IBM TotalStorage DS300, TotalStorage DS400 Quick Installation Manual

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IBM TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 Quick Installation Guide

Before using this information and the product it supports, read the “IBM Statement of Limited Warranty”
in the IBM Machine Types 1700 and 1701 Warranty and Support Information document on the IBM

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Documentation CD.

Obtaining the documentation from the IBM Support Web site

All IBM TotalStorage

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documentation that is referred to in this Quick Installation Guide is on the IBM

Documentation CD that comes with the storage subsystem. The storage subsystem might have features
that are not described in the documentation that you received with the unit. The documentation might be
updated occasionally to include information about those features, or technical updates might be available
to provide additional information that is not included in the storage subsystem documentation. These
updates are available from the IBM Web site. To check for updated documentation and technical updates,
complete the following steps.

Note: Changes are made periodically to the IBM Web site. The actual procedure might vary slightly from

what is described in this document.

1. Go to http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/.

2. On the “Support for TotalStorage products” page, under Select your product, in the Product family

field, select Disk storage systems.

3. In the Product field, select DS300 Disk System or DS400 Disk System.

4. Click Go.

5. Under Technical resources, select Documentation.

Before you begin, you should have a plan for how you want to install this storage subsystem into a
storage network. This plan should allow for the data servers, management station, host bus adapters,
switches, and other equipment. See Chapter 2 (for TotalStorage DS300) or Chapter 5 (for TotalStorage
DS400) in the IBM TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 Hardware Installation and User’s Guide for more
information.

Installing the hardware

To install the hardware, complete the following steps:

1. Remove all packing materials.

2. Install the rails and the DS300 or DS400 storage subsystem into a standard EIA 19-inch rack (see the

printed Rack Installation Instructions document that comes with the storage subsystem for instructions).

3. Install the front bezel on the DS300 or DS400 storage subsystem (see Chapter 10 of the Hardware
Installation and User’s Guide for instructions).

4. Install hard disk drives in the DS300 or DS400 storage subsystem (see Chapter 10 of the Hardware
Installation and User’s Guide for instructions).

5. Connect the power cables that come with the DS300 or DS400 storage subsystem to the power
distribution unit (see “Power cabling” in Chapter 9 of the Hardware Installation and User’s Guide for
instructions).

6. Install the small-form-factor pluggable (SFP) modules and connect the Ethernet and Fibre Channel
cables. For instructions, see Chapter 3 (for DS300) or Chapter 7 (for DS400) of the Hardware Installation
and User’s Guide.

Important: If you want to use the IBM ServeRAID

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Manager program to manage the DS300 or DS400
storage subsystem, make sure that an Ethernet cable is connected to the management port on each
controller.

7. Turn on the storage subsystem (see “Turning the storage subsystem on and off” in Chapter 9 of the

Hardware Installation and User’s Guide for instructions).

Setting up the controller defaults

To set up the RAID controller defaults, complete the following steps:

1. After turning on the storage subsystem, wait until the green controller ready LED is lit; then, from a
management station, open a Telnet session to IP address 192.168.70.123. For the location and a
description of the LED, see the storage subsystem rear view section in Chapter 4 (for DS300) or
Chapter 8 (for DS400) of the Hardware Installation and User’s Guide.

2. Change to administrator mode by typing administrator, admin, or ad and pressing Enter.

3. When prompted for a password, enter passw0rd (all lowercase letters with a zero, not O, in passw0rd).

4. For Controller A only: At the DS300 or DS400 prompt, enter setup.

The Setup wizard prompts you to enter the values for the parameters that are required to configure
the system to connect to a local network. Yo u can also use the three commands that are described in
the following table.

Table 1. Setup wizard commands

Command Function

abort Quit the Setup wizard without saving changes

back Go to the previous parameter

help Display the current parameter values

If a parameter has a default value, the prompt displays the value in square brackets ( [ ] ). Some
parameters require an arbitrary string, in which case the commands back and abort cannot be used.
In these cases, enclose the string in quotation marks ("").

Use the following information to assign values for the parameters:

hostname

Enter the name that you want to use for the system. Enter back to repeat this prompt.

domain name

Enter the domain to which the system belongs.

SAN name

Enter the Storage Area Network (SAN) to which the system belongs.

timezone

Enter the system time zone.

system date

Enter the system date in the format hh:mm@dd/mm/yy.

define administrator password

Define whether an administrator password is required. If a password is required, you are
prompted for that password, which you must enter twice. Press Ctrl to leave the password
unchanged. Press Enter twice to not require an administrator password.

define operator password

Define whether an operator password is required.

default gateway

Enter the name or IP address of a router to which packets are sent if their destinations do not
have routes that are defined in the system. Enter no to clear the default gateway.

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DNS servers

Enter the IP addresses of up to three systems that will act as DNS servers. Enter no to clear
the list of DNS servers.

dhcp Enter yes if a DHCP server will be used to discover the system network values. Enter no if a

DHCP server will not be used.

If you enter yes, the wizard takes you to the finish parameter. If you enter no, the wizard
continues to prompt you for information about the main Ethernet interface of the system.

IP address

Enter the IP address, in x.x.x.x format. You can also define the netmask by typing its width
after the IP address.

Note: For the DS300 storage subsystem, the management interface must be in a separate

network segment from your iSCSI ports.

netmask

Define the size of the netmask. Any of the common formats are accepted.

Note: If you entered the netmask as part of the IP address in the previous prompt, this

parameter is skipped.

broadcast

address

Enter the address to be used for broadcasts. Any of the common formats are accepted.

peer IP address

Enter the IP address for the peer controller, in x.x.x format.

Note: For the DS300 storage subsystem, the management interface must be in a separate

network segment from your iSCSI ports.

peer

netmask

Define the size of the netmask for the peer controller. Any of the common formats are
accepted.

peer broadcast address

Enter the address to use by the peer controller for broadcasts. Any of the common formats are
accepted.

finish Enter yes to apply the values that you have entered, or enter no to return to the first

parameter and change the values that you have entered.

Note:

If you changed the management IP address in step 4 on page 2, you must open a Telnet session to

the new IP address.

Installing IBM ServeRAID Manager and adding a ServeRAID agent

To install the IBM ServeRAID Manager program and add a ServeRAID agent for the storage subsystem,
complete the following steps:

1. Install the ServeRAID Manager program on the management station, using the ServeRAID Application
CD that comes with the DS300 or DS400 storage subsystem (see the IBM TotalStorage DS300 and DS400
Software Installation Guide for help with installing ServeRAID Manager).

2. Start the ServeRAID Manager program; then, complete the following steps to add a management
station object and a ServeRAID agent for the storage subsystem:

a. To add a management station object, right-click Networked Storage in the ServeRAID Manager

interface; then, select Add Management Station (see “Adding a remote system object” in the
ServeRAID Manager online help for more information about adding a management station).

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b. To add a ServeRAID agent, right-click the management station object in the interface and select

Add agent. Use the IP address that you assigned to the storage subsystem in step 4 on page 2.
(See “Adding a Management Station Agent Object” in the ServeRAID Manager online help for
more information about adding an agent.)

Note: Enter the IP address of controller A or controller B. Only one controller must be added as a

ServeRAID agent.

Installing the controller firmware

The RAID controller firmware is updated occasionally to improve the function or performance of the
RAID controller in the storage subsystem. Obtain the latest firmware before proceeding to the next steps
(see the Software Installation Guide for information about how to locate and download the latest firmware).

Setting IP addresses for DS300 iSCSI ports

To set the IP addresses for the iSCSI ports on the DS300 storage subsystem, complete the following steps:

1. Open a Telnet session to controller A using either the default IP address (192.168.70.123) or the IP
address that you assigned in step 4 on page 2.

2. Log in as administrator using either the default password (passw0rd) or the password that you
defined in step 4 on page 2.

3. To set the IP address for iSCSI port eth2, enter the following commands:

interface manage eth2[x] ip IPaddress

interface manage eth2[x] netmask netmask

interface manage eth2[x] broadcast broadcast

where x is the controller, IPaddress is the IP address that you want to use for that port, and netmask is
the management network subnet address.

4. To set the IP address for iSCSI port eth3, enter the following commands:

interface manage eth3[x] ip IPaddress

interface manage eth3[x] netmask netmask

interface manage eth3[x] broadcast broadcast

where x is the controller, IPaddress is the IP address that you want to use for that port, and netmask is
the management network subnet address.

See the IBM TotalStorage DS300 Problem Determination Guide or IBM TotalStorage DS400 Problem
Determination Guide on the IBM Support We b site for a list of all the available commands.

5. Enter save to save the modified settings.

Configuring the RAID device in ServeRAID Manager

To create a RAID array and configure the access control list for the logical drive, complete the following
steps:

1. In the ServeRAID Manager interface on the management station, in the right pane, click the agent
(which is displayed as a controller device) that you created in step 2b in “Installing IBM ServeRAID
Manager and adding a ServeRAID agent” on page 3. The interface displays the Enclosure View pane
for the storage subsystem.

2. In the upper-right corner of the Enclosure View pane, click the disk icon. The array configuration
menu is displayed.

3. In the array configuration menu, select Create logical drive in a new array; then, click Next.

4. To select the drives that you want in the array (see the “Creating arrays and hot-spare drives” section

in the ServeRAID Manager online help for more information), complete the following steps:

a. Press Ctrl and click each drive that you want in the array.

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