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Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Administrator’s Guide

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Configure and provision a new storage system

The PowerVault Manager offers two ways for you to set up and provision your storage system:

  • Guided setup and provisioning
  • Manual setup and provisioning

The guided setup and provisioning process provides options for you to quickly set up your system by guiding you through the configuration and provisioning process. It provides you with limited, yet optimal storage configuration options to quickly enable I/O operations.

Manual setup and provisioning process provides more provisioning options and greater flexibility, but with the added complexity of selecting all settings and provisioning options. These include creating disk groups and pools, creating volumes, and mapping volumes to initiators.

NOTE:If you choose to use guided setup, you can still manually provision the system after the system is set up.
To access guided setup for the first time:
  1. Configure your web browser to access the PowerVault Manager as described in Web browser requirements and setup.
  2. Temporarily set the management host NIC to a 10.0.0.x address or to the same IPv6 subnet to enable communication with the storage system.
  3. In a supported web browser:
    • For an IPv4 network, type https://10.0.0.2 to access controller module A.
    • For an IPv6 network, type https://fd6e:23ce:fed3:19d1::1 to access controller module A.
  4. If the storage system is running G275 firmware, sign in to the PowerVault Manager using the user name manage and password !manage.

    For more information about signing in, see Signing in and signing out. For more information about using these options, see Guided setup.

    If the storage system is running G280 firmware:

    1. Click Get Started.
    2. Read the Commercial Terms of Sale and End User License Agreement (EULA), and click Accept.
    3. Specify a new user name and password for the system, and click Apply and Continue.

      The user name and password requirements are described in User options.

The Welcome panel that is displayed provides options to set up and provision your system. For more information about using these options, see Guided setup.
NOTE:If you are unable to use the 10.0.0.x network to configure the system, see the Setting network port IP addresses using the CLI port and serial cable appendix in the Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Deployment Guide.
To manually set up and provision a storage system for the first time:
  1. Configure your web browser to access the PowerVault Manager as described in Web browser requirements and setup.
  2. Temporarily set the management host NIC to a 10.0.0.x address or to the same IPv6 subnet to enable communication with the storage system.
  3. In a supported web browser:
    • Type https://10.0.0.2 to access controller module A on an IPv4 network.
    • Type https://fd6e:23ce:fed3:19d1::1 to access controller module A on an IPv6 network.
  4. If the storage system is running G275 firmware, sign in to the PowerVault Manager using the user name manage and password !manage.

    For more information about signing in, see Signing in and signing out. For more information about using these options, see Guided setup.

    If the storage system is running G280 firmware:

    1. Click Get Started.
    2. Read the Commercial Terms of Sale and End User License Agreement (EULA), and click Accept.
    3. Specify a new user name and password for the system, and click Apply and Continue.

      The user name and password requirements are described in User options.

  5. Be sure that the controller modules and expansion modules have the latest firmware as described in Updating firmware.
  6. Configure your system settings as described in Systems Settings panel.
  7. Create disk groups and pools, and add dedicated spares to linear disk groups, as described in Adding a disk group and Dedicated spares.
  8. Create volumes and map them to initiators, as described in Create a volume.
  9. From hosts, verify volume mappings by mounting the volumes and performing read/write tests to the volumes.
  10. Optionally, for replication of virtual volumes and snapshots, create peer connections and replication sets as described in Creating a peer connection, Creating a replication set from the Replications topic, and Creating a replication set from the Volumes topic.
NOTE:If you are unable to use the 10.0.0.x network to configure the system, see the Setting network port IP addresses using the CLI port and serial cable appendix in the Dell PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Deployment Guide.

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