Lenovo DE120S, Hardware Installation And Maintenance Manual

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Component Assumptions
Hardware
• You have used the Installation and Setup Instructions included with the controller shelves
to install the hardware.
• You have connected cables between the optional drive shelves and the array controllers.
• You have applied power to the storage array.
• You have installed all other hardware (for example, management station, switches) and
made the necessary connections.
Host
• You have made a connection between the storage array and the data host.
• You have installed the host operating system.
• You are not using Linux as a virtualized guest.
• You are not configuring the data (I/O attached) host to boot from SAN.
Storage management
station
• You are using a 1 Gbps or faster management network.
• You are using a separate station for management rather than the data (I/O attached) host.
• You are using out-of-band management, in which a storage management station sends
commands to the storage array through the Ethernet connections to the controller.
• You have attached the management station to the same subnet as the storage
management ports.
IP addressing
• You have not yet made an Ethernet connection between the management station and the
storage array.
Storage provisioning
• You will not use shared volumes.
• You will create pools rather than volume groups.
Protocol: FC
• You have made all host-side FC connections and activated switch zoning.
• You are using Lenovo-supported FC HBAs and switches.
• You are using FC HBA driver versions as listed on the
DE Series Product Support Site
.
Protocol: iSCSI
• You are using Ethernet switches capable of transporting iSCSI traffic.
• You have configured the Ethernet switches according to the vendor’s recommendation for
iSCSI.
Protocol: SAS
• You are using Lenovo-supported SAS HBAs.
• You are using SAS HBA driver versions as listed on the
DE Series Product Support Site
.
Note: The instructions in this guide include examples for SUSE Linux and for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL). Examples for RHEL are specific to RHEL7.
Fibre Channel Express Setup
Verify the Linux configuration is supported
To ensure reliable operation, you create an implementation plan and then verify that the entire configuration
is supported.
Step 1. Go to the DE Series Product Support Site .
Step 2. Click on the Documentation tab.
Step 3. Look for the Interoperability Matrix document, and click to download or view the file.
Chapter 2
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System setup and configuration
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