IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 Hardware Planning And Installation Manual page 4

Operating environment........................................................................................................................ 29
IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 physical environment requirements............................................ 30
IP address allocation and usage.......................................................................................................... 40
Planning for high availability......................................................................................................................40
Storage configuration planning................................................................................................................. 40
Planning your network and storage network............................................................................................ 40
Planning for 100 Gbps adapter............................................................................................................ 41
Planning for cables.................................................................................................................................... 41
Connections for IBM Elastic Storage System 3200............................................................................ 41
Planning for adapters........................................................................................................................... 43
Supported environment.............................................................................................................................44
Chapter 4. Installing............................................................................................ 45
Installation overview................................................................................................................................. 45
Detailed installation steps (SSR task)....................................................................................................... 47
ESS system view...................................................................................................................................47
Rack details.......................................................................................................................................... 47
Installing the EMS server in a rack.......................................................................................................47
Unpacking IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 (IBM SSR task)............................................................47
Installing support rails for the IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 system (IBM SSR task)............... 48
Installing enclosures (IBM SSR task).................................................................................................. 53
Installing cable management assembly (IBM SSR task).................................................................... 56
Connecting the components (IBM SSR task).......................................................................................58
Connecting a mini USB cable to the SSR access port (IBM SSR task)................................................ 59
Install and connect management server 5105-22E........................................................................... 61
Connect power cords to rack PDUs..................................................................................................... 61
ESS 5000 SCx/SLx network cabling.....................................................................................................61
Connect AC (wall) power to the rack PDUs..........................................................................................61
Power On switches, storage enclosures, and servers......................................................................... 61
Check servers with essutils tool..................................................................................................... 61
Best practices for network configuration (Customer reference task)...................................................... 61
Prerequisites for installation completion by SSR......................................................................................62
Completing the ESS 3200 installation at the customer site (SSR task)................................................... 64
Checking ESS management server and protocol nodes........................................................................... 76
Protocol node checks........................................................................................................................... 81
Chapter 5. Monitoring the system using LEDs........................................................83
System status LEDs................................................................................................................................... 83
Drive carrier assembly LEDs...................................................................................................................... 84
Fan module LEDs....................................................................................................................................... 85
Power module LEDs................................................................................................................................... 86
Server canister operator panel LEDs.........................................................................................................87
Ethernet port LEDs............................................................................................................................... 88
Server canister status LEDs................................................................................................................. 89
Chapter 6. Troubleshooting (SSR tasks)................................................................ 91
EMS issues................................................................................................................................................. 91
IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 issues..................................................................................................93
Issues logging in to IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 BMC.............................................................. 93
Network switch issues............................................................................................................................... 93
SSR port login issues................................................................................................................................. 94
Assigning the management IP address.....................................................................................................94
Rebooting BMC.......................................................................................................................................... 96
Fixing console redirection..........................................................................................................................97
Deleting characters in essutils.................................................................................................................. 97
IP address setting issues...........................................................................................................................97
Issues in the console redirection enablement using ipmitool................................................................. 98
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