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Dell Storage Center SCv2000 and SCv2020 Storage System Deployment Guide

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Cabling the Management Port and Replication Port for iSCSI Replication

If replication is licensed and the Flex Port license is installed, the management (MGMT) port and replication (REPL) port can be used to replicate data to another Storage Center.

About this task

Connect the management port and replication port on each storage controller to an Ethernet switch through which the Storage Center can perform replication.
  • NOTE: .

    The Flex Port feature allows both Storage Center system management traffic and iSCSI traffic to use the same physical network ports. However, for environments where the Storage Center system management ports are mixed with network traffic from other devices, separate the iSCSI traffic from management traffic using VLANs.

Steps

  1. Connect Flex Port Domain 1 (shown in orange) to the iSCSI network.
    1. Connect Ethernet switch 1 to the corporate/management network (shown in green).
    2. Connect the management port on storage controller 1 to Ethernet switch 1.
    3. Connect the management port on storage controller 2 to Ethernet switch 1.
  2. Connect iSCSI Embedded Domain 2 (shown in blue) to the iSCSI network.
    1. Connect the replication port on storage controller 1 to Ethernet switch 2.
    2. Connect the replication port on storage controller 2 to Ethernet switch 2.
    Figure 1. Management and Replication Ports Connected to an iSCSI Network Cabling the Ethernet management (MGMT) and replication (REPL) ports to an Ethernet switch perform iSCSI replication.
    1. Corporate/management network
    2. Ethernet switch 1 (iSCSI network)
    3. Ethernet switch 2 (iSCSI network)
    4. Storage system
    5. Storage controller 1
    6. Storage controller 2
  3. To configure the fault domains and ports, click the Configure Embedded iSCSI Ports link on the Configuration Complete page of the Discover and Configure Uninitialized SCv2000 Series Storage Centers wizard.
  4. To configure replication, see the Dell Enterprise Manager Administrator’s Guide .

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