Post Connection Establishment Steps - Dell PowerVault MD3600i Deployment Manual

The Do Not Connect option may be selected as the default option if the
utility recommends not to connect to the iSCSI port. Also, even if the best
recommended configuration is presented (whenever possible), you can still
override this configuration by selecting the other host IP addresses from the
drop-down list.
Suboptimal Configuration Warnings
In the following cases, a warning is displayed, that you must confirm, to
continue:
• The host IP addresses are selected in such a way that any host IP address
establishes an iSCSI session with only one storage array controller in a dual
controller (duplex) configuration.
• The host IP addresses are selected in such a way that a host IP address
establishes two or more iSCSI sessions with the same storage array
controller.

Post Connection Establishment Steps

After iSCSI connectivity is established between the host server(s) and the
storage array, a few additional steps are required before reading and writing to
the array. To summarize these steps, you will need to:
• Create disk groups and virtual disks
• Perform host-to-virtual disk mapping
• Complete operating system specific device recognition, partitioning, and
file system creation
To get detailed information regarding the first two tasks, refer to the Owner's
Manual, specifically, the sections entitled Creating Disk Groups and Virtual
Disks and Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. The Owner's Manual can be found
at support.dell.com/manuals.
For the final task, the source for your documentation will depend on your
operating system.
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Post Installation Tasks