Dell 651F, 650F manual Supported Novell NetWare SAN Configurations

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If you are using Novell Storage Services (NSS) volumes in your SAN, you must edit each system’s autoexec.ncf file. In this file, find the command load nss.nlm and change it to LOAD NSS /AutoDeactivateVolume=all /Mail- boxSize=16000 /ClosedFileCacheSize=100000 /CacheBalance=60. This command prevents the NSS manager from mounting all NSS volumes attached to the SAN.

Table 2-2. Supported Novell NetWare SAN Configurations

Component

Supported Maximum

Conditions/Requirements

 

 

 

Servers

Maximum of 20 servers

 

running NetWare; a

 

maximum of 24 serv-

 

ers for a backup-only

 

SAN.

See the Release Notes on the Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Utilities CD Version 4.0 or the Dell Power- Vault Fibre Channel Update CD Version 4.0 or see the Dell Power- Vault Storage Area Network (SAN) Version 4.0 Revision Compatibility Guide at http://support.dell.com for a list of supported servers and required revision levels.

Host bus

Maximum of two HBAs

Allows a maximum of 40 HBAs in a

adapters

per server.

SAN and 48 HBAs in a backup-only

(HBAs)

 

SAN.

 

 

 

Management

One Windows NT or

The Windows NT or Windows 2000

station

Windows 2000 system

management station must be

 

is required for managing

attached to the same local-area or

 

storage.

wide-area network as one of the

 

 

NetWare servers, which must be

 

 

SAN-attached to the other NetWare

 

 

servers. At least one of the SAN-

 

 

attached NetWare servers must run

 

 

Data Managed Node for NetWare.

 

 

 

Target storage

Maximum of eight ports

A maximum of eight ports are avail-

ports

for storage per fabric.

able for any combination of the fol-

 

 

lowing devices: PowerVault 35F

 

 

bridge, PowerVault 650F and 651F

 

 

disk processor enclosures (DPEs).

 

 

 

35F bridges

Maximum of eight

Allows a maximum of eight bridges

 

PowerVault 35F bridges

in a backup SAN.

 

 

 

120T

Maximum of four Pow-

Allows a maximum of 32 PowerVault

autoloaders

erVault 120T DLT4000

120T autoloaders per SAN.

 

or DLT7000 autoload-

 

 

ers per PowerVault 35F

 

 

bridge.

 

 

 

 

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