Users Guide

Specification Prerequisite

• Create both physical and logical ports of the

Compellent array.

• Make sure active zone set is configured on the

Brocade SAN switches.

Compellent Storage Configuration Must be configured

Resource Discovery Make sure the following resources are discovered

in ASM.

• FC Servers for Deployment

• FC SAN Brocade Switch

• FC IOMs (Optional)

• Dell Compellent Storage

• VMware vCenter

Creating template for ESXi cluster deployment

Create a new template with the following settings to deploy ESXi cluster using Dell Compellent storage

and Brocade 6510 SAN switch.

• In the Template Builder page, add the following resources by clicking the corresponding components

icons.

– Storage

– Server

– Cluster

• To configure Brocade switches, perform the following actions:

a. In the Storage, click the corresponding storage component icon.

b. In the Storage Component pane, under Compellent Storage Settings, set the value as true for

Configure SAN Flag parameter.

• The parameter iSCSI network is not required when deploying Fibre Channel storage. If this setting is

included, it will be ignored.