6.3 HP StoreAll Storage Installation Guide (TA768-96085, April 2013)

Contents
1 Installing 9300 and 9320 systems................................................................6
Network information.................................................................................................................6
Installation checklist..................................................................................................................6
Installing the latest StoreAll OS software release...........................................................................7
Starting the installation and configuration....................................................................................8
Completing the installation in ASCII mode.................................................................................13
Installing additional servers.................................................................................................15
2 Discovering HP StoreAll servers and their storage.........................................17
Running the wizard.................................................................................................................17
3 Configuring the cluster with the Getting Started Wizard.................................30
Running the wizard.................................................................................................................30
Troubleshooting the Getting Started Wizard...............................................................................35
Cluster Settings page..........................................................................................................35
DNS/FTP page.................................................................................................................36
File Servers page...............................................................................................................37
Create a Default File System page........................................................................................41
4 Installing 9730 systems..............................................................................43
9730 network layouts..............................................................................................................43
IP address requirements...........................................................................................................44
Installation checklist................................................................................................................44
Configuring OA1 IP addresses for Onboard Administrator...........................................................45
Installing the latest StoreAll OS software release.........................................................................47
Starting the installation and configuring the chassis.....................................................................48
Creating the cluster on blade 1................................................................................................60
Installing additional 9730 blades.............................................................................................62
Troubleshooting .....................................................................................................................68
5 Post-installation tasks.................................................................................71
Updating license keys.............................................................................................................71
Configuring and Enabling High Availability...............................................................................71
9730 systems....................................................................................................................71
9300/9320 systems...........................................................................................................71
Using the management console GUI.........................................................................................71
Changing the GUI user password........................................................................................71
StoreAll OS software manpages...............................................................................................71
Configuring data collection with Ibrix Collect..............................................................................72
Configuring HP Insight Remote Support.....................................................................................72
Creating file systems...............................................................................................................72
Configuring NFS exports (optional)...........................................................................................72
NFS client implementation tuning.........................................................................................72
Configuring SMB shares (optional)............................................................................................72
Configuring other StoreAll OS software features..........................................................................73
6 Configuring virtual interfaces for client access..............................................74
Network and VIF guidelines.....................................................................................................74
Creating a bonded VIF............................................................................................................74
Configuring backup servers......................................................................................................75
Configuring NIC failover.........................................................................................................75
Configuring automated failover................................................................................................75
Example configuration.............................................................................................................75
Specifying VIFs in the client configuration...................................................................................76
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