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Dell FluidFS 6.0 FS8600 Appliance CLI Reference Guide

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Adding a NAS Appliance to a FluidFS Cluster Using the CLI

Use this procedure to add a NAS appliance to a FluidFS cluster using the CLI. The recommended way to add a NAS appliance is to use the FluidFS NAS Manager WebUI. This procedure should be performed only by Dell Technical Support Services.
  1. Log on to the CLI of the existing FluidFS cluster (do not log on to the new NAS appliance).
  2. Determine the network ID of the existing client subnets for use in Step 3. 
    environment network management access subnets list
  3. Configure the client VIPs (PrivateIPs) and an IP address for each NAS controller that you are adding (PublicIPs). Dell recommends adding at least one client VIP per NAS controller. 
    environment network management access subnets edit 
                                    <NetworkID> <netmask> -PrivateIPs 
                                    <x.x.x.x,x.x.x.x> PublicIPs 
                                    <x.x.x.x,x.x.x.x>
    For example: 
    environment network management access subnets edit 192.10.0.0 255.255.0.0 -PrivateIPs 192.10.18.38,192.10.18.39,192.10.18.40,192.10.18.41
                                    -PublicIPs 192.10.18.42,192.10.18.43
  4. Repeat Step 3 for additional client subnets. For example: 
    environment network management access subnets edit 10.10.76.0 255.255.252.0 -PrivateIPs 10.10.78.121,10.10.78.122,10.10.78.123,10.10.78.124
                                    -PublicIPs 10.10.78.125,10.10.78.126
  5. (iSCSI only) Configure additional IP addresses for the iSCSI SAN subnets. 
    hardware fabrics iscsi edit 
                                    <name> -ControllersIPs 
                                    <x.x.x.x>
    For example: 
    hardware fabrics iscsi edit SANb -ControllersIPs 192.11.18.14,192.11.18.15,192.11.18.16,192.11.18.17
                                    hardware fabrics iscsi edit SAN -ControllersIps 192.11.18.10,192.11.18.11,192.11.18.12,192.11.18.13
  6. Add the NAS appliance. 
    hardware nas-appliances add-appliance 
                                    <ApplianceServiceTag>
    For example: 
    hardware nas-appliances add-appliance L846185
  7. For iSCSI, the IQNs will have FluidFS NasController X in the name.
  8. In the output of the following command, make sure Luns Accessibility shows Optimal from all NAS controllers to all NAS volumes. 
    hardware storage-subsystem view
  9. Perform an incremental format and join the new NAS appliance to the FluidFS cluster. 
    hardware nas-appliances join-appliance
                                     <ApplianceID>
    For example: 
    hardware nas-appliances join-appliance 2
    
                                 
                              
    10. 
                              
                              
  10. 
                                 After the previous command completes, confirm
                                    that the NAS appliance 
                                    Status is 
                                    Optimal in the output of the following command.
                                  
                                 
    hardware nas-appliances status-list
    
                                 
                              
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