Administrator Guide

11. When you have finished adding hardware components, click OK in the Virtual Machine Properties

window.

12. Repeat this process for each Fluid Cache VM.

Configuring the VSA for Two iSCSI Subnets

If your iSCSI connection consists of two subnets (a single iSCSI connection is also supported), follow this

procedure to change the settings on each VSA in the Fluid Cache cluster:

1. In the vSphere Windows client, right-click one of the VSAs in the Fluid Cache cluster and select Edit

Settings.

2. Change Network adapter 2 to use one of the iSCSI port groups.

3. Change Network adapter 3 to use the other iSCSI port group.

4. Repeat this process for each VSA in the Fluid Cache cluster.

NOTE: Make sure the addresses you assign to the vmnics are on the same subnets as their

respective network adapters in the VSA.

When you follow the procedure in Configuring the VSA below, the second network adapter is the eth1

adapter in the Configure/Manage iSCSI Interfaces screen of the Fluid Cache configuration interface, and

the third adapter is the eth2 adapter.

Configuring the VSA

Before configuring the Fluid Cache VSA, make sure you have met the following prerequisites:

• You have correctly cabled and configured all network adapters and network switches.

• The vCenter user configuring Fluid Cache has the following privileges:

– In the vSphere web client, for the Virtual machine privilege, under Configuration, Raw device

must be selected.

– For the Datastore privilege, the following must be selected: Allocate space, Browse datastore,

Configure datastore, Low level file operations, and Remove datastore.

– In Host Privileges, under Configuration, the following must be selected: Advanced settings,

Change PciPassthru settings, Change settings, Connection, Maintenance, Memory

configuration, Network configuration, Power, Storage partition configuration, System

Management, System resources, and Virtual machine autostart configuration.

1. In the vSphere Windows client, right-click the VSA and click Power → Power on.

2. Right-click the VSA and select Open Console.

After the VSA powers on, a login page is displayed. You are now in the text-based user interface (TUI)

which configures the ESXi hosts and network interfaces of the Fluid Cache network. Use the arrow

keys to navigate, press <Enter> to select, and press <Esc> to exit the current screen. Press <Ctrl> <