Owner's Manual

4 Contents
3 Setting Up a Fibre Channel Cluster . . . . 27
Hardware Connections
for a Fibre Channel Cluster
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Cabling Your Fibre Channel Storage System
. . . . . . 29
Configuring Direct-Attached Fibre Channel
. . . . 29
Configuring SAN-Attached Fibre Channel
. . . . . 30
4 Setting Up a SAS Cluster for
the Dell PowerVault MD3000
and MD1000 Expansion Enclosures
. . . . 33
Setting Up the Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Installing Host-Based Storage Software
. . . . . . . . 37
Verifying and Upgrading the Firmware
. . . . . . . . . 37
Installing the SAS 5/E Adapter Driver
. . . . . . . . . . 37
Performing the Post Installation Tasks
. . . . . . . . . 38
5 Setting Up an iSCSI Cluster for
the Dell™ PowerVault
™
MD3000i
and MD1000 Storage Enclosures
. . . . . . 39
Setting Up the Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Installing Host-based Software Needed
for Storage
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Verifying and Upgrading the Firmware
. . . . . . . . . 44
Post Installation Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44