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Chapter III, DELLVRTX Hardware installation and configuration

Configuration The IP address of the CMC and log on through the web.

then Download the corresponding firmware from the http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/servicetag/GRY44D2/drivers, Such as CMC and Infrastructure firmware

Configure IDAC at the same time , log in with IDAC, and then update the following components:

In the following sequence:

IDRAC Lifecycle Controller Diagnostics (optional) OS Driver Packs (optional) BIOS NIC RAID othercomponents

Searching (Upgradi

ng Server Component Firmware from File Using CMC webinterface)

Table 7. Supported Server Component Versions for servercomponent Update to N version

Updating Storage Component Using CMC Web Interface

At the same time, the other devices placed on the how LUNs and virtual hard disks are placed in the corresponding M630

and there is . SPERC8

Virtual disks on the GKFX storage can then is mapped to Aserver module.

The Shared PERC 8 card supports single Root Input outputvirtualization (SR-Iov), which allows multiple systems to share AV Ailablehardware Resources

Dual Fault tolerantshared perc 8 Card configuration-in This configuration, there is twoshared PERC 8 cards con Figured in an active-passive cluster. Both Controllerscan access the same storage subsystem. However, only the active controllerprovides the data access. If one of the Shared PERC 8 cards fails, the othershared PERC 8 card takes control in a seamless transition. The default cachepolicy for virtual disks created in this configuration is Write-back

It may take up to minutes for the PowerEdge VRTX Storagesubsystem to completely power on.

The firmware version must is same for both the cards, If Thesystem have a Shared PERC 8 Internal cards, ensure that the F Ault Tolerancestatus is Healthy/normal

This document helps your upgrade the Dell PowerEdge Vrtxsystem from a single controller configuration to a fault tolerant S Haredpoweredge RAID Controller (PERC) 8 configuration. The entire procedure may takeyou up to six hours. The following is the types of Controllerconfigurations:single Shared PERC 8 card configuration-in Thisconfiguratio N, the PowerEdge VRTX system is installed with a single Shared PERC8 card. Fault tolerant Shared PERC 8 card configuration-in thisconfiguration, the PowerEdge VRTX system is installed with both Sh Ared PERC 8cards. Either of the both Shared PERC 8 cards can access the storage subsystem. If one shared perc 8 card fails, the other Shared perc 8 card takes control ina seamless transition

If the Controllers is infault-tolerant mode, then the following information regarding Thefault-tolerant status a nd mode is also displayed:

Fault tolerant mode–shared, active/passive

Fault tolerant Status–healthy/normal, or lost/degraded

Peer Controller-indicates the name of the Controller Thatacts as the Peer (stand-by) in case of a fault-tolerant mode Suppor Ted by Twocontrollers

There are several things in the middle that require extra attention:

first one VRTX is there are two CMC ports, these two can only be as two IP presence cannot exist as a port-groupchannel way

a second in the DELL Official website has a lot of operating system corresponding to the firmware, if we want to just upgrade Chassis firmware (cmcfirmware Chassis ), etc., If we upgrade with the Web version, we can completely ignore that operating system, because these firmware is the same content, but it is best to use the Windows firmware

Third If you want to upgrade SPREC8 content, must be for the system to do, on the official DELL website on the EXSI6 firmware , because this does not need to install, directly can use At the same time, to establish the HA mode, we must first upgrade him to a shared way, at the same time select Master-slave on it.

The third Virtual-disk is the LUN that you used to say so you can mapping to different blades .

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