Owner's Manual

Contents 5
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
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Verifying and Upgrading the Firmware
. . . . . . . . . 44
Post Installation Tasks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Setting Up an iSCSI Cluster for the
Dell PowerVault MD32
xx i and MD12 xx
Storage Enclosures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing Host-Based Storage Software. . . . . . 45
6 Setting Up an iSCSI Cluster for the
Dell|EqualLogic PS Series
Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
EqualLogic Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Setting Up the EqualLogic iSCSI Storage System
. . . . 49
Creating Volumes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Configuring the iSCSI Networks
. . . . . . . . . . 54
Configuring Host Access to Volumes
. . . . . . . . 55
7 Configuring Database
Storage on the Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Verifying and Identifying Your Storage Disks . . . . . . 65
Adjusting Disk Partitions for Systems Running
the Linux Operating System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Example: fdisk Utility Arguments
. . . . . . . . . . 68
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