Owners Manual

Configuring and Managing Fluid Cache

Clusters

Make sure that your system meets the following prerequisites:

• The Fluid Cache appliance must be installed and set up on all ESXi hosts to be used in the Fluid Cache

cluster.

• All ESXi hosts in the Fluid Cache cluster must be connected to the SAN and be visible on the

Compellent array.

• Enterprise Manager must be running and configured to manage the Storage Center to be used with

Fluid Cache.

• Your Enterprise Manager user account must have Administrator or Volume Manager privileges.

• The Fluid Cache license file must be stored on the host running Enterprise Manager that is used to

create the Fluid Cache cluster or on a shared folder available to it.

Creating a Fluid Cache Cluster

1. Log in to Enterprise Manager as a user with Administrator or Volume Manager privileges.

2. In Enterprise Manager’s Storage view, expand Storage Centers if necessary, and then select a Storage

Center.

3. In the Storage pane, select Dell Compellent.

4. In the Summary tab, click Configure Fluid Cache Cluster to launch the configuration wizard. (Do not

click Add FluidFS Cluster.)

The Discover Fluid Cache Servers page of the configuration wizard is displayed.

5. Type or select appropriate data in the Discover Fluid Cache Servers window.

a. In the Host or IP Address box, type the host name or IP address associated with the management

network of any available Fluid Cache

VSA.

NOTE: Do not reference a physical server here.

NOTE: Except for the entries in this Discover Fluid Cache Servers window, all other

references to Fluid Cache servers in this document and in Enterprise Manager refer to the

ESXi host and not the VSA. There is no further use of the VSA name or IP address when

managing Fluid Cache.

b. The Port box is autopopulated. Change only if necessary.

c. In the User Name box, type the username for the VSA, which is fldc.

d. In the User Password box, type the password for the VSA. The default value is calvin.

NOTE: If you change these default properties on any node in a Fluid Cache cluster, you

must change them on all nodes. The login and password must be the same on all nodes in

the Fluid Cache cluster.

e. Click Next.