4.1.0 HP Polyserve Software Installation Guide (T5392-96066, October 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 HP 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
6. Configure the storage array ...................................................................... 15
7. Install the iSCSI initiator (iSCSI configurations only) ...................................... 16
8. Install third-party MPIO software (optional) ................................................. 16
9. Configure FC switches ............................................................................. 16
10. 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
11. Log into iSCSI targets (iSCSI configurations only) ....................................... 20
12. Run the mxcheck utility ........................................................................... 20
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