Install Guide

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3 Dell EMC SC Series Storage with SAS Front-end Support for VMware vSphere | 3027-CD-VM
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
Audience ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Supported Hardware .......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 VMware vSphere ................................................................................................................................................ 6
1.3 Transport options ................................................................................................................................................ 6
2 SAS FE host path configuration options ...................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Multipath configuration ....................................................................................................................................... 7
3 Configure VMware hosts to access SC Series arrays with SAS FE ports ................................................................. 15
3.1 Prepare the environment .................................................................................................................................. 15
3.2 Install and configure SAS HBAs in the VMware hosts ..................................................................................... 16
3.3 Configure SAS FE fault domains ...................................................................................................................... 17
3.4 Connect VMware hosts to the SC Series array with SAS cables ..................................................................... 20
3.5 Create server objects on the SC Series array .................................................................................................. 21
3.6 Create server cluster object on the SC Series array ........................................................................................ 24
3.7 Create and map storage volumes to vSphere hosts ........................................................................................ 25
3.8 Create datastores and configure Multipath settings ......................................................................................... 27
A Additional resources ................................................................................................................................................... 36