (Optional) LDAP server host name or IP addresses

• (Optional) NIS server host name or IP addresses

• (Optional) NDMP DMA server IP addresses

• (Optional) Antivirus server host names or IP addresses

Network Ports

Make sure the required and feature-specic ports are allowed on the network.

For a list of ports used by the FluidFS cluster, see the Dell Fluid File System Version 6 Support Matrix. This matrix is available from

dell.com/support.

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Prerequisite

□ Required ports are allowed

□ Feature-specic ports are allowed as needed

SAN Conguration

Make sure that Storage Center software and Dell Storage Manager software are installed and satisfy the deployment prerequisites.

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Prerequisite

□ The Storage Center systems are running the required version of Storage Center software:

• An SC9000 storage system requires Storage Center 6.7.3 or later.

• An SC8000 storage system requires Storage Center 6.5.10 or later.

• An SC7020 storage system requires Storage Center 7.1.4 or later.

• An SC40 storage system requires Storage Center 6.5.10 or later.

Deployment Prerequisites