8.Configure zoning on the Fibre Channel switches by turning on the servers one at a time. Each zone consists of a cluster pair (2 servers), the PowerVault 65xF, and the Fibre
See the Dell PowerVault SAN documentation for information about configuring zoning.
9.Start the Storage Consolidation Administrator on the Storage Consolidation Master node. For each cluster, use the Server Group Assign option to assign LUNs to both cluster nodes. It is important to use the Server Group Assign option to assign one disk to multiple servers.
See the Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation documentation for more information.
10.Shutdown Windows on all of the servers.
11.Install MSCS software on each cluster. Because each cluster has its own set of disks now, follow the standard PowerEdge Cluster
12.Install Dell OpenManage Data Agent on both nodes of one cluster and create the Generic Service cluster resource for the Agent.
Installing the QLogic Fibre Channel Configuration Utility
To install the QLogic Fibre Channel configuration utility, perform the following steps:
1.Turn on or reboot the server.
2.Insert the Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Utilities CD into the
3.Start the QLogic Fibre Channel configuration utility.
4.Read the component information, and click Next.
5.Select the desired destination folder, and click Next.
6.Select QLConfig Application and QLConfig Agent, and click Next.
The QLogic Fibre Channel configuration utility installation starts and displays an information screen.
7.Click Next.
8.Read the displayed information, and click Next.
9.Select the destination folder, and click Next.
10.Select the program folder, and click Next.
The SAN Configuration Agent installation starts and displays an information screen.
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