Dell PowerVault MD3000i Support Question
Dell PowerVault MD3000i Support Question
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Question posted by algilg on September 2nd, 2014
What Type Of Iscsi Connection Is Established Md3000i Array?
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Related Dell PowerVault MD3000i Manual Pages
Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 9
... disks in -band through an iSCSI initiator. About Your System
The Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i is a 3U rack-mounted external Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) storage array capable of accommodating up to the Management Port on the RAID controller modules. The RAID enclosure can be either in the entire storage array. Connectivity between the RAID enclosure and...
Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 10
... 128 snapshots per array
• Optional virtual disk copy (premium feature), up to 255 virtual disk copies per disk group
• Up to 2 TB (2036 GB) storage on a single virtual disk
• Support for up to two PowerVault MD1000 expansion enclosures... physical disks
• Support for up to its alternate RAID controller module (or from a failed iSCSI connection). RAID controller modules
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Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 19
...iSCSI ports provide redundant host connections and support a high availability storage environment.
Various configurations can be utilized, in both single controller and dual controller mode, to connect the storage enclosure to the array...from the rear of nonredundant physical connections to hosts depending on cabling, see the PowerVault MD3000i Installation Guide. The single path ...
Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 49
... configuration, most of multiple paths to a virtual disk and establishes a preferred path to that a storage array has duplicate components, or alternate ways to the PowerVault MD Storage Manager CLI Guide. In addition, the storage array must be configured in case of a failure of how to cable your iSCSI connections, refer to provide essential services.
For the multi-path software...
Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 50
... controller module to assume all controller responsibilities for the storage array. If a failure causes the preferred path to become inaccessible, the storage array automatically uses the alternate path to their original RAID controller module after moving a controller offline, replacing a controller, or configuring iSCSI connections. The preferred controller is automatically selected by dual...
Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 92
... should never remove a component or device while data traffic is an output device. See also mirroring.
host adapter - hot-pluggable - Hz - Hertz. Input/output. Identification. internal processor cache -
IDE - group - A type of data redundancy in the system's RAM and I /O activity can be "hot-pluggable," you must install or connect the appropriate host adapter. A base...
Hardware Owner's Manual - Page 98
... or more disks in an array. The amount of all the space and all physical disk drive letters on a multiple-disk system. SAN storage may use of space used by...service tag - The volume of both hard-disk drive and tape storage devices that incorporate dedicated Fibre Channel connectivity between the servers and storage devices. SMART -
Used to describe a system that allows a network ...
MD3000i Support Matrix - Page 3
... is not supported.
A maximum of 16 physical host servers can connect to the same host is used, then all the iSCSI initiators in Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Cluster environment. Connecting an MD3000i and an MD3000 to a maximum of three MD3000i storage arrays. Considerations
Dell PowerVault Data MD3000i Support Matrix l
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MD3000i Support Matrix - Page 4
...the MD Storage Array, SMcli commands ...PowerVault Data MD3000i Support Matrix
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Microsoft iSCSI Initiator under Windows 2003. Virtual disk failover requires a dual-controller configuration √
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Dell PowerVault MD3000/MD3000i Array Tuning Best Practices - Page 15
... the direction I /O indicates how sequential or random the data access is taking from the storage device. Perf. The randomness of I /O is , as well as the patterning of I/O. I...Firmware - Dell™ PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i Array Tuning Best Practices
Figure 2: First Generation Firmware - File: stateCaptureData.txt
Virtual Disk Unit 0 Configuration
Volume Type:
13+1 RAID 5
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Installation Guide - Page 9
... level of virtual disks and disk groups according to a data organization plan. Storage Configuration Planning
Consider the following items before installing your Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3000i storage array and for hot spares, which automatically replace failed physical disks. • If you to connect the RAID enclosure to install a dedicated management station (server or standalone...
Installation Guide - Page 13
... can support up to 16 standalone servers can also cable your host servers to a single MD3000i RAID controller module through an IP storage area network (SAN) industry-standard 1GB Ethernet switch.
Hosts that have a second Ethernet connection to the network allow two separate physical paths for each host, which ensures full redundancy if...
Installation Guide - Page 23
... directory on the host server before installing the MD Storage Manager software. When installing from a standalone system that are connected to a storage array but will require you must be installed on the MD3000i Resource CD.
This package installs the necessary storage agent and multipath driver on an iSCSI-connected host server: 1 Close all host servers that is running...
Installation Guide - Page 25
...Storage Manager on an iSCSI-connected host server:
1 Close all other programs before you make these updates, go to install MD Storage Manager software on all other Windows hosts attached to the array. NOTE: Root privileges are instead installing MD Storage... have not yet cabled your MD3000i Storage Array, do so at this step, you must manually apply iSCSI updates to the Windows system ...
Installation Guide - Page 31
.... Table 4-1.
A server connected to define your network prior to an iSCSI storage system by -step instructions for configuring iSCSI are running Windows Server 2008 and elect to use IPv6, use Table 4-3 to the storage array via iSCSI ports. Gathering this type of information about your settings on both the host server(s) and the storage array.
The iSCSI-specific software installed on...
Installation Guide - Page 45
... secret on the storage array, then configure each iSCSI initiator on the host server via a CHAP secret. However, if you do not configure CHAP authentication, any host server connected to the same IP network as the storage array can set up target CHAP authentication, you elect to the storage array.
To set up mutual CHAP in order to establish a connection.
Installation Guide - Page 46
CHAP Types Defined CHAP Type Target CHAP
Mutual CHAP
Description
Sets up an account that iSCSI initiators use to connect to an iSCSI initiator.
The target storage array then authenticates the iSCSI initiator. Applied in your iSCSI configuration, Step 5: Configure CHAP Authentication on the Storage Array (optional) and Step 6: Configure CHAP Authentication on the Host Server (optional), ...
Installation Guide - Page 47
... secret is used to authenticate any type of iSCSI configuration, the term target always refers to the storage array and repeat the steps in Confirm ...storage array will allow an iSCSI initiator to log on with or without supplying any new host servers you are configuring CHAP authentication of CHAP, skip these steps and go to Step 7: Connect to the storage array. The storage array...
Installation Guide - Page 54
... Digest and Header Digest: Optionally, you are using a duplex MD3000i configuration, then LUNs should also be balanced between the controllers. NOTE: MD3000i supports only round robin load-balancing policies.
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Setting Up Your iSCSI Storage Array To support storage array controller failover, the host server must connect to both iSCSI ports on the Targets tab should be displayed under...
Installation Guide - Page 57
... settings, see Guidelines for Configuring Your Network for iSCSI. Setting Up Your iSCSI Storage Array
57 SESSION STATUS
: ESTABLISHED AT Wed May 9 18:20:28 CDT 2007
SESSION ID
: ISID 00023d000002 TSIH 4
Viewing the status of your iSCSI connections
In MD Storage Manager, clicking the iSCSI tab and then Configure iSCSI Host Ports will show the status of all target...
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