Specifications

A Principled Technologies test report 40
The datacenter in a box performance test: Comparing Dell and HP
blade solutions
Dell EqualLogic PS-M4110 solution
HP D2200sb + VSA solution
12. At the Choose a Management Group screen, leave
New Management Group selected, and click Next.
13. At the Create a Management Group screen, enter
an appropriate management group name, and
click Next.
14. At the Add Administrative User screen, enter a
user name and password, and click Next.
15. At the Management Group Time screen, select
either the appropriate NTP server or manually set
the time, and click Next.
16. At the DNS information screen, enter the
applicable DNS information. For our testing
purposes, we did not need to configure email
notifications, so we left this blank and clicked
Next, then Accept Incomplete.
17. At the SMTP settings screen, enter the applicable
SMTP server information. For our testing
purposes, we did not need to configure email
notifications, so we left this blank and clicked
Next, then Accept Incomplete.
18. At the Create a Cluster screen, leave the default
selection of Standard Cluster, and click Next.
19. At the Create Cluster screen, enter a cluster name,
and click Next.
20. At the Assign a Virtual IP and Subnet Masks
screen, click Add..
21. Enter a virtual IP address and subnet mask, and
click OK. Click Next.
22. At the Create Volume screen, enter the
appropriate information for the first volume you
wish to create, and click Finish.
23. At the licensing warning pop-up, click OK.
24. At the Summary screen, click Close.
25. At the registration reminder pop up window, click
OK.
Adding and assigning the blade server to the new volume
1. Click StartAdministrative ToolsiSCSI Initiator.
2. When prompted to start the Microsoft iSCSI
service, click Yes.