Deployment Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Deployment Guide
- Contents
- Before you begin
- Mount the enclosures in the rack
- Connect to the management network
- Cable host servers to the storage system
- Cabling considerations
- Connecting the enclosure to hosts
- Host connection
- Connect power cables and power on the storage system
- Perform system and storage setup
- Record storage system information
- Using guided setup
- Web browser requirements and setup
- Access the PowerVault Manager
- Update firmware
- Use guided setup in the PowerVault Manager Welcome panel
- Perform host setup
- Host system requirements
- Windows hosts
- Configuring a Windows host with FC HBAs
- Configuring a Windows host with iSCSI network adapters
- Configuring a Windows host with SAS HBAs
- Linux hosts
- Configuring a Linux host with FC HBAs
- Configure a Linux host with iSCSI network adapters
- Attach a Linux host with iSCSI network adapters to the storage system
- Assign IP addresses for each network adapter connecting to the iSCSI network
- Register the Linux host with iSCSI network adapters and create volumes
- Enable and configure DM Multipath on the Linux host with iSCSI network adapters
- Create a Linux file system on the volumes
- SAS host server configuration for Linux
- VMware ESXi hosts
- Fibre Channel host server configuration for VMware ESXi
- iSCSI host server configuration for VMware ESXi
- Attach an ESXi host with network adapters to the storage system
- Configure the VMware ESXi VMkernel
- Configure the software iSCSI adapter on the ESXi host
- Register an ESXi host with a configured software iSCSI adapter and create and map volumes
- Enable multipathing on an ESXi host with iSCSI volumes
- Volume rescan and datastore creation for an ESXi hosts with iSCSI network adapters
- SAS host server configuration for VMware ESXi
- Citrix XenServer hosts
- Fibre Channel host server configuration for Citrix XenServer
- iSCSI host server configuration for Citrix XenServer
- Attach a XenServer host with network adapters to the storage system
- Configure a software iSCSI adapter on a XenServer host
- Configure the iSCSI IQN on a XenServer host
- Enable Multipathing on a XenServer host
- Register a XenServer host with a software iSCSI adapter and create volumes
- Create a Storage Repository for a volume on a XenServer host with a software iSCSI adapter
- SAS host server configuration for Citrix XenServer
- Troubleshooting and problem solving
- Locate the service tag
- Operators (Ops) panel LEDs
- Initial start-up problems
- Cabling for replication
- SFP+ transceiver for FC/iSCSI ports
- System Information Worksheet
- Setting network port IP addresses using the CLI port and serial cable
Table 12. Ops panel functions—2U enclosure front panel (continued)
No. Indicator Status
2 Status/Health
Constant blue: system is powered on and controller is ready
Blinking blue (2 Hz): Enclosure management is busy
Constant amber: module fault present
Blinking amber: logical fault (2 s on, 1 s off)
3 Unit identification display Green (seven-segment display: enclosure sequence)
4 Identity
Blinking blue (0.25 Hz): system ID locator is activated
Off: Normal state
System power LED (green)
LED displays green when system power is available. LED is off when system is not operating.
Status/Health LED (blue/amber)
LED illuminates constant blue when the system is powered on and functioning normally. The LED blinks blue when enclosure
management is busy, for example, when booting or performing a firmware update. The LEDs help you identify which component
is causing the fault. LED illuminates constant amber when experiencing a system hardware fault which could be associated with
a Fault LED on a controller module, IOM, or PCM. LED illuminates blinking amber when experiencing a logical fault.
Unit identification display (green)
The UID is a dual seven-segment display that shows the numerical position of the enclosure in the cabling sequence. The UID is
also called the enclosure ID.
NOTE: The controller enclosure ID is 0.
Identity LED (blue)
When activated, the Identity LED blinks at a rate of 1 second on, 1 second off to locate the chassis within a data center. The
locate function can be enabled or disabled through SES. Pressing the button changes the state of the LED.
NOTE: The enclosure ID cannot be set using the Identity button.
5U enclosure Ops panel
The front of the enclosure has an Ops panel that is located on the left ear flange of the 5U chassis.
The Ops panel is part of the enclosure chassis, but is not replaceable on-site.
The Ops panel provides the functions that are shown in the following figure and listed in Ops panel functions – 5U enclosure
front panel on page 73.
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Troubleshooting and problem solving