HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup System Installation Planning and Preparation Guide and Checklists nl Abstract This guide is intended for customers so that they can prepare for HP service specialists to install the HP StoreOnce Backup System. It will help them ensure that all environmental and networking prerequisites are in place before HP service specialists arrive to install the product and carry out the initial configuration. This document assumes that the product has not yet been delivered.
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Contents 1 Checklists for completion prior to installation..................................................4 Customer details.......................................................................................................................4 Product configuration................................................................................................................5 Location..........................................................................................................................
1 Checklists for completion prior to installation Use the following checklists to ensure that: • You have understood the location, power and networking/fibre channel requirements of the product at the time of placing the order • Prepared the environment and the information that the service specialist requires to install and configure your system The rest of this guide contains detailed information about the choices that are presented in the checklists.
Product configuration Table 2 Product configuration Ensure that the delivered materials match the Bill of Materials (BoM) and that there is no damage to boxes or components.
Location At the time of placing the order, make sure that there is a suitable location with access to install the product. This must be a data center environment and not an office environment. (See Product specifications (page 16) for more details.) It should conform to the following requirements: 1. The receiving dock, storage area, and receiving area are large enough to allow movement of and access to crated or packed equipment. 2.
Backup strategy Your backup strategy will impact upon networking and Fibre Channel decisions. • To use Virtual Tape, Fibre Channel connectivity is required. To ensure tolerance of a node outage HP recommends using a backup application that supports path failover. Please note that the HP Data Protector DFMF (Distributed File Media Format) for Data Protector's virtual full backups is not supported for use with the StoreOnce Backup System. This format is very inefficient with deduplication devices.
4. The following AD domain details will be required to configure AD. Have them ready to provide to the HP Support engineer. • The AD domain name ................................... • The user name and password of the Domain Administrator or a delegated user with Domain Administrative rights ................................... Once the StoreOnce Backup system has been joined to an AD domain, you can configure users or groups on the StoreOnce Backup system.
Network requirements Network requirements must be defined and sufficient IP addresses must be available. There is a brief overview of networking concepts before the checklist but please read Connecting to your network (page 19) before completing the details below. Overview of networking concepts You need to define the networking hierarchy for the HP service specialist in terms of portsets and subnets. 1.
4. Do you have sufficient physical network connections for your configuration? This depends upon the way that you configure each portset in the network configuration. See also Physical Ethernet connection requirements (page 20). 1. How many 1GbE ports will be connected on each node (0, 2 or 4)?...................... 2. How many 10GbE ports will be connected on each node (0 or 2)?...................... 3. How many nodes are you configuring? ........... 4.
7. Have you calculated the total IP addresses required for your configuration? ............................. This value can be calculated after you have completed the tables in the next sub-section. • Management subnet: requires one virtual interface per cluster and one physical IP address per node Total required?................ Range?................ • Physical data subnets: require one virtual interface per node and one physical IP address per node Total required?................ Range(s)?..............
The following table allows you to define the portset first and then itemize the details of the subnet(s) that will use the portset. (You may need to create a separate table if you are configuring multiple VLAN subnets and there is insufficient space below.
Fibre Channel Fibre Channel connection is required, if you are using VTL for backup. It is also required if the StoreOnce Catalyst over Fibre Channel option has been enabled on your system. 1. You have the correct number of physical FC connections; 8 per couplet. 2. Fibre Channel is configured correctly for Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL) and the configuration supports failover. See Fibre Channel connection (page 26).
2 The HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup System An HP service specialist will install the HP StoreOnce Backup System. It is supplied partially configured and is made up as follows: • One or two HP 642 Intelligent Rack Assemblies with stabilizers • The rack contains at least one base couplet (consisting of two server nodes and two disk enclosures) and two switches. The two switches are dedicated to support a network internal to the product. They cannot be used in a customer’s external network.
NOTE: • Sufficient space, at least 12 inches (30 cm), must be available to the right-hand side of the front of rack to ensure that there is enough clearance to maneuver the disks in and out of drawer 2. • The HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup System is installed in an HP 642 Intelligent Rack. • The rack should only be used for the HP StoreOnce 6500 Backup system and supported couplet expansion.
3 Product specifications Product dimensions Table 5 Physical dimensions Rack Shipping Installed 85.35 x 50.87 x 35.43 inches (h x d x w) 216.80 x 129.20 x 90 cm 79.00 x 44.30 x 23.54 inches (h x d x w) 200.66 x 112.52 x 59.78 cm nl nl Product weight The weight varies depending upon the number of racks, couplets and storage. Table 6 Weight specifications 1 Phase 3 Phase kgs lbs kgs lbs Single couplet 430.9 947.9 430.9 947.9 Single couplet with maximum storage added to couplet 544.2 1197.
PDU options Two different types of PDU are available. HP’s standard “Modular” PDUs and HP’s “Intelligent Modular” PDUs. For further information on PDU features, refer to http://www.hp.com. Each HP StoreOnce 6500 rack is supplied with four PDUs that are connected to four pairs of extension bars. IMPORTANT: You must specify which power option will be used when placing the order for the HP StoreOnce Backup system.
Table 11 Intelligent Modular PDU options (continued) North America and Japan Facility Power Connection International NEMA L6-30R 208V 3 phase 3 pole 4 wire (Delta) NEMA L15-30R Number of PDUs per rack 4 4 4 4 Number of sockets required per rack 4 4 4 4 AF520A AF522A AF525A AF526A Part number IEC60309 2 pole, 3 IEC60309 4 pole, 5 wire, 200- 240VAC, wire, 380-415 VAC, 32A IEC 332C6S, 16A IEC 516C6S, 332R6S, or equivalent 516R6S, or equivalent Table 12 Extension Bars for Intelligent Modula
4 Connecting to your network IMPORTANT: Please take time to read this chapter before completing the Network checklist at the front of this document, see Network requirements (page 9). Each couplet is a paired combination of two nodes that are directly connected in failover pairs. If one node fails, the system is designed to failover to the other node without any external interaction from the customer.
Physical Ethernet connection requirements Be aware of the following when preparing the network environment. • All network subnets must use bonded ports to ensure high availability in the event of failover. Incorrect cabling can negate the high availability infrastructure of the product. • There should ideally be two switches for each network to which you are connecting. • For EACH bonded pair of cables, the first cable should be connected to Switch 1; the other cable should be connected to Switch 2.
IMPORTANT: Once you have created a portset, the ports that you have defined for that portset are no longer available for use in other portsets.
Table 13 Number of physical network ports required per portset (continued) 1GbE ports 2 per node Data only 4 8 12 16 1GbE ports 4 per node Management and Data 8 16 24 32 1GbE ports 3 per node Management and Data 6 12 18 24 NOTE: To calculate the total number of physical connections required, add the totals in the appropriate column.
Figure 2 Network example The following guidelines apply: • The user can configure up to 128 different VLAN subnets for the StoreOnce Backup system; the VLAN subnets may be consecutive or non-consecutive. • VLAN subnets are only used for data. It is not permitted to configure StoreOnce Management on a VLAN subnet. • The user can configure up to 128 different VLANs on one subnet or divide the 128 different VLANs over multiple subnets.
Gateway considerations When the network subnet is configured, you are prompted to provide an IP address for a gateway, which will be used to route management and/or data traffic to and from an external network. In addition, one network subnet will be designated as containing the default gateway.
number of IP addresses that you require depends upon the number and type of subnets that you configure, and the number of couplets that you have installed. • A management subnet is always a physical subnet and requires one virtual IP address per cluster and one physical IP address per node. • A management + data subnet is always a physical subnet and requires one VIF address per cluster for management, one virtual IP address per node for data, and one physical IP address per node.
5 Fibre Channel connection The physical FC connection to the HP StoreOnce Backup System is straightforward; there are four FC ports per node. However, care must be taken to ensure there is no single point of failure in switch or fabric zoning that will negate the failover capabilities of the HP StoreOnce Backup System and its autonomic restart ability. Conformance to the following rules will help to ensure successful failover • Fibre Channel switches used with HP StoreOnce must support NPIV.
6 Preparing for installation The customer should ensure that a keyboard and monitor are available for use as a management console during the initial configuration stage. NOTE: HP does not recommend using a KVM installed in the rack because this will cause problems when a second couplet is added. In a fully expanded rack there is no space for locating a KVM within the rack.
User roles and accounts Two roles define the permissions associated with a user; admin and user. Two default user accounts, one for each role, are created automatically when the system is installed. • Administrator: Authorized users can create and edit management and StoreOnce functions via the GUI and CLI. The default login and password are Admin and admin. The permissions role of the Administrator is admin. • Operator: This account limits access to the GUI and CLI to monitoring and viewing.
About this guide Intended audience This guide is intended for customers so that they can prepare for HP service specialists to install the HP StoreOnce Backup System.
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