Setup Guide
Table Of Contents
- Getting Started With Your System
- Getting Started With Your System
- Before You Begin
- Other Documentation and Media You May Need
- Supported Operating Systems
- Common Configurations
- Installation and Configuration
- Unpacking the System
- Installing the Rails and System in a Rack
- Connecting the Power Cable(s)
- Securing the Power Cable(s)
- Installing and Removing SFP Modules
- Installing and Removing Fibre Channel Cables
- Cabling Your Expansion Enclosure
- Turning On the Storage Array
- Installing the Bezel
- Installing HBAs and Drivers
- Installing the MD Storage Software
- Locating Your Service Tag
- NOM Information (Mexico Only)
- Technical Specifications
- Guide de mise en route
- Avant de commencer
- Autre documentation et support dont vous pourriez avoir besoin
- Systèmes d'exploitation pris en charge
- Configurations courantes
- Installation et configuration
- Déballage du système
- Installation des rails et du système dans un rack
- Branchement du ou des câbles d'alimentation
- Fixation du ou des câbles d'alimentation
- Installation et retrait des modules SFP
- Installation et retrait de câbles Fibre Channel
- Câblage de votre boîtier d'extension
- Mise sous tension de la matrice
- Installation du cadre
- Installation de cartes HBA et de pilotes
- Installation du logiciel MD Storage
- Identification du numéro de service
- Informations NOM (Mexique uniquement)
- Caractéristiques techniques
- Introdução ao uso do sistema
- Antes de começar
- Outros documentos e mídias dos quais você pode precisar
- Sistemas operacionais suportados
- Configurações comuns
- Instalação e configuração
- Remover o sistema da embalagem
- Instalar os trilhos e o sistema no rack
- Conectar o(s) cabo(s) de alimentação
- Prender o(s) cabo(s) de alimentação
- Instalar e remover módulos SFP
- Instalar e remover cabos de canal de fibra
- Cabeamento do gabinete de expansão
- Ligar a matriz de armazenamento
- Instalar o bezel
- Instalar HBAs e drivers
- Instalar o software de armazenamento MD
- Localizar a etiqueta de serviço
- Informações da norma NOM (apenas para o México)
- Especificações técnicas
- Introducción al sistema
- Antes de comenzar
- Documentación y soportes adicionales útiles
- Sistemas operativos admitidos
- Configuraciones comúnes
- Instalación y configuración
- Desembalaje del sistema
- Instalación de los rieles y del sistema en un bastidor
- Conexión de los cables de alimentación
- Fijación de los cables de alimentación
- Instalación y extracción de módulos SFP
- Instalación y extracción de cables Fibre Channel
- Cableado del gabinete de expansión
- Encendido de la matriz de almacenamiento
- Instalación del bisel
- Instalación de adaptadores HBA y controladores
- Instalación del software MD Storage
- Localización de la etiqueta de servicio
- Información de la NOM (sólo para México)
- Especificaciones técnicas
Getting Started With Your System
3
Before You Begin
NOTE:
Throughout the document, Dell PowerVault MD3600f series storage
array refers to both Dell PowerVault MD3600f and Dell PowerVault MD3620f.
Dell PowerVault MD1200 series expansion enclosure refers to both
Dell PowerVault MD1200 and Dell PowerVault MD1220.
Before setting up your PowerVault MD3600f series storage array, you must
consider certain best practices to ensure that your storage array operates at
maximum efficiency and offers full redundancy (if required).
• To enable redundancy, two Fibre Channel (FC) host bus adapters (HBA)
must be connected from the host system to the storage array. If
redundancy is not required, only one FC HBA is connected to the storage
array. See the
Support Matrix
for a list of supported HBAs and
Configuring
Fibre Channel With the Dell MD3600f Series Storage Array
for information
about installing HBA drivers. You can download both documents from
support.dell.com/manuals
.
• Before connecting any cables between the host server and storage array,
physically label each port and connector.
• Always follow proper power-up and power-down procedures when cycling
power across the network. You must also ensure that critical network
components are on separate power circuits.
Working With SFP Modules and Fiber Optic Cables
NOTE:
SFP+ modules are supported for 8 GB Fibre Channel connections.
This document refers to SFP generically.
Each storage controller can have up to four FC host ports. A small-form-factor
pluggable (SFP) module is used to connect a host port to a host or switch.
The SFP module is inserted into the port, and then a fiber optic cable is
inserted into the SFP module. The other end of the fiber optic cable is
connected to an optical interface connector either in a FC HBA on a host or
a switch. SFP modules are laser products.
WARNING:
Data processing environments can contain equipment transmitting
on system links with laser modules that operate at greater than Class 1 power
levels. Never look into the end of an optical fiber cable or open receptacle.