Dell Fluid Cache For DAS Quick Start Guide
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Contents Notes, Cautions, and Warnings...................................................................................................2 1 Getting Started With Dell Fluid Cache For DAS.....................................................................5 Hardware Prerequisites For Installing Fluid Cache For DAS....................................................................................5 Software And Firmware Prerequisites For Installing Fluid Cache..................................................
Getting Started With Dell Fluid Cache For DAS Fluid Cache for DAS monitors your cache usage, protects your writes, programmatically moves data blocks in and out of the cache as needed, and does it all transparently to the application. The following steps provide a broad summary to configure and run Fluid Cache for DAS: 1. Add up to four PCIe SSDs to the Dell PowerEdge system. NOTE: Ensure that all the four PCIe SSDs are of the same capacity. 2. Configure the PCIe SSDs to create a cache pool. 3.
Table 1. Operating System Packages Operating System Package Name Package Version Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 and 6.3 perl-XML-LibXML 1.70 – 5.el6 perl-XML-NamespaceSupport 1.10 – 3.el6 perl-XML-SAX 0.96 – 7.el6 rrdtool 1.3.8 – 6.el6 sg3_utils 1.28 – 4.el6 libxslt 1.1.26 – 2.el6 libuuid 2.17.2 – 12.el6 perl-XML-LibXML 1.66 – 1.14 perl-XML-NamespaceSupport 1.09 – 1.22 perl-XML-SAX 0.96 – 2.7 rrdtool 1.3.4 – 2.8 sg3_utils 1.31 – 1.11.14 libxslt 1.1.24 – 19.15 libuuid1 2.19.
6. Click Caching Solutions to expand the menu. Fluid Cache for DAS software is listed. Click the link to download the software. Installing Fluid Cache For DAS You can install Fluid Cache for DAS using the Fluid Cache setup.sh shell script. When you run the installation script, it uses the options you provide. If the installation script encounters missing dependencies or discovers other issues with your installation, it stops and an error message is displayed.
The installation script provides a summary of all the installation variables you have chosen up to this point. You must confirm that the information is correct before continuing. Then, at the prompt, the script asks whether you want to start the Fluid Cache service with the message: Would you like to start Fluid Cache now? ('y' for yes | 'n' for no and exit install): 10. To start the Fluid Cache service, type y and press . 11.
NOTE: If you attempt to reinstall Fluid Cache, you may see a warning message that advises that you have had a previous configuration. You cannot clear that warning and install FluidCache unless you remove the FluidCache directory. Remove the FluidCache directory after you are sure that all data previously managed by Fluid Cache is secure. Fluid Cache for DAS is now uninstalled. Related Documentation NOTE: For all storage controllers and PCIe SSD documents, go to dell.
