Deployment Guide

48 Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
Configure Host Access
This section helps you configure the connection between the host servers and
the virtual disks on the storage array. You must perform this step before
mapping virtual disks to host servers, or whenever you connect new host
servers to the storage array.
1
Launch MD Storage Manager.
2 Click Configure and select Configure Host Access (Manual) .
3 At Enter host name , enter the host server to be available to the storage
array for virtual disk mapping.
This can be an informal name, not necessarily a name used to identify the
host server to the network.
4 In the Select host type drop-down menu, select the host type.
For a Non-Redundant Configuration, select
Windows MSCS Cluster -
Single Path
.
For a Redundant Configuration with Dual SAS 5/E HBAs, select
Windows
2000/Server 2003 Clustered
.
5 Click OK to configure access to the array for the hosts you selected.
6 If your iSCSI initiator shows up in the list of Known iSCSI Initiators ,
ensure it is highlighted. Click
Add, and then click Next. Otherwise, click
New and enter the iSCSI Initiator Name . The iSCSI initiator name can
be found on the
General tab of the iSCSI Initiator Properties window.
Click
Next to proceed.
7 Choose whether the host server will be part of a host server group that will
share access to the same virtual disks as other host servers. Select
Yes only
if the host is part of a Microsoft cluster. Click
Next .
8 Click Finish .
Creating a Host Group
1 Click Modify and then click the Modify Host Topology link.
2 Click the Create Host Group link on the Modify Host Topology window.
The
Create Host Group window appears.
3 Type a name for the new host group in the text box.
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