Deployment Guide

■ Prerequisite

– Minimum – One client VIP for each cluster

– Flat network recommendation – One client VIP for each cluster

– Routed network recommendation – One client VIP for each FS8600 client network port

□ (iSCSI only) Four IP addresses reserved on the iSCSI SAN network for each appliance (two for each controller)

□ Network resource information for FluidFS cluster conguration

• Client network default gateway IP address

• (Optional) DNS server IP addresses

• (Optional) NTP server host name or IP addresses

• (Optional) Active Directory FQDN and administrator credentials to join domain or OU in a domain.

• (Optional) LDAP server host name or IP addresses

• (Optional) NIS server host name or IP addresses

• (Optional) NDMP DMA server IP addresses

• (Optional) Antivirus server host names or IP addresses

Network Ports

Make sure the required and feature-specic ports are allowed on the network.

For a list of ports used by the FluidFS cluster, see the Dell Fluid File System Version 6 Support Matrix. This matrix is available from

dell.com/support.

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Prerequisite

□ Required ports are allowed.

□ Feature-specic ports are allowed as needed.

SAN Conguration

Make sure that Storage Center software and Dell Storage Manager software are installed and satisfy the deployment prerequisites.

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Prerequisite

□ The Storage Center systems are running the required version of Storage Center software:

• An SC9000 storage system requires Storage Center 6.7.3 or later.

• An SC8000 storage system requires Storage Center 6.5.10 or later.

• An SC7020 storage system requires Storage Center 7.1.4 or later.

• An SC40 storage system requires Storage Center 6.5.10 or later.

• An SC4020 storage system requires Storage Center 6.5.10 or later.

• An SCv2080 storage system requires Storage Center 6.6.4 or later.

NOTE: A single FluidFS cluster supports up to eight Storage Centers.

• For deployment instructions, see the Dell Storage Center Deployment Guide.

• For upgrade instructions, see the Dell Storage Center Software Update Guide.

□ Each Storage Center certicate contains the host name or management IP address used to add the Storage Center to Dell

Storage Manager. For instructions on regenerating an SSL certicate, see the Storage Center Administrator's Guide.

□ (Optional) Storage Centers can be reached by Copilot through Secure Console to assist with troubleshooting.

□ Dell Storage Manager 2016 R3 or later software is installed and congured.

Deployment Prerequisites