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Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE
Figure 7: Assigning ports on Compellent Storage to respective Fault Domains
If you get a warning that paths are not balanced, navigate to the left-hand pane, right click
'Controllers' and select 'Rebalance Local Ports'.
Next, a server object needs to be created and the respective FC ports have to be selected to be used
by the server object. This can be accomplished by right clicking 'Servers' on the left pane and selecting
'Create Server'. In Figure 8 below, you can see a server object named "Finance_Server" was created
that includes both of the FC ports on the FC HBA card.
Figure 8: Added Dell PowerEdge Server HBAs to 'Server Object' on Dell Compellent Storage Array
The next step is to enable mulipathing on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. Navigate to
'Start->Administrative Tools->Server Manager->Features->Add Features' and select 'Multipath I/O'.
You can see in Figure 9 below that we have already installed the 'Multipath I/O' feature.
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