About Your Host; Storage Enclosure Management Installation - Windows; Mpio (Multipath I/O); Windows Installation - Dell PowerVault MD3060e Administrator's Manual

About Your Host

When connecting to a Dell PowerEdge Server:
• See the MD3060e Storage Enclosure Support Matrix for information on supported SAS Host-bus
Adapters (HBA's).
• If the host is connected to the enclosure via multiple paths (2 or more SAS connections), the host
must have multipath configured properly. For more details on multipath configuration, please refer to
the documentation related to the operating system for the server.
The MD3060e Storage Enclosure is compatible with Windows and Linux operating systems. For more
details on the specific operating systems supported, please see dell.com/support.
Storage Enclosure Management Installation — Windows

MPIO (Multipath I/O)

You must configure Windows MPIO, for the Storage Enclosure Management Software to recognize the
hardware . See Microsoft documentation related to MPIO for configuration procedures.
NOTE: Dell recommends the Failover Only policy.

Windows Installation

1. Download the Storage Enclosure Management Software installation package from dell.com/support.
2. Run the command prompt as an Administrator.
NOTE: The command prompt must be an Administrator prompt for proper use of the CLI.
3. Navigate to the download directory of the installer:
4. Execute the installer
StorageEnclosureManagment_Install.exe
5. Follow the on-screen instructions and accept the End User License Agreement.
After successful installation you will be able to execute secli commands from the command prompt.

Silent Installation

1. Download the Storage Enclosure Management Software installation package from dell.com/support.
2. Run the command prompt as an Administrator.
NOTE: The command prompt must be an Administrator prompt for proper use of the CLI.
3. Navigate to the download directory of the extracted installer.
4. Run the installed program by running the command:
StorageEnclosureManagment_Install.exe –i silent
This command installs the Storage Enclosure Management Software with all the default settings. The
default installation directory is C:\Program Files\Dell\ StorageEnclosureManagment.
5. Accept all End User License Agreements.
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