After the AC1 nodes are initialized and a management IP
address established, the customer uses the AC1 control enclosure management
GUI to input initial setup information.
Before you begin
The customer should consider their particular storage implementation
and the background information in the Configuring section
of this IBM® Knowledge Center.
The customer should also have on hand the following information:
- Licensed function information.
- The IP address of a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server, for automated
setting of date and time.
- The mail server IP address.
- Email addresses for local users.
Procedure
The customer uses the AC1 control
enclosure management GUI to complete the following high-level tasks:
- From the AC1 management GUI, the customer chooses and creates
a new password.
- Configure the date and time by using the NTP server.
- Review licensed functions.
Important: When prompted for the number
of licenses, enter "1" as the number of External Virtualization licenses,
even though the FlashSystem™ V840 does
not require one.
- Perform a configuration and final check of the cluster.
- In the Stretched System panel, select the No,
this system will be located on one site option.
- When you are prompted to include a companion node for redundancy,
select the redundant node to connect to.
- Discover the 16 volumes on the AE1 storage enclosure. 16
MDisks should be visible.
- To place the MDisks in appropriate storage pools, select Pools
-> MDisks The volumes that are created on the
storage enclosure AE1 should appear under Unassigned MDisks.
Note: If
the MDisks do not appear, run
Actions -> Detect MDisks.
In rare instances,
Detect MDisks might not
automatically appear in the
Actions drop-down
menu, because
Unassigned MDisks is selected.
In this case, the
Unassigned MDisks icon is
highlighted.
In this situation, to clear Unassigned MDisks,
hold down the Ctrl key and left-click the highlighted Unassigned
MDisks icon with the mouse. The highlight goes away after Unassigned
MDisks is no longer selected. Detect MDisks is
now available on the Actions drop-down menu,
and you can run Actions -> Detect MDisks.
- Create the host-facing volumes.
- Create the host servers and applications.
- Map or bind the host-facing volumes to the defined hosts.
To record the configuration of the
AC1 controller
nodes, the customer can use the following table:
Table 1. AC1 controller node storage configuration
planning table| Volume name |
Volume type |
Volume capacity |
Volume mode |
Associated I/O group |
Associated storage pool |
|---|
| Example_Vol_01 |
Managed |
500 GB |
Full |
IO_Grp0 |
Pool_0 |
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