Quick Start

1. On the Deployment and Expansion tab, click the Enable button under PXE.

Note Acronis Storage PXE does not support failover. If the node with the PXE server goes down, repeat step

1 of this procedure. PXE will be re-initiated on one of the remaining nodes.

2. Reboot the nodes prepared for adding to the Acronis Storage system, and ensure that they have

booted from the network. The boot process does not require a user interaction. No data is

deleted from the machines during the boot process. The data will be deleted later, when the

roles are assigned to the nodes via the web console.

The nodes are now ready for further configuration via the web console.

6.3 Roles assignment

In this step, you will activate the remaining nodes to make Acronis Storage fully functional.

After booting the new nodes from the Expansion ISO or PXE, the nodes appear in the web console on

the Storage tab in the Inactive group.

To make the nodes active, you need to assign the MDS, STS or FES roles to the nodes' disk drives. For

the recommended role assignments, refer to the diagrams in "Hardware requirements" (p. 6).

To assign the roles to the second and the third node

1. Click a node to open its properties.

2. Click Activate Node.

The system offers the default role assignment scheme. This scheme has the MDS and STS roles

enabled.

The roles are automatically distributed between the disk drives of the node according to the

following scheme:

 Two disk drives are dedicated to the MDS role (in RAID1).

 The rest of the disk drives are dedicated to the STS role.