Install Guide

Specification Pre-requisite

Dell Compellent Storage

Array

• The management IP address is configured for the Storage Array.

• All storage array members are added to the group.

• Virtual ports must be enabled on Dell Compellent.

• Follow Dell Compellent best-practices for storage configuration.

• Storage Centers needs to be added to the Enterprise Manager before

initiating the Element Manager discovery in ASM.

• Fault Domain and IP Address configuration of iSCSI controllers needs to

be done before discovery Element Manager in ASM.

• Discovery of EM needs to be done with same credentials which are used

for add storage center in Element Manager.

• Enable SNMP on Dell Compellent to enable ASM to monitor the device.

Dell Compellent iSCSI on

MXL with Hyper V

• Enable LLDP and its corresponding attributes.

• DCB (with no PFC option) on the participating interfaces (Server Facing

and Port-Channel Members). Since DCB is globally enabled, the PFC

should be turned off individually in those interfaces.

• Link Level Flow control (LLFC) must be Rx ON and Tx OFF on the

respective interfaces.

• MTU must be set to 12000 on respective interfaces.

Sample server facing interface configuration

FTOSA1#show running-config interface tengigabitethernet 0/15

interface TenGigabitEthernet 0/15

no ip address

mtu 12000

portmode hybrid

switchport

flowcontrol rx on tx off

spanning-tree 0 portfast

spanning-tree pvst edge-port

dcb-map DCB_MAP_PFC_OFF

protocol lldp

advertise management-tlv management-address system-name

dcbx port-role auto-downstream

no shutdown