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
Figure 33. LEDs: DDIC – 5U enclosure disk slot in drawer
1. Slide latch (slides left)
2. Latch button (shown in the locked position)
3. Drive Fault LED
Table 20. DDIC LED descriptions
Fault LED (Amber) Status/description*
Off Off (disk module/enclosure)
Off Not present
Blinking: 1 s on/1 s off Identify
Any links down: On Drive link (PHY lane) down
On Fault (leftover/failed/locked-out)
Off Available
Off Storage system: Initializing
Off Storage system: Fault-tolerant
Off Storage system: Degraded (non-critical)
Blinking: 3 s on/1 s off Storage system: Degraded (critical)
Off Storage system: Quarantined
Blinking: 3 s on/1 s off Storage system: Offline (dequarantined)
Off Storage system: Reconstruction
Off Processing I/O (whether from host or internal activity)
*If multiple conditions occur simultaneously, the LED state behaves as indicated in the previous table.
Each DDIC has a single Drive Fault LED. If the Drive Fault LED is lit amber, a disk fault is indicated. If a disk failure occurs, follow
the procedure in “Replacing a DDIC” in the Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Owner’s Manual.
5U controller module or IOM LEDs
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For information about controller module LEDs, see Controller module LEDs on page 80.
● For information about expansion module LEDs, see IOM LEDs on page 80.
5U temperature sensors
Temperature sensors throughout the enclosure and its components monitor the thermal health of the storage system.
Exceeding the limits of critical values causes a notification to occur.
Troubleshooting and problem solving
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