Administrator Guide
Discover and Select an Uninitialized Storage Center
The rst page of the Discover and Congure Uninitialized Storage Centers wizard provides a list of prerequisite actions and
information required before setting up a
Storage Center.
Prerequisites
• The host server, on which the Storage Manager software is installed, must be on the same subnet or VLAN as the Storage
Center.
• Temporarily disable any rewall on the host server that is running the Storage Manager.
• Layer 2 multicast must be allowed on the network.
• Make sure that IGMP snooping is disabled on the switch ports connected to the Storage Center.
Steps
1. Make sure that you have the required information that is listed on the rst page of the wizard. This information is needed to
congure the Storage Center.
2. Click Next. The Select a Storage Center to Initialize page appears and lists the uninitialized Storage Centers discovered by the
wizard.
NOTE: If the wizard does not discover the Storage Center that you want to initialize, perform one of the following
actions:
• Make sure that the Storage Center hardware is physically attached to all necessary networks.
• Click Rediscover.
• Click Troubleshoot Storage Center Hardware Issue to learn more about reasons why the Storage Center is not
discoverable.
• Follow the steps in Deploy the Storage Center Using the Direct Connect Method.
3. Select the Storage Center to initialize.
4. (Optional) Click Enable Storage Center Indicator to turn on the indicator light for the selected Storage Center. You can use the
indicator to verify that you have selected the correct
Storage Center.
5. Click Next.
6. If the Storage Center is partially congured, the Storage Center login pane appears. Enter the management IPv4 address and
the Admin password for the Storage Center, then click Next to continue.
Set System Information
The Set System Information page allows you to enter Storage Center and storage controller conguration information to use when
connecting to the
Storage Center using Storage Manager.
1. Type a descriptive name for the Storage Center in the Storage Center Name eld.
2. Type the system management IPv4 address for the Storage Center in the Virtual Management IPv4 Address eld.
The management IPv4 address is the IP address used to manage the Storage Center and is dierent from a storage controller
IPv4 address.
3. Type an IPv4 address for the management port of each storage controller.
NOTE: The storage controller IPv4 addresses and management IPv4 address must be within the same subnet.
4. Type the subnet mask of the management network in the Subnet Mask eld.
5. Type the gateway address of the management network in the Gateway IPv4 Address eld.
6. Type the domain name of the management network in the Domain Name eld.
7. Type the DNS server addresses of the management network in the DNS Server and Secondary DNS Server elds.
8. Click Next.
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