IBM TotalStorage NAS 300, User Reference

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Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Who should read this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Frequently used terms
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Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Descriptions of the NAS Gateway 300 publications . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Hardcopy publications shipped with the NAS Gateway 300 . . . . . . . . xii
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Web sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Roadmap for setting up and configuring the NAS Gateway 300 . . . . . . . 3
Cluster setup requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Methods for setting up the NAS Gateway 300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Accessing Universal Manageability Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Initial setup and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Setting up the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 3. Configuration and administration tools . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Using a keyboard, monitor, and mouse for setup and configuration . . . . . . 13
Summary of configuration and administration tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Terminal Services and the IBM NAS Administration console . . . . . . . . 15
Installing Terminal Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting to the desktop through Terminal Services . . . . . . . . . . 15
IBM NAS Administration console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Determining who is using the network-attached storage . . . . . . . . . 16
IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing the IBM Advanced Appliance Configuration Utility. . . . . . . . 17
Initial network adapter selection and connection to the IAACU
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IAACU agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
IAACU console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Universal Manageability Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Starting UM Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Windows 2000 for Network Attached Storage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Determining the tool to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Telnet Server support
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SNMP support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 4. Setting up storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Configuring arrays and logical drives on the fibre-attached storage . . . . . . 27
Expanding the LUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using DiskPart with clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Formatting the logical drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Chapter 5. Completing networking, clustering, and storage access setup 33
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