4.0.0 HP Polyserve Matrix Server Installation Guide (T5392-96046, March 2010)

Contents
1 Configuration information ................................................... 5
Supported hardware ............................................................................................ 5
Supported HBA drivers .................................................................................. 5
Server requirements ....................................................................................... 6
Network configuration requirements ....................................................................... 6
Fibre Channel switch guidelines ............................................................................ 7
Fencing requirements ........................................................................................... 8
Requirements for Active Directory .......................................................................... 9
2 Install PolyServe Matrix Server ........................................... 11
Contents of the Matrix Server distribution .............................................................. 11
Supported operating systems .............................................................................. 11
User authentication ............................................................................................ 11
Before the installation ......................................................................................... 12
System drive requirement .............................................................................. 12
Installation procedure ......................................................................................... 12
Installation Checklist .................................................................................... 12
1. Set up the DNS hostname ........................................................................ 14
2. Configure the server for WINS clients ........................................................ 15
3. Install a firewall (optional) ........................................................................ 15
4. Install an HBA driver ............................................................................... 15
5. Reboot the server .................................................................................... 15
7. Configure the storage array ...................................................................... 15
8. Install the iSCSI initiator (iSCSI configurations only) ..................................... 16
9. Install third-party MPIO software (optional) ................................................. 16
10. Configure FC switches ........................................................................... 16
11. Create LUNs for the membership partitions and modify partition tables ........ 18
Disk partition alignment ........................................................................ 18
Partitions containing Windows filesystems ................................................ 19
Changes to the disk partition table ......................................................... 19
Partition sizing ..................................................................................... 20
12. Log into iSCSI targets (iSCSI configurations only) ....................................... 20
13. Run the mxcheck utility ........................................................................... 20
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