Deployment Guide

55 ScaleIO/VxFlex OS IP Fabric Best Practice and Deployment Guide with OS10EE | version 1.0
• Create a new ScaleIO system; agree to license terms.
• Enter a System Name and password.
• Select the vCenter server and all hosts in all clusters.
• Select a 3-node cluster.
- Initial Master MDM > 172.17.33.12
- Manager MDM > 172.17.33.13
- TieBreaker MDM > 172.17.33.14
- Leave optional settings as default.
• Configure Performance, Sizing, and Syslog; leave the setting as default.
• Enter a Protection Domain name.
• Enter Storage Pool name(s), enable zero padding.
• Create new Fault Sets is left as its default; none are created in this example.
• Add SDSs.
- Select SDS to assign an SDS role. Assign a Protection Domain.
• Add devices to SDSs.
- Information tab, select an ESXi host, click Assign devices.
- For each SCSI device, select Storage, select the appropriate storage pool, then click Assign.
- Repeat or replicate for other hosts.
• Add SDCs.
- For each ESXi host to be added as an SDC, select the SDC check box.
- Enter root passwords.
- Disable SCSI LUN number comparison for hosts.
• Configure Upgrade Components.
- Confirm an ESXi host selected to be the Gateway VM.
- Provide a Gateway administrative password.
- Provide an LIA password.
• Select OVA Template.
- Select the template to use to create the SVM. (Uploading templates to multiple datastores is
recommended for faster deployment, see the ScaleIO/VxFlex OS Deployment Guide located at
Dell EMC ScaleIO/VxFlex OS Software Only: Documentation Library
).
- Provide a root password for the SVMs.
• Configure networks.
- Management network label, select IPv4 and management.
- Data network label, select IPv4 and ScaleIO-data01.
> Network labels used are the management and storage networks configured in section 3.