Dell PowerStore 3200T EMC PowerStore Installation and Service Guide for PowerS - Page 184
Add appliances to the cluster, Prerequisites, Settings, Network IPs, Add Appliance, About this task
View all Dell PowerStore 3200T manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals |
Page 184 highlights
F Add appliances to the cluster Learn how to add appliances to the cluster. Topics: • Add appliances to the cluster Add appliances to the cluster Prerequisites ● You can only have up to four appliances in a cluster. ● Ensure that the cluster is functional and in a healthy state. If any other appliance in the cluster is not operational, you may not be able to add an appliance. ● Ensure that the appliances you are adding are in an unconfigured, original factory settings state. ● Obtain the Service Tag of the appliances you want to add. ● Ensure that you have sufficient number of unused IP addresses for each appliance. For each appliance you want to add, have at least four IP addresses for the management network and three IP addresses for the storage network. Work with your network administrator to provision and obtain more IP addresses, if necessary. To review, or add more IP addresses, select the Settings icon, and then select Network IPs in the Networking section. ● You cannot have PowerStore T model and PowerStore X model appliances in the same cluster. NOTE: The cluster and appliance you are adding must be running the same PowerStore OS version before the appliance can be added to the cluster. Clusters on PowerStore OS 3.0.x and later automatically detect if there is a mismatch between OS versions and provide the option to synchronize during the Add Appliance wizard. For clusters on PowerStore OS 2.x and earlier where the appliance is running a later version of the PowerStore OS than the cluster, upgrade the cluster prior to adding the new appliance. For clusters on 2.x and earlier where the cluster is running a later version of the PowerStore OS than the appliance, the appliance should be installed in the same rack and use the same switches as the existing cluster, and configured into its own separate cluster. Then, upgrade the OS of the separate cluster. Log in to Support and refer to KB article 000133192 (PowerStore Manager prevents "Add an appliance to an existing cluster" operation from succeeding if code version of appliance to be added does not match...) for more information. About this task To add appliances to the cluster: Steps 1. Under Hardware, click Add in the Appliances tab. 2. Follow the prompts in the Add Appliance wizard to select and add the appliances to your cluster. NOTE: When this process is running, do not run commands, such as adding external hosts or changing CHAP configurations, which can change the state of the cluster. NOTE: Any operations started while the Add Appliance process is running will not run until the Add Appliance operation is complete. 3. If the PowerStore OS version of the cluster does not match the PowerStore OS of the appliance being added, you will be prompted to synchronize software versions before adding the appliance. Click Synchronize to initiate the version synchronization. When the synchronization is complete, you will be returned to the Add Appliance wizard. Proceed with the rest of the steps of the wizard. 184 Add appliances to the cluster