Owner's Manual

4 Contents
3 Setting Up a Fibre Channel Cluster . . . . 23
Hardware Connections for a
Fibre Channel Cluster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cabling Your Fibre Channel Storage System
. . . . . . 25
Configuring Direct-Attached Fibre Channel
. . . . 25
Configuring SAN-Attached Fibre Channel
. . . . . 26
4 Setting Up a SAS Cluster for the
Dell PowerVault MD3000 and MD1000
Expansion Enclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Setting Up the Hardware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installing Host-Based Storage Software
. . . . . . . . 32
Verifying and Upgrading the Firmware
. . . . . . . . . 33
Installing the SAS 5/E Adapter Driver . . . . . . . . . . 33
Performing the Post Installation Tasks
. . . . . . . . . 33
Setting Up an iSCSI Cluster for the
Dell PowerVault MD32
xx and
MD12
xx Storage Enclosures . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Installing Host-Based Storage Software
. . . . . . 34
Installing the MD Storage Software
. . . . . . . . 34
Post Installation Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Verifying Storage Array Discovery
. . . . . . . . . 37
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