Dell PowerVault NX1950 User manual

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Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950

Systems

Installation Guide

安装指南

安裝指南

Guide d'installation

Installationsanleitung

設置ガイド

설치 안내서

Guía de instalación

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Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950

Systems

Installation Guide

Notes and Notices

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you

make better use of your computer.

NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to

hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem.

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October 2006 P/N PN218 Rev. A00

Contents 3

Contents

Solution Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Supported Editions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

What's New in This Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Configuring Your Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Configuring Your Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Configuring Your Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Cabling the Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Connecting to the Storage System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Configuring the IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Accessing the PowerVault NX1950 Storage Solution

From a Client System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Completing the Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Dell Storage Initialization Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

PowerVault NX1950 Initial Configuration Tasks Wizard . . . . . . . 18

Restoring Your Operating System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Installing Your Operating System Using the Server

Management CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Restoring the Storage Array Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Installing Additional Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing and Configuring the MUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Applying the MUI Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Obtaining More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

4Contents

Installation Guide 5

This document provides information about deployment, cabling,

configuring, and localizing your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 storage

solution. The following sections provide information about:

• Solution overview

• Configuring your solution

• Connecting to the storage system

• Completing your system configuration

• PowerVault NX1950 Management Console

• Operating system features

• Restoring your operating system

Solution Overview

The PowerVault NX1950 storage solution consists of single-node or

multiple-node (up to two nodes) configurations running Microsoft®

Windows®Unified Data Storage Server 2003 operating system and is

configured from Dell with a PowerVault MD3000. This solution delivers

a flexible range of solutions that are pre-configured with the operating

system and the required software. You must perform minimal

configuration steps to complete the setup of the solution.

Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003

The Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 operating system is

configured to provide the following functionality:

• Optimal performance for unified file (Network File System [NFS]

and Common Internet File System [CIFS]) and iSCSI block

operations

• Support for the new Microsoft iSCSI Software Target

functionality

to provide block storage services in addition to file-level services

• Significant enhancements in share and storage management scenarios,

as well as integration of storage server management components and

functionality

NOTE: You can use the PowerVault NX1950 storage solution as an iSCSI target

device. However, Dell does not support adding hardware iSCSI products to

the solution.

6Installation Guide

Supported Editions

Dell supports the following editions of the Windows Unified Data Storage

System 2003 operating system:

• Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, Standard x64 Edition

• Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, Enterprise x64 Edition

NOTE: The x64 editions support only x64-based versions of PowerVault NX1950

management console snap-ins, not 32-bit versions.

What's New in This Release

Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 provides the following

features and functionality:

• Efficient and unified file management by extending and consolidating

the management interface.

• Initial Configuration Tasks user interface and command line interface (CLI)

support through the special administration console (SAC) simplify

setting up the storage server.

• Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 console integrates

multiple snap-ins for file server management.

• File Server Management provides support for performing additional

administration tasks.

• Share and Storage Management is a new snap-in, that includes

two new wizards, for provisioning shares and storage.

• Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, including the new iSCSI Software

Target snap-in and wizards for creating and managing iSCSI targets,

virtual disks, and snapshots.

• NFS provides an identity mapping interface and wizard.

• Remote Desktop for Administration provides a new Microsoft Remote

Administration applet that enables browser-based remote access to the

management console from client systems running Linux operating

systems.

These features and functionality provide significant improvements over

previous operating systems from Microsoft.

Installation Guide 7

Configuring Your Solution

This section provides information on configuring the hardware and

software for your PowerVault NX1950 storage solution.

NOTE: Throughout this document PowerVault NX1950 storage system refers

to the individual storage unit and PowerVault NX1950 storage solution refers

to the configuration of the storage unit along with the storage arrays.

Configuring Your Hardware

The PowerVault NX1950 storage solution is configured from Dell to

include the following peripherals that are required for the solution:

• PowerEdge™ Expandable RAID Controller (PERC) 5/i for internal

hardware redundant array of independent disks (RAID) 1 feature

• Serial attached SCSI (SAS) 5/E host bus adapter (HBA) controller

to connect to the PowerVault storage sub-system

• Dual-port network interface card (NIC) for additional client network

connectivity (a total number of four Gigabit Ethernet data

connections are available)

• Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) 5 for remote restore capabilities

and lights-out management

For information on setting up your hardware or racks, see the following

documents:

• Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems Getting Started With Your System

• Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems Hardware Owner’s Manual

• Dell PowerVault MD3000 documentation

Configuring Your Software

Your PowerVault NX1950 storage solution is pre-configured from Dell with

the required software for the solution and includes the following software:

• Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, x64 operating system

• Modular Disk Storage Manager

• PowerVault MD3000 Volume Shadow-Copy Service (VSS) and Virtual

Disk Service (VDS) providers

• Dell Storage Initialization Wizard

8Installation Guide

You do not need to install the operating system as it is pre-installed.

However, you need to perform the final steps to complete the installation

and configuration of the solution. For more information, see "Completing

the Configuration."

Cabling the Solution

Before you turn on the system, ensure that the PowerVault MD3000

storage array is cabled to the PowerVault NX1950 storage system(s).

Figure 1-1 and Figure 1-2 illustrate how to cable the SAS 5/E HBA

controllers in the PowerVault NX1950 storage system to the PowerVault

MD3000 storage array. The PowerVault NX1950 storage solution supports

single-node and two-node cluster configurations only. See Figure 1-1

for single-node configuration and Figure 1-2 for two-node configuration.

Figure 1-1. Single-Node Configuration

1NIC port A to Gb Ethernet switch

for data/management (optional)

4Port 0 on SAS HBA

to In-0 on controller 1

2NIC port B to Gb Ethernet switch for

data/management/backup (optional)

5Port 1 on SAS HBA

to In-0 on controller 0

3Gb1 and Gb2 to Gigabit Ethernet

switch(es) for data (static IP address

required for Gb1, optional for Gb2)

6DRAC port to Ethernet

switch for lights-out

management (optional)

PowerVault NX1950 storage system

PowerVault MD3000 storage array

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