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Dell PowerVault MD3200 Deployment Manual

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  • Page 1 Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200 and MD3220 Storage Arrays Deployment Guide...
  • Page 2 Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, and PowerVault are trademarks of Dell Inc.; Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries; Microsoft, Windows, and Windows Server are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries;...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Introduction ......System Requirements ....Management Station Requirements .
  • Page 4 Software Installation ....Installing MD Storage Software ... . . Graphical Installation (Recommended) ..Console Installation .

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Introduction This guide provides information about deploying Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200 and MD3220 storage arrays. The deployment process includes: • Hardware installation • Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) software installation • Initial system configuration Other information provided include system requirements, storage array organization, and utilities.

  • Page 6: Introduction To Storage Arrays

    ® ® Hyper-V™, Citrix XenServer™, and VMware . For information about the supported versions, see the Support Matrix at support.dell.com/manuals. • Administrator or equivalent permissions Introduction to Storage Arrays A storage array includes various hardware components, such as physical disks, RAID controller modules, fans, and power supplies, gathered into enclosures.
  • Page 7 You can set a specified RAID level for each disk group and virtual disk on your storage array. For more information about using RAID and managing data in your storage solution, see the Owner’s Manual at support.dell.com/manuals. Introduction...
  • Page 8 Introduction...

  • Page 9: Hardware Installation

    Hardware Installation Before using this guide, ensure that you review the instructions in the: • Getting Started Guide—The Getting Started Guide that shipped with the storage array provides information to configure the initial setup of the system. • Planning section of the Owner’s Manual—The planning section provides information about important concepts you should know before setting up your storage solution.

  • Page 10: About The Storage Array Connections

    For more information, see the Getting Started Guide. Each PowerVault MD3200 Series storage array can be expanded to a maximum of 96 physical disks through a maximum of seven PowerVault MD1200 Series expansion enclosures.

  • Page 11: Single Controller Configurations

    Redundancy is established by installing separate data paths between the host and the storage array, in which each path is to one of the two RAID controller modules installed in the storage array. Redundancy protects the host from losing access to data in the event of path failure, because both RAID controller modules can access all the disks in the storage array.
  • Page 12 Figure 2-2. Two Hosts Connected to a Single Controller Server 1 Server 2 Storage array Corporate, public, or private network Hardware Installation...
  • Page 13 Figure 2-3. Four Hosts Connected to a Single Controller Server 1 Server 2 Server 3 Server 4 Storage array Corporate, public, or private network Hardware Installation...

  • Page 14: Dual Controller Configurations

    Dual Controller Configurations Figure 2-4 through Figure 2-6 show two and four hosts, each connected to two RAID controller modules. Since each host has redundant paths, loss of a single path would still allow access to the storage array through the alternate path. Figure 2-4.
  • Page 15 Figure 2-5. Four Hosts Connected to Two Controllers Server 3 Server 4 Server 1 Server 2 Storage array Corporate, public, or private network Hardware Installation...
  • Page 16 Figure 2-6. Four Hosts Connected to Two Controllers Server 1 Server 2 Server 3 Server 4 Storage array Corporate, public, or private network Hardware Installation...
  • Page 17 Figure 2-7 shows eight hosts, each connected to only one RAID controller module. This configuration allows the maximum number of hosts that may be connected, but provides no redundancy. Figure 2-7. Eight Hosts Connected to Two Controllers Up to 8 hosts Server 3 Server 4 Server 1...
  • Page 18 Figure 2-8 and Figure 2-9 show up to four cluster nodes connected to two RAID controller modules. Since each cluster node has redundant paths, loss of a single path would still allow access to the storage array through the alternate path. Figure 2-8.
  • Page 19 Figure 2-9. Four Cluster Nodes Connected to Two Controllers Four cluster nodes Storage array Corporate, public, or private network Hardware Installation...

  • Page 20: Cabling Powervault Md1200 Series Expansion Enclosures

    Cabling PowerVault MD1200 Series Expansion Enclosures You can expand the capacity of your PowerVault MD3200 Series storage array by adding PowerVault MD1200 Series expansion enclosures. You can expand the physical disk pool to a maximum of 96 physical disks using a maximum of seven expansion enclosures.
  • Page 21 Using MDSM, update the storage array RAID controller module firmware and NVSRAM to the latest versions available at support.dell.com. In the Enterprise Management Window (EMW), Click Tools Upgrade RAID Controller Module Firmware. 4 Stop all I/O and turn off the system.

  • Page 22: Expanding With New Powervault Md1200 Series Expansion Enclosures

    Expanding With New PowerVault MD1200 Series Expansion Enclosures Perform the following steps to attach new PowerVault MD1200 Series expansion enclosures to a PowerVault MD3200 Series storage array: 1 Before adding the expansion enclosure(s), ensure that the storage array software is installed and up to date. For more information, see the Support Matrix at support.dell.com/manuals.
  • Page 23 After the storage array is online and ready, turn on any attached host systems. 5 Using MDSM, update all attached expansion enclosure firmware if it is out of date: From the EMW, select the enclosure that you want to update and enter the Array Management Window (AMW).
  • Page 24 Hardware Installation...

  • Page 25: Software Installation

    For more information on supported hardware and software for Dell™ PowerVault systems, see the Support Matrix located at support.dell.com/manuals. NOTE: It is recommended that you install all the latest updates available at support.dell.com.

  • Page 26: Graphical Installation (Recommended)

    • Console Installation—This installation procedure is useful for Linux users that do not desire to install an X-Window environment on their supported Linux platform. • Silent Installation—This installation procedure is useful for users that prefer to create scripted installations. Graphical Installation (Recommended) 1 Close all other programs before installing any new software.

  • Page 27: Silent Installation

    Silent Installation This option allows you to install the software in an unattended mode. To run the silent installation in a Windows system, perform the following steps: 1 To begin the installation with all the default options, navigate to the windows folder on the resource media and run the following command: md32xx_install -i silent...
  • Page 28 Software Installation...

  • Page 29: Post Installation Tasks

    ® • On Microsoft Windows operating systems, click Start ProgramsDellMD Storage ManagerModular Disk Storage Manager Client. • On Linux operating systems, click the MD Storage Manager desktop icon. You can also launch MD Storage Manager in Linux by running the following commands at the command prompt:...

  • Page 30: Verifying Storage Array Discovery

    To add an array, click New link. In Linux, click the Manual button and click OK. 4 If the array still shows an Unresponsive status, contact Dell. Initial Setup Tasks 1 The name of the first storage array found appears in the devices tab of the EMW.
  • Page 31 Set up alert notifications To notify individuals (by e-mail) and/or storage enterprise management consoles, such Set up e-mail alerts as Dell Management Console, (by SNMP) Set up SNMP alerts when a storage array component degrades or fails, or an adverse environmental condition occurs.
  • Page 32 Post Installation Tasks...

  • Page 33: Uninstalling Software

    Microsoft Windows Server 2008: 1 From the Control Panel, double-click Add or Remove Programs. 2 Select Dell MD32xxi storage software from the list of programs. 3 Click Change/Remove, and follow the instructions to complete the uninstallation process. The Uninstall Complete window appears.

  • Page 34: Uninstalling From Linux

    4 Select Yes to restart the system, then click Done. Uninstalling From Linux 1 By default, MD Storage Manager is installed in the /opt/dell/mdstoragemanager directory. If another directory was used during installation, navigate to that directory before beginning the uninstallation procedure.

  • Page 35: A Appendix-Load Balancing

    Appendix—Load Balancing Windows Load Balance Policy Multi-path drivers select the I/O path to a virtual disk through a specific RAID controller module. When the multi-path driver receives a new I/O, the driver tries to find a path to the current RAID controller module that owns the virtual disk.

  • Page 36: Changing Load Balance Policies In Windows Sever 2008

    RAID controller module that owns the virtual disk. Changing Load Balance Policies in Windows Sever 2008 Load balancing with the PowerVault MD3200 Series is only available for Windows Server 2008 and later versions of the operating system. You can change the load balance policies from the default round robin with subset by using one of the following: •...

  • Page 37: Setting Load Balance Policies In Linux

    Setting Load Balance Policies in Linux Linux only supports round robin based load balancing. For more information, see "Round Robin With Subset" on page 35. Appendix—Load Balancing...
  • Page 38 Appendix—Load Balancing...

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