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- Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 1
Dell EMC PowerStore Planning Guide 1.x August 2020 Rev. A02 - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 2
use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2020 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 3
connection...20 Appendix B: Port Usage...22 Appliance network ports...22 Appliance network ports related to file...24 Network ports related to PowerStore X model appliances 26 Appendix C: Rack Space Planning Worksheets 29 Sample worksheet for rack space planning...29 Blank worksheet for rack space - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 4
to the PowerStore Documentation page at www.dell.com/ powerstoredocs. ● Troubleshooting For information about products, software updates, licensing, and service, go to www.dell.com/support and locate the appropriate product support page. ● Technical support For technical support and service requests - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 5
PowerStore is a versatile platform with a performance-centric design that delivers multi-dimensional scale, always on data reduction, and support analyze, and troubleshoot the environment. PowerStore is also block-only storage. ● PowerStore X model appliances (1000X, 3000X, 5000X, 7000X, and 9000X) - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 6
, see Discovering PowerStore Appliances on page 19 4. Follow the initial configuration prompts by specifying information that you collected in the PowerStore Initial Configuration Worksheet. The PowerStore Installation and Service Guide also includes installation instructions for later reference - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 7
to PowerStore Manager, it is strongly recommended that you enable the SupportAssist feature to accelerate problem diagnosis, perform troubleshooting, start provisioning PowerStore Manageruser accounts, storage resources, and policies. See the PowerStore Setting Up PowerStore Manager Guide for more - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 8
the appliance components: ● Leave 2U at the bottom of the rack for serviceability and power cable management. ● Stack base enclosure with no expansion enclosures from to plan and prepare the site where you are installing the PowerStore cluster. Dimensions and weight Base enclosure Table 1. 2U, 25 - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 9
consumption values for your specific environment, go to https:// powercalculator.emc.com/. Table 3. Power requirements Requirement 1000T/ 1000X 3000T/3000X 5000T 5000X 7000T/7000X Maximum input power 240 VAC ± 10%, single phase For 100-120V, a customer-supplied step-up transformer is required - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 10
Table 4. High ambient temperature shutdown Ambient temperature Hardware fault Above 45° C (113° F) None Above 50° C (122° F) None Any Three hottest drives have average temperature of 50° C (122° F) Any Two fans fault Consequence Non-critical warning generated . Critical alert generated. - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 11
Air quality requirements The products are designed to be consistent with the requirements of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Environmental Standard Handbook and the most current revision of Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments, - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 12
Packaged system condition Transportation shock Transportation random vibration Response measurement level 10 G's, 12ms duration ● 1.15 Grms ● 1 hour Frequency range 1-200 Hz 12 Site planning - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 13
, you can click Refresh on the PowerStore Licensing page to try obtaining the license automatically. Or, click Install License to manually install the license. NOTE: You do not need a separate PowerStore license when installing PowerStore operating environment software and firmware upgrades. VMware - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 14
the initial configuration process to configure a cluster. Download this utility from the Dell support site at www.dell.com/support. For more information about the discovery requirements and process, see Discovering PowerStore Appliances on page 19. 14 Licensing and Workstation Requirements - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 15
time to resolution. If you do not enable the SupportAssist feature, you may need to collect appliance information manually to assist Dell EMC Support with troubleshooting and resolving problems with your appliance. Also, the SupportAssist feature must be enabled on the appliance for data to be sent - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 16
the state of the connection between PowerStore and the Dell EMC backend Support services and the quality of service of the connection. The connection available by which to send appliance information to Dell EMC Support for remote troubleshooting are: ● Gateway Connect without remote access - For - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 17
information manually to assist support representatives with troubleshooting and resolving problems with the Support in the PowerStore Manager. These actions set up the appliance to use a secure connection between itself and Dell EMC Support. You can select one of the following remote service - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 18
REST API requests to configure SupportAssist settings. For more information about the REST API, refer to the PowerStore REST API Reference Guide. To determine the status of the SupportAssist feature, click Settings and under Support select SupportAssist in the PowerStore Manager. 18 SupportAssist - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 19
/central/solutions. ● Ensure that your workstation's Ethernet adapter is configured as follows: ○ Connected directly to the PowerStore service port on node A. ○ Configured with a static IP address on the service LAN network (128.221.1.0/24) with no gateway address defined (128.221.1.249; 255.255.255 - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 20
ensure that you exit and restart the Discovery Utility after temporarily disabling the firewall or antivirus services. Steps 1. From your workstation or virtual machine, launch the PowerStore Discovery Utility. 2. Select the unconfigured base enclosure for which you want to create a cluster. 3. Log - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 21
● Default password: Password123# Discovering PowerStore Appliances 21 - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 22
infrastructure will need to support these connections. NOTE: For additional information about ports, see Knowledge Base Article 542240, PowerStore: Customer Network Firewall the corresponding services that may be found on the appliance. Table 7. Appliance network ports Port 22 Service SSH client, - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 23
following access to iSCSI services: host access ● External host iSCSI access ● Bi-directional for ● External or PowerStore embedded replication ESXi host VNX2 systems If closed, iSCSI services will be unavailable. Used by Data mobility to support reasonable replication performance on low - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 24
21 FTP TCP 22 SFTP TCP 53 DNS TCP/UDP 88 Kerberos TCP/UDP 111 RPC bind (for TCP/UDP SDNAS namespaces; otherwise, host service) 123 NTP UDP 135 Microsoft RPC TCP 137 Microsoft Netbios UDP; TCP/UDP WINS 138 Microsoft Netbios UDP BROWSE 139 Microsoft CIFS TCP Access - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 25
(AH) traffic to be forwarded. If closed, IPsec connection between PowerStore appliances will be unavailable. Secure LDAP queries. If closed, secure LDAP functions for NFS. If closed, NAS statd services will be unavailable. Used to provide NFS lockd services. lockd is the NFS file-locking daemon. - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 26
following table outlines the collection of network ports and the corresponding services that may be found on PowerStore X model appliances. Table 9. Network ports related to PowerStore X model appliances Port Service Protocol Access Direction Description 22 SSH server TCP Inbound Allows - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 27
9. Network ports related to PowerStore X model appliances (continued) Port Service Protocol Access Direction Description 80, 9000 vSphere Web TCP Access Inbound Access for vSphere Update Manager Web Client plug-in for vSphere Web Client. 427 CIM Service TCP/UDP Bi-directional The - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 28
Table 9. Network ports related to PowerStore X model appliances (continued) Port Service Protocol Access Direction Description 9080 I/O filter TCP Outbound Used by the I/O Filters storage feature. 31031 vSphere TCP Replication, VMware Site Recovery Manager Outbound Used for - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 29
) 15 / 16 (2U) 13 / 14 (2U) 11 / 12 (2U) 09 / 10 (2U) 07 / 08 (2U) 05 / 06 (2U) Out-of-Band (OOB) Management Switch (PowerStore T Model Only) Ethernet Switch 2 Ethernet Switch 1 Base Enclosure 5 (BE5) Mgmt IP Address: xxx.xx.xxx Expansion Enclosure (BE5-EE1) Expansion Enclosure (BE5-EE2) Expansion - Dell PowerStore 7000T | EMC PowerStore Planning Guide - Page 30
Address: xxx.xx.xxx Appliance 1 (No expansion enclosure in the stack) Reserved for Serviceability Blank worksheet for rack space planning 40 (1U) 39 (1U) 38 (1U) 35 Switch (PowerStore T Model Only) Ethernet Switch 2 Ethernet Switch 1 Reserved for Serviceability 30 Rack Space Planning Worksheets
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Dell EMC PowerStore
Planning Guide
1.x
August 2020
Rev. A02