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• To specify the network folder, see Specify the ASM/ME Backup Document Directory. • To specify the login account, see Change the Logon Account for ASM/ME Services (EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent). Specify the ASM/ME Backup Document Directory To set or modify the ASM/ME Backup Document directory: 1. In ASM/ME, click Settings in the navigation area. 2. Click the General Settings tab. 3. Perform the following steps: • Specify a directory for backup documents. • Specify the UNC path for the shared volume instead of the default location. You specify the network share name by using UNC format such as \\server-name\shared-resource-pathname or \ \ClustersystemFS\H$\VSS Requestor\. 4. Click Save. Change the Login Account for ASM/ME Services (EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent) 1. In ASM/ME, click Settings in the Navigation area. 2. Click the General Settings tab. If you are managing multiple hosts and want to make the same changes to multiple hosts, multiselect the hosts in the middle panel. The changes will affect all selected hosts. 3. Select the option to run the ASM/ME services from the local system user account, or another specified user account. If you want to specify another user, you must provide the domain, user name, and password credentials. See the Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition User's Guide for more information. Join a Computer into a Failover Cluster The prerequisites for joining a computer running Host Integration Tools into a failover cluster are as follows: • Use an account that is a domain user account with local administrative access. Consider creating a named account such as ASMadmin to use for ASM/ME operations on the cluster. You can use this account to log on to required services. If any cluster node is running Exchange and SQL Server (using PS Series iSCSI volumes), you must also make sure that your user account has the appropriate security group access for those applications. • Change the login account for the EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent services. If you are using Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) or a Database Availability Group (DAG) under Exchange 2010 SP3 RU 12, Exchange 2013 CU 11, or Exchange 2016, or SQL Server 2012 SP3, SQL Server 2014 SP1, or SQL Server 2016, you do not need to change the login account. See Change the login Account for ASM/ME Services (EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent) for instruction on changing the login account. • If the host being added is not running the same (or any) version of the Host Integration Tools as the other cluster nodes, then after you add the host, run ASM/ME and select the Add Hosts Wizard to install ASM/ME and add the new node to the HIT Group. See the Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition User's Guide for more information. About Silent Installations A silent installation does not require you to monitor and respond to typical installation prompts. You create a template of your installation selections as you perform a silent installation. You can then clone this installation template to other computers, if the other computers have: • Very similar or identical hardware configurations • The same operating system and service pack level • The same system configuration for all optionally installed features that are affected by the installation, including (but not limited to) firewall, iSCSI initiator version and configuration, and MPIO Cloning an installation works best when you are setting up a large number of identically configured and newly installed computers. The following considerations apply when performing a silent installation: Installation 19

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To specify the network folder, see
Specify the ASM/ME Backup Document Directory
.
•
To specify the login account, see
Change the Logon Account for ASM/ME Services (EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent)
.
Specify the ASM/ME Backup Document Directory
To set or modify the ASM/ME Backup Document directory:
1.
In ASM/ME, click
Settings
in the navigation area.
2.
Click the
General Settings
tab.
3.
Perform the following steps:
•
Specify a directory for backup documents.
•
Specify the UNC path for the shared volume instead of the default location.
You specify the network share name by using UNC format such as
\\server-name\shared-resource-pathname
or
\
\ClustersystemFS\H$\VSS Requestor\
.
4.
Click
Save
.
Change the Login Account for ASM/ME Services
(EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent)
1.
In ASM/ME, click
Settings
in the Navigation area.
2.
Click the
General Settings
tab.
If you are managing multiple hosts and want to make the same changes to multiple hosts, multiselect the hosts in the middle panel.
The changes will affect all selected hosts.
3.
Select the option to run the ASM/ME services from the local system user account, or another specified user account. If you want to
specify another user, you must provide the domain, user name, and password credentials.
See the
Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition User’s Guide
for more information.
Join a Computer into a Failover Cluster
The prerequisites for joining a computer running Host Integration Tools into a failover cluster are as follows:
•
Use an account that is a domain user account with local administrative access. Consider creating a named account such as ASMadmin
to use for ASM/ME operations on the cluster. You can use this account to log on to required services. If any cluster node is running
Exchange and SQL Server (using PS Series iSCSI volumes), you must also make sure that your user account has the appropriate
security group access for those applications.
•
Change the login account for the EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent services. If you are using Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR)
or a Database Availability Group (DAG) under Exchange 2010 SP3 RU 12, Exchange 2013 CU 11, or Exchange 2016, or SQL Server 2012
SP3, SQL Server 2014 SP1, or SQL Server 2016, you do not need to change the login account.
See
Change the login Account for ASM/ME Services (EQLReqService and EqlASMAgent)
for instruction on changing the login
account.
•
If the host being added is not running the same (or any) version of the Host Integration Tools as the other cluster nodes, then after
you add the host, run ASM/ME and select the
Add Hosts Wizard
to install ASM/ME and add the new node to the HIT Group. See the
Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition User’s Guide
for more information.
About Silent Installations
A silent installation does not require you to monitor and respond to typical installation prompts. You create a template of your installation
selections as you perform a silent installation. You can then clone this installation template to other computers, if the other computers
have:
•
Very similar or identical hardware configurations
•
The same operating system and service pack level
•
The same system configuration for all optionally installed features that are affected by the installation, including (but not limited to)
firewall, iSCSI initiator version and configuration, and MPIO
Cloning an installation works best when you are setting up a large number of identically configured and newly installed computers. The
following considerations apply when performing a silent installation:
Installation
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