Dell ISCSI manual Group Configuration, Initializing An Array And Creating a Group

Prompt	Description
IP address	Network address for the Ethernet 0 network interface.
Netmask	Combines with the IP address to identify the subnet on which the Ethernet 0 network interface resides.
Default	Network address for the device used to connect subnets and forward network traffic beyond the local
gateway	network. A default gateway is used to allow the Ethernet 0 network interface to communicate outside
	the local network (for example, to allow access to volumes from computers outside the local network).
	NOTE: The default gateway must be on the same subnet as the Ethernet 0 network interface.
RAID policy	RAID policy configured on the first member of the group:

–RAID 10 — Striping on top of multiple RAID 1 (mirrored) sets, with one or two spare disks.

–RAID 10 provides good performance for random writes, in addition to the highest availability.

–RAID 50 — Striping on top of multiple RAID 5 (distributed-parity) sets, with one or two spare disks. RAID 50 provides a good balance of performance (especially for sequential writes), availability, and capacity.

–RAID 5 — One RAID 5 set, with one spare disk. RAID 5 is similar to RAID 50, with more capacity (two additional disks) but lower availability and performance.

–RAID 6 — Of the total number of disks installed in the array, two disks are used for parity and one disk is a spare. The remainder are data disks.

Group Configuration

Prompt	Description
Group name	Unique name (up to 63 letters, numbers, or hyphens) used to identify the group. The first
	character must be a letter or number.
Group IP address	Network address for the group. The group IP address is used for group administration and
	for discovery of the resources (i.e. volumes). Access to the resources is through a physical
	port IP address.
Password for managing	Password required when adding members to the group. The password must have 3 to 16
group membership	alphanumeric characters and is case-sensitive.
Password for the default	Password that overrides the factory-set password (grpadmin) for the default grpadmin
group administration	account. The password must have 3 to 16 alphanumeric characters and is case-sensitive.
account
Microsoft service user	CHAP user name and password used to enable Microsoft service (VSS or VDS) access to
name and password	the group. The user name must have between 3 and 54 alphanumeric characters. The
	password must have 12 to 16 alphanumeric characters, and is case-sensitive.
	Microsoft services running on a computer must be allowed access to the group in order to
	create VSS snapshots in the group or use VDS.

Initializing An Array And Creating A Group

1.Start the Remote Setup Wizard.

2.In the Welcome dialog box, select Initialize a PS Series array, and click Next. A list of arrays is displayed in the Select an Array to Initialize dialog box.

3.Select an array and click Details to display details, including the serial number and MAC address.

4.Select the array you want to initialize and click Next.

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