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Dell PowerVault NX1950 Upgrade Manual

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Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Systems
Solution Upgrade Guide
Model EMU01
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  • Page 1 Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Systems Solution Upgrade Guide Model EMU01 w w w . d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o m...
  • Page 2 Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell, the DELL logo, and PowerVault are trademarks of Dell Inc.; Microsoft and Windows are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Integrated Solution ....Using the Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure to Expand the Storage on the PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution .
  • Page 4 Unsupported Configurations ....Upgrading Your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Gateway Solution With the Latest Solution Stack ....

  • Page 5: Introduction

    The following upgrade options are discussed in this document: • "Using the Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure to Expand the Storage on the PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution" on page 7. • "Adding SATA II Support to Your Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution"...
  • Page 6 Introduction...

  • Page 7: Upgrading The Storage On Your Dell™ Powervault™ Nx1950 Integrated Solution

    Adding SATA II Support to Your Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution To add SATA II support to your PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution, see the "Adding SATA II Support Drives to Your Enclosure" section in the Dell PowerVault MD3000 RAID Enclosure Hardware Owner's Manual located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
  • Page 8 Upgrading Your PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution...

  • Page 9: Upgrading Your Dell Powervault Nx1950 Integrated And Gateway Solutions To Enable Iscsi Active/Active Target

    You can also perform these upgrade procedures to upgrade the iSCSI Target on a stand-alone system. NOTE: The term 3.0 Target refers to your current configuration of PowerVault NX1950 solution with iSCSI Active/Passive Target 3.0. The term 3.1 Target refers to the PowerVault NX1950 configuration with Active/Active Target using iSCSI Active/Active Target 3.1.

  • Page 10: Planning

    3 Open a Cluadmin interface and delete the previously created Generic Service from the cluster group. 4 Navigate to Add or Remove programs and uninstall the Microsoft iSCSI Target from the passive node(s). Reboot each cluster node of the PowerVault NX1950 storage solution. Configuring 3.1 Target...
  • Page 11 You must close the Microsoft Management Console before installing the new Target. 6 Download the iSCSI 3.1 Software Target from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com and install on all cluster nodes one at a time. To uninstall the current 3.0 Target that is configured in a non-clustered environment: 1 Close all applications.

  • Page 12: Creating A New Target

    Creating a New Target Creating a New Target in a Clustered Environment Perform the following steps to re-create the Targets and re-assign the .vhd files: 1 Create a highly available iSCSI instance: In the Microsoft Management Console, right-click the Microsoft iSCSI Software Target icon and click Create HA instance for iSCSI.
  • Page 13 Select the desired highly available iSCSI instance from the drop-down menu and click Next. Click Finish. The Target is successfully created. 4 Move the volume to the desired highly available iSCSI instance: Launch the Cluadmin interface and locate the volume that the devices (.vhd files) are located on.

  • Page 14: Creating A Target In A Non-Clustered Environment

    Creating a Target in a Non-Clustered Environment Perform the following steps to re-create the Targets and re-assign the .vhd files in a non-clustered environment: 1 Perform the following steps to configure the iSCSI Initiator to discover the Target: In the Discovery tab of the iSCSI Initiator, add the IP address of the newly created highly available iSCSI instance.

  • Page 15: Unsupported Configurations

    3 Import devices by performing the following: Right-click the Devices icon in the Microsoft Management Console and select Import Virtual Disk. Click Next. Browse to the volume the .vhd files are located on. Select the .vhd file, click OK. Click Next and then click Finish. Repeat step b and step c to import all .vhd files.
  • Page 16 Configuring 3.1 Target...

  • Page 17: Upgrading Your

    1 For the supported solution stack versions, revision numbers, and location of all the components, see the Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems Support Matrix located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. 2 Unassign any Logical Unit Numbers(LUNs) as some data may still be on the LUNs and storage array.
  • Page 18 5 Install the new EMC solution stack in the following order: EMC PowerPath 5.x.x NaviCLI NaviAgent Navi Init wizard VDS/VSS Reinstall the Dell Storage Initialization Wizard 6 Restart your system. 7 Re-assign the LUNs to the servers or cluster. Upgrading Your PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution...

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