Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerStore Importing External Storage to PowerStore Guide
- Contents
- Additional Resources
- Introduction
- Import requirements and restrictions
- Host plugin installation (non-disruptive import only)
- Installing the host plugin for import on a Windows-based host
- Installing the host plugin for import on a Linux-based host
- Installing the Dell EqualLogic MEM kit on an ESXi-based host
- Install the Dell EqualLogic MEM kit on an ESXi-based host using the vSphere CLI
- Install the Dell EqualLogic MEM kit on an ESXi-based host using setup.pl script on VMA
- Install the Dell EqualLogic MEM kit on an ESXi-based host using VUM
- Install the Dell EqualLogic MEM kit during an ESXi-based host upgrade
- Uninstalling the host plugin for import
- Import workflows
- Configuring and managing import
- Import-CLI (Linux)
- Additional tasks related to import for Linux-based hosts
- ImportKit-CLI (Windows)
- How to run the ImportKit CLI commands
- List supported arrays
- Host plugin log information
- Import kit version
- Restart import kit host plugin service
- Import volumes information
- Get Web server port information
- Install import kit certificate
- Re-generate the import kit certificate
- Set Web server port information
- Set host plugin logging debug log level
- Import-CLI (VMware)
- CLI for EQL MPIO
- Fault handling by PowerStore import
Configuring and managing import
This chapter contains the following information:
Topics:
• Configure a non-disruptive import
• Refresh hosts and volumes in a non-disruptive import
• Manage non-disruptive import sessions
• Configure an agentless import
• Manage agentless import sessions
Configure a non-disruptive import
Prerequisites
Ensure the following conditions exist on the PowerStore cluster before running import:
● The global storage IP address for the PowerStore cluster is configured.
● The PowerStore cluster and its nodes are in a healthy state.
Ensure that the following connections exist:
● For either a Dell EMC VNX2 or Dell EMC Unity Series source system, a Fibre Channel (FC) or iSCSI connection between
the source system and each associated host system, and a matching FC or iSCSI connection between each associated host
system and the PowerStore cluster.
NOTE: These connections to each host system should be of the same type, either all FC or all iSCSI.
● For either a Dell Compellent Storage Center (SC) or Dell EqualLogic Peer Storage (PS) Series source system, an iSCSI
connection between the source system and each associated host system, and a matching iSCSI connection between each
associated host system and the PowerStore cluster.
● For all source systems, only an iSCSI connection is supported between the source system and the PowerStore cluster.
Ensure that the applicable host multipath input/output (MPIO) software and host plugin are installed on each host that
accesses the storage to be imported. See Non-disruptive import of external storage to PowerStore overview on page 7.
It is recommended that the same NTP server is used on the source system, which hosts the source storage resource, and the
destination PowerStore cluster. This configuration should provide the proper time synchronization between the source system
and the destination PowerStore cluster.
Determine the following for the source system:
● The type of source system for the import
● The management cluster IP address, which is one of the following:
○ For the Dell EqualLogic PS Series, it is the group management IP address, if the management network is configured.
Otherwise, it is the group IP address.
○ For the Dell Compellent SC Series and Dell EMC Unity Series, it is the management IP address of the system.
○ For Dell EMC VNX2 Series, it is the IP address of either SPA or SPB, however, the IP address of SPA is recommended.
● The iSCSI IP address of the source system, which is one of the following:
○ For Dell EqualLogic PS Series, it is the group IP address.
○ For Dell Compellent SC Series, it is the IP address of the fault domain.
○ For Dell EMC VNX2 and Dell EMC Unity Series, it is one of the IP addresses of the iSCSI front-end ports.
● The administrative username and password credentials to access the source system
● The session CHAP mode
● The names of the volumes or consistency groups, or both
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