Installation worksheet

This worksheet is intended for customers as part of the TDA process to outline the items required to be implemented by the SSR during setup.

Customer task

Customer fills out the desired IP addresses.

SSR task

The SSR uses this information to properly set the desired IP addresses on each canister and the EMS (if applicable).

Prerequisite (for SSR): You must be connected to the SSR access port of the target canister (top or bottom). See the IBM Storage Scale System 3000 installation (SSR task) for steps required to check the hardware and set the desired IP addresses outlined in this worksheet by the customer.

EMS Ethernet (1Gb) port mapping

Note: C10-T2 listed in the figure below would be used as the Container interface.

The SSR connects to C10-T4 (bottom port) on the 1Gb card to access the server and run the essutils tool.

Figure 6 shows the EMS server P2P cabling.

SAS HBA Port Schema Figure 7 shows the SAS HBA port schema.

SSR / Customer:

• Ensure that the management switch is in the rack and powered on.
• Ensure that there is one Ethernet cable from the management switch (if there are VLANs, connect from the xCAT/management VLAN) to port 1 (management port) on each canister as shown in Figure 3.
• If an EMS node was received with ESS 3000, connect two Ethernet cables from the management switch (if there are VLANs, connect from the xCAT/management VLAN) to port C10-T1 (top port) and to port C10-T2 (second from top).

SSR: General guidance

• For each ESS 3000 canister in the flow (see Installing), connect your laptop point-to-point to the Service Port as shown in the Figure 2. You need to use this port to access each canister, perform hardware checks, and set the management IP address.
• For the EMS, connect your laptop point-to-point to C10-T4 and use the instructions in the IBM Storage Scale System 3000 installation (SSR task) to log in, perform the hardware checks, and set the management IP address.

Reference:

• Canister 1 (top) SSR service port has a default IP address of 10.0.0.102
• Canister 2 (bottom) SSR service port has a default IP address of 10.0.0.101
• SSR user ID is ‘essserv1’
• SSR default password is the ESS 3000 serial number
  • Add ‘B’ for top canister
  • Add ‘A’ for bottom canister
• Other than the SSR access port, there are no default IP addresses set on any node
• All management interfaces should be connected to the same VLAN switch
• Default physical POWER8 EMS ports
  • C10-T1 = Management Interface (will be set by the SSR)
    • Logical port enP3p9s0f0
  • C10-T4 = FSP interface. Default IP of 10.0.0.1. SSR needs to connect laptop to this port when performing the EMS tasks
    • Logical port enP3p9s0f3
• Default physical POWER9 EMS ports
  • C11-T1 = Management Interface (will be set by the SSR)
    • Logical port enP1p8s0f0
  • C11-T2 = FSP interface. Set by SSR
    • Logical port enP1p8s0f1
  
• Default physical ESS 3000 ports (per canister) (see Figure 2)
  • Port 1 – Management port (will be set by the SSR)
    • Logical port enp29s0f0
  • Port with a gear symbol (see Figure 2) – Service/Technician port. The SSR will connect a laptop to this port when performing the ESS 3000 tasks. You need to move the cable when working on a different canister (two per ESS 3000 unit)
    • Logical port enp1s0

Note: The worksheet has default IPs filled out in case they were not provided by the customer during the TDA process. Before setting any default IPs have the customer confirm that they are not currently in use by the associated networks.

Customers must fill in the following values so that the SSR is able perform the required networking tasks. If there are more than one building blocks are being installed, you will need to add the corresponding rows.