Deployment Guide

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1 PowerVault NX3600/NX3610 NAS Appliance Overview.................................................................... 5

Supported Hardware.............................................................................................................................................................5

Supported Software..............................................................................................................................................................5

Other Information You May Need....................................................................................................................................... 5

2 Setting Up The Environment......................................................................................................... 7

Choosing The Switch Topology...........................................................................................................................................8

Cabling Overview...................................................................................................................................................................8

Dedicated SAN High-Availability (Recommended)........................................................................................................... 9

Dedicated SAN Solution In The Non-Redundant Option................................................................................................ 10

All-In-One High-Availability Option..................................................................................................................................... 11

All-In-One Non-Redundant Option.................................................................................................................................... 12

Preparing Your Management Station................................................................................................................................ 13

3 Running NAS IDU........................................................................................................................14

Installing NAS IDU................................................................................................................................................................ 14

Launching NAS IDU..............................................................................................................................................................14

Deploying The NAS Appliance Using The NAS IDU......................................................................................................... 14

4 Setting Up Your MD Storage Solution........................................................................................... 17

MD Topology.........................................................................................................................................................................17

Enabling Jumbo Frames On The MD Storage Array........................................................................................................18

Considerations When Creating Disk Groups And Virtual Disks...................................................................................... 18

Creating Disk Groups.......................................................................................................................................................... 20

Creating Disk Groups Automatically.............................................................................................................................21

Creating Disk Groups Manually.....................................................................................................................................21

Creating Virtual Disks Using PowerVault MDSM............................................................................................................ 22

For Version 10.80.x6.47 And Earlier.............................................................................................................................22

For Version 10.84.x6.25 And Later.............................................................................................................................. 22

Creating A Host Group....................................................................................................................................................... 23

Creating A Host................................................................................................................................................................... 23

Adding Virtual Disks To A Host Group.............................................................................................................................. 24

Accessing The NAS Manager Web Interface.................................................................................................................. 24

5 Running The NAS Manager Configuration Wizard..........................................................................25

Configuring DNS..................................................................................................................................................................25

Configuring NTP..................................................................................................................................................................25

Configuring SMTP...............................................................................................................................................................26

Configuring SNMP.............................................................................................................................................................. 26

Formatting And Starting The File System........................................................................................................................26

Creating and Changing Admin Passwords....................................................................................................................... 27

Joining The File System To A Windows Active Directory Domain................................................................................ 27

Configuring The CIFS Protocol..........................................................................................................................................27

Providing UNIX Identity Database Values.........................................................................................................................27

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