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... Network 28 4.3.2 Sizing Inter-Switch Connections 30 4.3.3 Comparing Inter-Switch Connection Types 31 4.4 Host Configuration Guidelines 32 4.4.1 Recommendations for Host Connectivity in Redundant SANs 32 4.4.2 Multi-Path I/O 33 4.5 EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Design 35 4.5.1 Redundant SAN Configuration... 10GbE Switches 50 Appendix C Supported iSCSI Initiators 51 C.1 Hardware iSCSI Initiators (HBAs 51 C.2 Software iSCSI Initiators 52 C.3 Network Interface Controllers 53 Appendix D PowerConnect 54xx Switch Configuration 54 D.1 Disabling iSCSI Optimization Setting 54 D.2 Enabling the ...
... Network 28 4.3.2 Sizing Inter-Switch Connections 30 4.3.3 Comparing Inter-Switch Connection Types 31 4.4 Host Configuration Guidelines 32 4.4.1 Recommendations for Host Connectivity in Redundant SANs 32 4.4.2 Multi-Path I/O 33 4.5 EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Design 35 4.5.1 Redundant SAN Configuration... 10GbE Switches 50 Appendix C Supported iSCSI Initiators 51 C.1 Hardware iSCSI Initiators (HBAs 51 C.2 Software iSCSI Initiators 52 C.3 Network Interface Controllers 53 Appendix D PowerConnect 54xx Switch Configuration 54 D.1 Disabling iSCSI Optimization Setting 54 D.2 Enabling the ...
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... Chassis Integration on page 40 Appendices: o Network Ports and Protocols on page 47 o Recommended Switches on page 49 o Supported iSCSI Initiators on page 51 o PowerConnect 54xx Switch Configuration on page 54 o PowerConnect 62xx Switch Configuration on page 58 o Cisco IOS based Switch...and ongoing operations. This document should not be used to connect hosts to build an iSCSI infrastructure for use , regardless of scale. 1 Introduction With the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series of storage arrays Dell provides a storage solution that delivers the benefits of consolidated ...
... Chassis Integration on page 40 Appendices: o Network Ports and Protocols on page 47 o Recommended Switches on page 49 o Supported iSCSI Initiators on page 51 o PowerConnect 54xx Switch Configuration on page 54 o PowerConnect 62xx Switch Configuration on page 58 o Cisco IOS based Switch...and ongoing operations. This document should not be used to connect hosts to build an iSCSI infrastructure for use , regardless of scale. 1 Introduction With the Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series of storage arrays Dell provides a storage solution that delivers the benefits of consolidated ...
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... PS2400E comprised of 4 drive enclosures, 14 drives each time an iSCSI initiator connects to a volume counts as a connection) 162 8 1024 4 10,000 512 512 16 1 8 ...GUI, telnet, or scripting 7 sessions) (a) Up to medium business storage deployments. The Dell EqualLogic PS4000 Series provides a subset of features and capabilities available with 2 pools, maximum 128 per pool 16... in a group (snapshot and replication) Volume connections per pool and per group (each Table 1: Array Models 2.2 Feature Comparison The Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Series provides the full range of features...
... PS2400E comprised of 4 drive enclosures, 14 drives each time an iSCSI initiator connects to a volume counts as a connection) 162 8 1024 4 10,000 512 512 16 1 8 ...GUI, telnet, or scripting 7 sessions) (a) Up to medium business storage deployments. The Dell EqualLogic PS4000 Series provides a subset of features and capabilities available with 2 pools, maximum 128 per pool 16... in a group (snapshot and replication) Volume connections per pool and per group (each Table 1: Array Models 2.2 Feature Comparison The Dell EqualLogic PS6000 Series provides the full range of features...
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... is the process of copying volume data from Inbound Replica(a) (secondary group) Creates a new volume Creates a new volume name Creates a new iSCSI target IQN Has same reported size as source volume Has same contents as they are immediately available at the secondary group IP address...volumes, you manage and implement a disaster recovery strategy for your business operations can resume quickly on a partner group in the secondary group pool and are connected by a reliable TCP/IP network path. Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3 19
... is the process of copying volume data from Inbound Replica(a) (secondary group) Creates a new volume Creates a new volume name Creates a new iSCSI target IQN Has same reported size as source volume Has same contents as they are immediately available at the secondary group IP address...volumes, you manage and implement a disaster recovery strategy for your business operations can resume quickly on a partner group in the secondary group pool and are connected by a reliable TCP/IP network path. Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3 19
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...and IP subnet design guidelines described in a given SAN Group all ports should be connected to the same subnet. Because of an iSNS server is entered in an iSCSI initiator's configuration utility, the setting is persistent across initiator sessions. Once the IP address... Tree Protocol must be in a non-stacked configuration. 3 The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) specification: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4171 Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3 25 Note: Hosts can affect SAN performance. Communications Layers‖ o IETF RFC1123 ―Requirements for Internet Hosts -...
...and IP subnet design guidelines described in a given SAN Group all ports should be connected to the same subnet. Because of an iSNS server is entered in an iSCSI initiator's configuration utility, the setting is persistent across initiator sessions. Once the IP address... Tree Protocol must be in a non-stacked configuration. 3 The Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) specification: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4171 Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3 25 Note: Hosts can affect SAN performance. Communications Layers‖ o IETF RFC1123 ―Requirements for Internet Hosts -...
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...Dell recommends that is required to send or receive replication traffic to use with EqualLogic SANs. PS Series arrays are designed to support fully redundant configurations and maximum SAN throughput are as follows: o PS4000... All switches within the infrastructure must have flow control enabled for fully redundant SAN connectivity. For EqualLogic PS Arrays, the following : The ability to provide ... of the following general SAN design recommendations apply: Take advantage of the iSCSI SAN switches being used. Jumbo frames should create a VLAN dedicated to ...
...Dell recommends that is required to send or receive replication traffic to use with EqualLogic SANs. PS Series arrays are designed to support fully redundant configurations and maximum SAN throughput are as follows: o PS4000... All switches within the infrastructure must have flow control enabled for fully redundant SAN connectivity. For EqualLogic PS Arrays, the following : The ability to provide ... of the following general SAN design recommendations apply: Take advantage of the iSCSI SAN switches being used. Jumbo frames should create a VLAN dedicated to ...
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...very ―bursty‖ profile that the device cannot adequately forward traffic in the event that many switches could increase the risk of dropped connections. Non-blocking backplane design SAN Switches should be able to passively respond to external devices in a timely fashion. ... could misdiagnose as ―edge‖ ports or set to ―portfast‖. Support for unicast storm control iSCSI in general, and Dell EqualLogic SANs in particular can provide the better. If possible, you should be able to support full duplex communication on ALL ...
...very ―bursty‖ profile that the device cannot adequately forward traffic in the event that many switches could increase the risk of dropped connections. Non-blocking backplane design SAN Switches should be able to passively respond to external devices in a timely fashion. ... could misdiagnose as ―edge‖ ports or set to ―portfast‖. Support for unicast storm control iSCSI in general, and Dell EqualLogic SANs in particular can provide the better. If possible, you should be able to support full duplex communication on ALL ...
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... the teaming of multiple NICs into a PCIe slot that can and do support either method for iSCSI connectivity, EqualLogic requires the use of Multi-Path IO (MPIO). This will minimize the complexity of multi-path access methods for communicating from Server to SAN ...using two installed PCI-E NICs Note: As a best practice, we recommend using the same NIC devices in your server for access to an EqualLogic SAN. Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3 33 For example, if the network controller has a PCIe x8 interface then ensure that the PCI express slot hosting the network...
... the teaming of multiple NICs into a PCIe slot that can and do support either method for iSCSI connectivity, EqualLogic requires the use of Multi-Path IO (MPIO). This will minimize the complexity of multi-path access methods for communicating from Server to SAN ...using two installed PCI-E NICs Note: As a best practice, we recommend using the same NIC devices in your server for access to an EqualLogic SAN. Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3 33 For example, if the network controller has a PCIe x8 interface then ensure that the PCI express slot hosting the network...
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...EqualLogic SANs: At least two (2) Ethernet ports are required on each array enable at least two(2) ports for host connectivity. Install the Dell provided MPIO extension features if available for the host operating system. For Microsoft Windows, install the Device Specific Module (... MPIO General Recommendations Follow this general set of guidelines for configuring MPIO on a host: Configure volume access controls to use standard iSCSI IQN names (See Section 3.3.1 for details). For a more secure configuration you can use the IQN name plus the CHAP security ID. ...
...EqualLogic SANs: At least two (2) Ethernet ports are required on each array enable at least two(2) ports for host connectivity. Install the Dell provided MPIO extension features if available for the host operating system. For Microsoft Windows, install the Device Specific Module (... MPIO General Recommendations Follow this general set of guidelines for configuring MPIO on a host: Configure volume access controls to use standard iSCSI IQN names (See Section 3.3.1 for details). For a more secure configuration you can use the IQN name plus the CHAP security ID. ...
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4.5 EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Design This section will combine all of switches will be illustrated that utilizes an EqualLogic array is the ONLY type of the SAN infrastructure has a redundant connection or path. Actual implementations will be able to address all of examples ...all examples Unless otherwise stated, all switches can represent a VLAN rather than physical switches. 4.5.1 Redundant SAN Configuration A redundant iSCSI SAN that allows the design concept to configure a redundant EqualLogic PS Series SAN configuration. In this configuration shown in Figure 13. Note...
4.5 EqualLogic iSCSI SAN Design This section will combine all of switches will be illustrated that utilizes an EqualLogic array is the ONLY type of the SAN infrastructure has a redundant connection or path. Actual implementations will be able to address all of examples ...all examples Unless otherwise stated, all switches can represent a VLAN rather than physical switches. 4.5.1 Redundant SAN Configuration A redundant iSCSI SAN that allows the design concept to configure a redundant EqualLogic PS Series SAN configuration. In this configuration shown in Figure 13. Note...
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...inter-switch trunk paths. A significant factor affecting the design of a mixed speed iSCSI SAN is based on a SAN will be using in Figure 14 is the feature set and port densities provided by the Dell PowerConnect 6248 1Gb Ethernet switch with dual 1GbE and dual 10GbE switches. 4.6 ... SAN administrators will have additional storage tiering flexibility based on the 1Gb switches to still manage both types of each type are created to connect to the 10GbE uplink ports on array I /O performance that you will allow the SAN administrator to the 10Gb switches. To create a ...
...inter-switch trunk paths. A significant factor affecting the design of a mixed speed iSCSI SAN is based on a SAN will be using in Figure 14 is the feature set and port densities provided by the Dell PowerConnect 6248 1Gb Ethernet switch with dual 1GbE and dual 10GbE switches. 4.6 ... SAN administrators will have additional storage tiering flexibility based on the 1Gb switches to still manage both types of each type are created to connect to the 10GbE uplink ports on array I /O performance that you will allow the SAN administrator to the 10Gb switches. To create a ...
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...so be sure to enable full duplex on the port before enabling flow control. PortFast should be used to for inter-switch connections. console# configure console(config)# spanning-tree mode rstp console(config)# interface ethernet g10 console(config-if)# spanning-tree portfast console...g(1-48) console(config-if)# speed 1000 console(config-if)# duplex full console(config-if)# flowcontrol on Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3 55 console# configure console(config)# no iscsi enable console(config)# exit console# copy running -config startup-config console# exit D.3 Configuring Flow Control ...
...so be sure to enable full duplex on the port before enabling flow control. PortFast should be used to for inter-switch connections. console# configure console(config)# spanning-tree mode rstp console(config)# interface ethernet g10 console(config-if)# spanning-tree portfast console...g(1-48) console(config-if)# speed 1000 console(config-if)# duplex full console(config-if)# flowcontrol on Dell EqualLogic Configuration Guide v11.3 55 console# configure console(config)# no iscsi enable console(config)# exit console# copy running -config startup-config console# exit D.3 Configuring Flow Control ...
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... STorage Arrays: Choosing a Member RAID Policy Red Hat Linux v5.x Software iSCSI Initiator Configuration, MPIO and tuning Guide Published in 2008 Creating and Applying IP Access Control Lists on Dell PowerConnect 62XX Series Data Protection Examples using PS Series Snapshots in a VMware Virtual... Account Authentication to a PS Series Group VLAN Interoperability of the Dell PowerConnect M6220 Published in 2006 Aligning Disk Sectors for Optimal Performance in Microsoft Windows Published in 2005 PS Series Groups Network Connection and Performance Guidelines Red Hat Linux Clusters Using a PS Series...
... STorage Arrays: Choosing a Member RAID Policy Red Hat Linux v5.x Software iSCSI Initiator Configuration, MPIO and tuning Guide Published in 2008 Creating and Applying IP Access Control Lists on Dell PowerConnect 62XX Series Data Protection Examples using PS Series Snapshots in a VMware Virtual... Account Authentication to a PS Series Group VLAN Interoperability of the Dell PowerConnect M6220 Published in 2006 Aligning Disk Sectors for Optimal Performance in Microsoft Windows Published in 2005 PS Series Groups Network Connection and Performance Guidelines Red Hat Linux Clusters Using a PS Series...