Totalstorage Ds300 Setup; Iscsi Host Bus Adapter Setup And Installation Preparation - IBM TotalStorage DS300 Best Practices Manual
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module connection and one time over the external ports of the switches. This will
cause network problems.
The setup uses a few names which will be found in the various figures. They are:
System name is COLORADO.
The logical drive used to boot from is named COLORADO-BOOT-W.
The TotalStorage DS300 network ports were configured as described in 4.4.1,
"Setup of management ports of TotalStorage DS300 and DS400" on page 76 and
4.4.2, "Setting the IP addresses of the iSCSI ports from the command line
interface" on page 80.
7.1.3 TotalStorage DS300 setup
For this installation, one logical drive COLORADO-BOOT-W was created to boot from.
The array of this logical drive is owned by controller A. An additional logical drive
with name COLORADO-LOG was created to have an additional logical drive during
the HBA setup. This logical drive is in its own array and also owned by Controller
A. 4.8.1, "Create arrays, logical drives, and assign IQNs on the TotalStorage
DS300" on page 114 describes how to create arrays and logical drives. The
second HBA has at this time no access to logical drives.
Table 7-3 Array and logical drive configuration of the TotalStorage DS300
Array
Array1
Array2
Array3
7.1.4 iSCSI host bus adapter setup and installation preparation
The following steps are done to configure the QLogic iSCSI Expansion Card for
IBM ^ BladeCenter in a IBM ^ Blade HS20. The expansion card
is installed and uses the module bays 3 and 4 to connect outside of the
BladeCenter.
1. Update BIOS and firmware of the HBA to the latest level supported by IBM for
the DS300. The BIOS can be downloaded from IBM's support Web page:
http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MI
GR-60280
http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=ibm&lndocid=MI
GR-58619
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Drives
Owned by
Raid Level
2
A
1
6
A
50
4
B
10
Logical Drive
Size
COLORADO-BOOT-W
10GB
COLORADO-LOG
10GB
COLORADO-MAIL
150GB
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