Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Create a Physical Server

Create a physical server object to represent a physical server in your environment.

1. Make sure the server HBAs have connectivity to the Storage Center HBAs.
   • iSCSI – Configure the iSCSI initiator on the server to use the Storage Center HBAs as the target.
   • Fibre Channel – Configure Fibre Channel zoning to allow the server HBAs and Storage Center HBAs to communicate.
   • SAS – Directly connect the controller to a server using SAS ports configured as front-end connections.
2. If the Dell Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
3. Click the Storage tab.
4. Select Servers in the Storage tab navigation pane.
5. In the right pane, click Create Server.
   The Create Server dialog box appears.

   

6. Configure the server attributes.
   The server attributes are described in the online help.
   1. Enter a name for the server in the Name field.
   2. To add the server to a server folder, click Change, select a folder, and click OK.
   3. Select the operating system for the server from the Operating System drop-down menu.
   4. To generate Storage Center alerts when connectivity is lost between the Storage Center and the server, select Alert On Lost Connectivity.
   5. To generate Storage Center alerts when the Storage Center only has partial connection to the server, select Alert On Partial Connectivity.
   6. Select or define one or more HBAs for the server.
      • If one or more server HBAs are visible to the Storage Center, select the checkboxes of the HBAs to add from the Host Bus Adapters table.
      • If a server HBA is not visible to the Storage Center, click Manually Add HBA to define it manually. For SAS front-end connections, use the SAS device name as the World Wide Name (WWN) to manually add the HBA.

      NOTE:IP addresses can be added for HBAs that will be installed on the server in the future. When the HBA that uses that IP address is installed, it will be configured and ready to use.
7. Click OK.