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Note: Before using this information
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2.8.4 Creating a host on DS5000 ser
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4.9.2 Activating and installing the
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Trademarks IBM, the IBM logo, and i
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Scott Dybas is a Senior Software En
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1.1 What SAN Boot is SAN Boot is a
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IBM System Storage devices use pers
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1.5 What switch zoning is Zoning is
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1.6.3 iSCSI HBA A storage unit is a
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Using software initiators offers th
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1.7.1 Basic concepts Multiple LUNs
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5. Boot into the host server system
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Concepts Thin provisioning provides
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1.8.2 Data protection and retention
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2.1 DS5000 overview The DS5000 seri
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► Controller-based software: - St
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4. Select Do not Automatically Star
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8. As shown in Figure 2-7, enter th
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3. Select Planar SAS from the next
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2. Select System Settings from the
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3. Select Configuration Settings as
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Figure 2-20 Scan for Fibre Devices
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3. Select Selectable Boot Settings
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7. Verify that all the information
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2. We need to add the second storag
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4. Now enter 1 and press Enter as s
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8. Next we see the storage subsyste
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3. On the next panel, enter 01 and
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2.7.2 Adding a second path to the E
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2. When you click your storage subs
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4. Next we select the RAID level, p
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Figure 2-54 Creating the logical dr
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6. After the logical drive is creat
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4. We must now define the host port
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7. You are asked if this host will
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Figure 2-69 Assigning the LUN to th
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2. You can see a window, Manage Hos
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5. Now that you have the second pat
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2. To execute a script on the stora
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5. When the script completes, the r
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2. If the driver is found, it will
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Tip: The rest of the installation p
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2.9.4 Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Multipath
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5. We can also check the volume inf
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2.10.1 Installation steps We are go
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4. After clicking Hard Disks, we cl
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10.We now need to update the SUSE L
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13.When we are in the Boot Loader D
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We are going to install RHEL 5.5 se
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Figure 2-112 Customizing the Softwa
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Tip: Note the name of the new mpp i
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Tip: Make sure that you reboot the
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2.12 FC SAN Boot implementation for
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5. Confirm the ESXi installation by
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3. Verify drive size and click the
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You can find more information about
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5. Clean up the alternate disk volu
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d. Select Activate. The Activate Pa
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Example 2-13 Checking Storage WWPN
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NIM preparations We assume that the
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12.Be sure that the partition alrea
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The output of this comman, as shown
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4. Select your AIX version. The Fix
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3.1 DS8000 overview This section in
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Figure 3-1 IBM System Storage DS880
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Figure 3-3 DS8800 base frame with t
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3.2.3 DS command line interface for
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Select the DS8000 Subsystem and lau
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3.3.1 Fibre Channel architecture Fi
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3.4.2 Downloading and installing a
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3.4.3 BIOS configuration The first
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5. Select Configuration Settings, a
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6. From the Configuration Settings
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11.Change Selectable Boot Settings
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17.During POST, you see QLogic repo
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5. Press Ctrl-E or Alt-E to access
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Figure 3-31 shows the option to ena
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13.A new panel will ask you to sele
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Figure 3-39 Select DVD to install O
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Logical subsystem A logical subsyst
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3. Create the Volume Group to recei
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4. Start your machine and check if
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Figure 3-49 Installing Windows 2008
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e. After rebooting the server, chec
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Redundancy: Avoiding a single point
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12.Choose the Server Base Scenario
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14.Click Partitioning and then Cust
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Figure 3-62 Creating root partition
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19.Click the Install button to init
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3. Edit the /etc/sysconfig/kernel,
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8. Choose the language and click OK
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17.Decide if you want to include ad
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21.After finishing the Red Hat inst
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INITRD_MODULES="processor thermal a
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Implementation possibilities Implem
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5. Clean up the alternate disk volu
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Activating and installing the parti
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► The NIM server is properly conf
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12.Be sure that the partition alrea
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Example 3-17 mpio_get_config -Av ou
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5. Check the configuration as shown
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After creating storage pools, the f
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Creating a generic volume We choose
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5.4.6 Creating Fiber Channel hosts
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Figure 5-27 Select host-port The dr
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5.4.7 Mapping SAN Boot volume to th
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3. Add the desired WWPN to the righ
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Figure 5-38 Node connectivity Verif
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5.5 Host configuration In this sect
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4. Select Configuration Settings, a
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Figure 5-47 Scan Fibre Devices Tip:
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9. Change Selectable Boot Settings
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During POST, you can see QLogic rep
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2. Select the adapter that you want
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5.5.4 Configuring an Emulex adapter
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Figure 5-66 Scan Fibre Devices Tip:
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12.During post, after Emulex banner
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Tip: Before setting up SAN Boot for
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7. Browse to the source (media) of
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5.7.1 Multipath I/O Figure 5-77 Ins
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4. After the setup completes, you a
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► You can also verify that SDDDSM
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Perform the following steps to migr
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3. Select the Remote volume (2145 f
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Figure 5-91 vSphere Login To manage
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3. You can verify the multipathing
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5.9.1 SAN Boot using SUSE Linux Ent
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6. Set the clock and time zone. Nex
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8. Click the Partitioning link to c
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10.You see a confirmation dialogue
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14.Change the Boot loader to reflec
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16.Click Ok. Now the installer will
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5. Click Next to proceed with the i
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The next window displays additional
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8. Select Review and modify partiti
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10.Select TimeZone and click Next.
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12.Click Next to start the installa
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14.The server will boot off of the
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Example 5-3 multipathd command line
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5.10 SAN Boot for AIX You can SAN B
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8. Select 2 for IPL Configuration M
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12.After the correct IP parameters
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16.Select 2 for Normal Mode Boot, a
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10.Press 5 key to Select Boot Optio
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14.Proceed with Normal Boot, as sho
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3. Press 2 to Change/Show Installat
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7. If you do not see the disk that
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11.Press 1 to start the installatio
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5.10.5 SDDPCM 7. After the system f
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6.1 iSCSI overview The Internet Sma
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6.1.2 iSCSI target 6.1.3 Nodes 6.1.
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6.2 iSCSI and DS5000 storage subsys
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6.4 Step-by-step iSCSI SAN Boot imp
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3. Disable any onboard or internal
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3. From the Fast!UTIL Options windo
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Figure 6-10 Initiator IP Settings 6
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9. Change the Adapter Boot Mode to
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3. You are presented with a panel f
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6. You are presented with a confirm
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c. A wizard will guide you through
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2. Next, we create the host definit
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c. In the next window, we specify t
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Figure 6-30 Select Host type f. Fin
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2. From the Add Host Port Identifie
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3. From the Fast!UTIL Options windo
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6.5 Operating system installation A
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4. The next window displays additio
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Figure 6-47 Master Boot Record (MBR
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7. Follow the installation wizard u
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Figure 6-51 SUSE Linux Enterprise S
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5. The next panel displays the iSCS
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Figure 6-56 Installation Settings 8
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Example 6-1 multipathd command line
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Example 6-3 Output of multipath -ll
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6.5.5 Failover/failback verificatio
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multipath -ll output does not show
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Online resources Help from IBM Thes
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discovery order 202 Disk Mirroring
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M Maintenance menu 187 Manage Host
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Switched-fabric 8, 130 switches 286
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