Owners Manual

Now, you cannot install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 through an iSCSI ooad hardware. You can install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 either
through the iSCSI software stack (referred to as software initiator) or the iSCSI HBA (referred to as hardware initiator).
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 using the software iSCSI
initiator
CAUTION: Back up all the data from the system before installing or upgrading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system.
1 Congure the network interface controllers to access the iSCSI storage.
2 During the operating system installation, select Specialized Storage Devices in the Storage Devices page and click Next.
3 In the Storage Device Selection page, click Advanced Storage Options to connect to the iSCSI target or FCoE SAN.
4 Select Add iSCSI Target and click Add Drive.
5 In the Congure iSCSI Parameters page, provide the required information, and click Add Target to connect to the iSCSI target.
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 using the hardware iSCSI
initiator
CAUTION: Back up all the data from the system before installing or upgrading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system.
1 Congure the network interface controllers to access the iSCSI storage.
2 During the operating system installation, select Specialized Storage Devices in the Storage Devices page and click Next.
3 In the Storage Device Selection page, click the Other SAN Devices tab.
4 Select the SAN device that is displayed on this screen and continue with the installation.
Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux on FCoE-Enabled storage
CAUTION
: Back up all the data from the system before installing or upgrading the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system.
1 During the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system installation, select Specialized Storage Devices in the Storage Devices page
and click Next.
2 In the Storage Device Selection page, click Add Advanced Target.
The Advanced Storage Options page is displayed. You can connect to the iSCSI target or the FCoE SAN through this screen.
3 To congure FCoE SAN, select Add FCoE SAN and click Add Drive.
The Congure FCoE Parameters page is displayed.
4 Select the network interface that is connected to your FCoE switch and click Add FCoE Disk(s).
Add-on device drivers
All Dell EMC add-on device driver packages that are not on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 media are packaged as kernel module packages
(kmods). For devices that require updated drivers other than those present on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 media, see www.dell.com/
support.
NOTE
: Your system does not require a driver update if there are no driver packages available on www.dell.com/support.
For a list of add-on device drivers that are installed on your system, type the following command at the command prompt: rpm -qa |grep
kmod
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Installation instructions and important information