Owners Manual
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Configuring and Managing Fluid Cache
Clusters
Make sure that your system meets the following prerequisites:
• The Fluid Cache software must be installed and running on all servers to be used in the Fluid Cache
cluster.
• All servers 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 Enterprise Manager server 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
server.
b. The Port box is autopopulated. Change only if necessary.
c. In the User Name box, type the username , which is fldc.
You can also use the root user name and password in these boxes, if available.
d. In the User Password box, type the password . 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.
The Select Servers window is displayed.
6. By default, all available servers are selected. Clear the check box next to unwanted servers or select
the Unselect All option, and then select three or more servers to be included. (Click Select All to use
all available servers again.)
7. Click Next.
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