Administrator Guide

After installing the VSAs, you must edit the network adapter settings for the VSA (see Configuring the

VSA).

For more information on setting up and administering an iSCSI network with two subnets, refer to the

following documents:

• Dell Compellent Storage Center Best Practices with VMware vSphere 5.x

• Best Practices for Running VMware vSphere on iSCSI

Configuring Fibre Channel

If you plan to cache-enable volumes that are attached to the Fibre Channel network, one or more Fibre

Channel HBAs must be enabled for the PCI pass-through feature, and then passed through to the VSA.

NOTE: If there is more than one Fibre Channel HBA configured on the server, cached LUNs are

accessed using the HBA that is passed through to the VSA, and uncached volumes are accessed

through other HBAs. If there is only one Fibre Channel HBA configured on the server, then all

volumes presented to the cluster must be enabled for caching.

To access the Compellent Storage using Fibre Channel:

1. Install the Fibre Channel HBAs on the ESXi hosts that host the Fluid Cache VSAs.

2. Configure the Fibre Channel zoning on the Compellent array that has the storage you want to cache.

Installing the Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)

The following are the prerequisites for installing the Fluid Cache VSA:

• You must have a licensed copy of ESXi 5.5 Update 2 and vCenter Server 5.5 Update 2.

• You must have the Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file containing the Fluid Cache software.

To install the VSA:

1. In the vSphere Windows client, select one of the ESXi hosts in the Fluid Cache cluster.

2. Go to File → Deploy OVF Template.

The Deploy OVF Template window is displayed.

3. In the Deploy OVF Template window, browse to the location of the OVA file and click Next.

The OVF Template Details window is displayed.

4. In the OVF Template Details window, click Next.

The Name and Location window is displayed.

5. In the Name and Location window, set a name for the VSA and click Next.

NOTE: Each Fluid Cache VSA must have a unique name. Consider using a name that references

the name of the ESXi host in order to facilitate configuration of the VSA.

If you have multiple datastores, the Storage window is displayed.

6. Select a datastore and click Next.

The Disk Format window is displayed.

7. In the Disk Format window, select a provisioning method and click Next.

The Network Mapping window is displayed.

8. In the Network Mapping window, the following source networks must be configured to an

appropriate destination network.