Portable Media Storage User Manual
PowerPath Checklist — Existing Windows Server and New Storage System
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Windows Installation Checklists
20 Server With
CX500i Storage
System
Configure
optional CHAP
security for new
iSCSI HBA or NIC
initiators
For iSCSI HBA Initiators
❑
Use QLogic SANsurfer to configure initiator CHAP on the HBA initiators.
❑
Use Navisphere Manager to enable CHAP on the storage system
Storage-system setup
guide and SANsurfer
documentation
For NIC initiators
❑
Use Navisphere Manager to enable CHAP on the storage system.
Storage-system setup
guide and Microsoft
documentation
❑
Use Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator to configure initiator CHAP on any
new NIC initiators.
Storage-system setup
guide and Manager
online help
21 Server
Make LUNs
available to
Windows
❑
Prepare the LUNs to receive data by creating partitions on them. Host connectivity guide
or Windows
documentation
22 Server
Test PowerPath
with a license key
If you have a PowerPath license key
If your PowerPath license key is not registered, the load balancing policy is
restricted to basic failover.
❑
View the LUNs available to the server using the following PowerPath
command:
powermt display dev=all class=clariion
PowerPath product
guide
❑
Choose one available LUN to receive I/O for the test.
❑
View the paths to the chosen LUN using the following PowerPath
command:
powermt display dev=
x
every=2
where
x
is a pseudo device that represents the chosen LUN.
❑
Start I/O to the LUN.
❑
Identify the HBA or NIC sending I/O to LUN by viewing the output of the
powermt display dev=
x
every=2 command, and disconnect the cable to
that HB or NIC.
❑
View the output of the powermt display dev=
x
every=2 command, and
verify that
• The state of the uncabled path(s) becomes “dead.”
• I/O continues to the remaining path(s) to the LUN
,
indicating that the
path failover was successful, and PowerPath is working properly.
❑
Reconnect the cable that you disconnected from the HBA or NIC.
Task
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