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 39. Connecting two ME4 Series 2U storage systems for replication– multiple servers, multiple switches, two
networks
1. 2U controller enclosures 2. Two switches (I/O)
3. Connection to host servers (network A) 4. Connection to host servers (network B)
5. Ethernet WAN
Figure 40. Connecting two ME4 Series 5U storage systems for replication – multiple servers, multiple switches, two
networks
1.
5U controller enclosures 2. Two switches (I/O)
3. Connection to host servers (network A) 4. Connection to host servers (network B)
5. Ethernet WAN
Isolating replication faults
Replication is a disaster-recovery feature that performs asynchronous replication of block-level data from a volume in a primary
storage system to a volume in a secondary storage system.
The replication feature creates an internal snapshot of the primary volume, and copies changes to the data since the last
replication to the secondary system using iSCSI or FC connections. The primary volume exists in a primary pool in the primary
storage system. Replication can be completed using either the PowerVault Manager or the CLI.
Replication setup and verification
After storage systems are cabled for replication, you can use the PowerVault Manager to prepare for using the replication
feature. Alternatively, you can use SSH or telnet to access the IP address of the controller module and access the replication
feature using the CLI.
Basic information for enabling the ME4 Series Storage System controller enclosures for replication supplements the
troubleshooting procedures that follow.
● Familiarize yourself with replication content provided in the Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Series Storage System
Administrator’s Guide.
● For virtual replication, perform the following steps to replicate an existing volume to a pool on the peer in the primary system
or secondary system:
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Cabling for replication