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 TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 Warranty and Support Information document on the IBM

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Documentation CD.

Obtaining the documentation from the IBM Support Web site

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All IBM TotalStorage

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

Support Web site or on the IBM Documentation CD that comes with the storage subsystem. To get to the
latest documentation and technical updates on the IBM Support Web site, complete the following steps:

1. Go to http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/.

2. In the Browse by topic section, click Publications.

3. On the Publications page, in the Brand field, select Servers.

4. In the Family field, select TotalStorage DS300 or TotalStorage DS400.

5. Click Continue.

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) of the IBM TotalStorage DS300 and DS400 Dual Controller Hardware Installation and User’s Guide for
more information.

Installing the hardware

Complete the following steps to install the hardware:

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 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 Dual Controller
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 Dual
Controller 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 Dual Controller 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 Dual Controller
Hardware Installation and User’s Guide.

7. Turn on the storage subsystem (see “Turning the storage subsystem on and off” in Chapter 9 of the
Dual Controller Hardware Installation and User’s Guide for instructions).

Setting up the controller defaults

Complete the following steps to set up the RAID controller defaults:

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 Dual Controller 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, type passw0rd (all lowercase letters with a zero, not O, in passw0rd)

and press Enter.

4. For Controller A only: At the DS300 or DS400 prompt, type 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 Describes the current parameter values

If a parameter has a default value, the value appears 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 value that you type in double-quotation marks (“”) so that the value is accepted,
even if it is the same word as a command.

Use the following information to assign values for the parameters:

hostname

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

domain name

Type the domain to which the system belongs.

SAN name

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

timezone

Type the system time zone.

system date

Type the system date in the format hh:mm@day/month/year.

define administrator password

Define whether an administrator password is required. If a password is required, you are
prompted for that password, which must be typed 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.

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

DHCP server will not be used.

If you type yes, the wizard takes you to the “Save new configuration” parameter. If you type
no, the wizard continues to prompt you for information about the main Ethernet interface of
the system.

IP address

Type 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.

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