Owner's Manual
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Task 3: Verifying and Upgrading the Firmware
• Discover the host server’s direct-attached storage using the Modular Disk
Storage Manager software that is installed on the host server.
• Verify that the firmware for the following storage components is at the
minimum required version. Refer to the Solutions Deliverable List (SDL)
for the firmware version requirements.
• MD3000i storage system firmware
• MD1000 expansion enclosure firmware
Post Installation Tasks
After installing the drivers and the software, perform the post installation tasks
listed in the
MD3000i Installation Guide
to create the environment shown in
Table 3 on page 10.
iSCSI Cluster Setup for EqualLogic® PS Series
Storage Systems
EqualLogic Terminologies
EqualLogic PS series storage arrays include storage virtualization technology.
To better understand how these arrays operate, it is helpful to be familiar with
some of the terminology used to describe these arrays and their functions:
•
Member:
a single PS series array is known as a member
•
Group:
a set of one or more members that can be centrally managed:
host servers access the data through a single group IP address
•
Pool:
a RAID that can consist of the disks from one or more members
•
Volume:
a LUN or virtual disk that represents a subset of the capacity of a pool