In this video, I will demonstrate attaching a windows 2016 host to a storage center array with fiber channel IO cards. One of the first prerequisites for attaching a windows 2016 host is to install MPI. If using windows 2012, this step can be skipped as Dell storage manager will install it for you to install MPI. Right.
Click the windows icon, click on programs and features. Click on turn windows features on or off when the wizard opens up. Click next click next, click next, click next, scroll down to multi path IO select it and click next. Select the auto restart option. Then click yes and install. Launch a Dell storage manager. Client. Click on configure this host to access a storage center, provide the credentials and log into the storage center.
The host will be connecting to review the prerequisites and click next, the storage center we are connecting to supports both fiber channel and is cuzzy. The DSM client didn't find any existing fiber channel connections to the array. So it's asking if you want to use is cuzzy if we had zoned the hose to the array prior to starting this wizard this screen would not be displayed. Click, no, the server has a two port fiber channel. HB The wizard will provide you with information on what zones need to be created but it can't tell what switch the HB is connected to document the H B's worldwide name. Then log into one of the switches. We'll start with fault.
The main one click configure zone admin scroll down to the port number that the server HB is plugged into our server is connected to port 20 on both switches. Expand out the worldwide name to see the worldwide port name which is underneath the worldwide no name. If you don't see the same worldwide name that is displayed in DSM log into the other switch, highlight the worldwide port name, then click on create new alias. Enter a name. Typically this is a server name.
If the server has multiple connections to each, which you would want to also identify the different H bas we only have one connection to each switch. Click OK, then the right arrow to move the worldwide name over. Next click on the zone tab, click news on enter a name for the zone. It is typically descriptive of what is in the zone. In this case, we use the server name and the array name, expand out aliases and locate the newly created server alias and the aliases for the virtual ports of the storage center.
Highlight all three of them or one at a time and click on the right arrow. Next click on zone, config tab, expand out zones, find a newly created zone, highlight it and click the right arrow. Click on save. Config click on yes, wait for the changes to be completed. Then click on enable config click. OK. Click, yes. After it is completed, you can close the zoning wizard open DSM and select the appropriate fault domain.
In our case, it was fault domain one click. OK. The wizard now displays the other HB ports worldwide name document and open the zoning wizard. On the other switch for the other fault domain, just like the other switch. We create an alias for the HP and create a zone and then add it to the config and enable it. When zoning is complete. We continue with the DSM wizard. We select the appropriate fault domain click. OK? The wizard will show connectivity as not connected. Click on, refresh the status should change to fully connected if it doesn't troubleshoot prior to continuing, click next to continue for windows server 2016.
If you didn't install MP prior to running this wizard, you will see this error, just cancel out of the wizard and reboot rerun the wizard and it will succeed. If MP was installed prior to running the wizard, you will see the screen, you can use the copy to clipboard feature to document what best practices were applied. Click on launch wizard to create a volume for this host. Then click finish, update the volume name and click next, update the capacity and click next.
Make any modifications necessary for the storage options and click next, adjust the snapshot profiles for the volume and click next, click next, then finish. Restart the server after the server has rebooted. Open disk management. Locate the new disk, right, click it and bring it online. Right. Click again and choose initialized disk. Choose the partition style and click. OK. Right. Click the partition and then new simple volume. Click next, next, next, next, then finish the volume can now be accessed.
