Assigning The Virtual Disks To Cluster Nodes; Advanced Or Optional Storage Features - Dell EMC AX4-5 Hardware Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

Assigning the Virtual Disks to Cluster Nodes

NOTE:
For best practice, have at least one virtual disk for each application. If
multiple NTFS partitions are created on a single LUN or virtual disk, these partitions
will not be able to fail over individually from node-to-node.
To perform data I/O to the virtual disks, assign the virtual disks to a cluster
node by performing the following steps:
1 Open a Web browser.
2 Type the storage system IP address in the Address field.
The Navisphere Express console is displayed.
3 Login with user name and password that were created during the storage
initialization.
4 In the Manage menu,
Click Disk Pools. You can create multiple disk pools.
a
Click Virtual Disks. You can create multiple virtual disks for each disk
b
pool.
In the Virtual Disks screen, select the virtual disks that you want to
c
assign to the cluster node and click Assign Server.
5 In Assign Server screen, select the cluster nodes that you want to assign to
the virtual disk and click Apply.
6 Repeat step 4 and step 5 for each virtual disk.
7 Close the Navisphere Express window.
8 Verify that the PowerPath on the cluster nodes can access all paths to the
virtual disks.

Advanced or Optional Storage Features

Your Dell/EMC AX4-5 storage array may be configured to provide optional
features that can be used in with your cluster. These features include
Snapshot Management, SANCopy, Navisphere Manager and MirrorView™.
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