Deployment Guide

Contents
1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................5
System requirements.........................................................................................................................................................5
Management station requirements............................................................................................................................5
Introduction to storage arrays.......................................................................................................................................... 5
Related documentation..................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Hardware installation..................................................................................................................................... 7
Planning the storage conguration ................................................................................................................................. 7
Connecting the storage array .......................................................................................................................................... 7
Conguring Fibre Channel with Dell EMC MD Series storage arrays..........................................................................8
Conguring Fibre Channel on SAN attached storage arrays........................................................................................8
Conguring Fibre Channel...........................................................................................................................................8
Other information you may need......................................................................................................................................8
Installing supported Fibre Channel HBAs........................................................................................................................ 9
Installing Fibre Channel HBA on your host server....................................................................................................9
Using Fibre Channel switch zoning.................................................................................................................................. 9
World Wide Name zoning.......................................................................................................................................... 10
Switch zoning guidelines.............................................................................................................................................11
Setting up zoning on the Fibre Channel switch hardware......................................................................................11
Cabling storage array ....................................................................................................................................................... 11
Redundant and non-redundant cabling.................................................................................................................... 11
SAN-attached cabling.......................................................................................................................................................11
SAN-attached cabling example.................................................................................................................................12
Remote Replication cabling example........................................................................................................................13
Mixed environment.....................................................................................................................................................15
Cabling PowerVault MD3060e expansion enclosures..................................................................................................16
MD3060e expansion cabling diagrams.....................................................................................................................17
Expanding with new PowerVault MD3060e expansion enclosures..................................................................... 18
3 Installing MD Storage Manager....................................................................................................................20
Installing host bus adapters and drivers.........................................................................................................................21
Graphical installation (recommended)........................................................................................................................... 21
Console installation ......................................................................................................................................................... 22
Silent installation ............................................................................................................................................................. 22
Silent installation on Windows.................................................................................................................................. 22
Silent installation on Linux.........................................................................................................................................22
Enabling premium features (optional)............................................................................................................................22
Upgrading PowerVault MD Storage Manager..............................................................................................................22
4 Post installation tasks.................................................................................................................................. 23
Verifying storage array discovery...................................................................................................................................23
Initial setup tasks..............................................................................................................................................................24
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