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CHAPTER 4
Setting Up Host Servers
This chapter helps you set up and configure host servers attached to the
PowerVault 530F storage area network (SAN) appliance and includes the following
procedures:
• Installing the host bus adapter (HBA) on Windows NT and Windows 2000
• Installing the QLogic Fibre Channel Configuration Utility on a host
• Installing QLDirect
• Setting the execution throttle value
• Setting failover paths
• Registering host servers
• Configuring the QLogic 2200 or 2200F HBA to boot through the PowerVault 530F
(optional feature)
NOTE: Before setting up host servers, complete the initial setup procedures detailed
in Chapter 2, “Getting Started,” and Chapter 3, “Setting Up the PowerVault 650F and
660F Storage Subsystems.”
Installing the HBA on Windows NT and
Windows 2000
When configuring host servers, you must first install the HBA drivers. The drivers for
the Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems are located on the Dell
PowerVault Fibre Channel Utilities CD or the Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Update CD.
Installing the QLogic Fibre Channel
Configuration Utility on a Host
For the SAN to function properly when connected to a PowerVault 530F, you must
install and run the QLogic Fibre Channel Configuration Utility. This utility is also neces-
sary to configure host failover. However, to obtain the host failover functionality, you
must also install QLDirect (see “Installing QLDirect” found later in this chapter).
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Page 1 - Setting Up Host Servers

support.dell.com Setting Up Host Servers 4-1CHAPTER 4Setting Up Host ServersThis chapter helps you set up and configure host servers attached to the P

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4-10 System Administrator’s Guidee. If no icon displays, click Refresh.f. If an icon for the host still does not display, verify the connections of th

Page 3 - Installing QLDirect

support.dell.com Setting Up Host Servers 4-11• During a new installation or a reinstallation of the host operating system, LUNs must be mapped only on

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Page 5 - Setting Failover Paths

4-2 System Administrator’s GuideInstall the QLogic Fibre Channel Configuration Utility on host servers from the Dell PowerVault Fibre Channel Utilitie

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support.dell.com Setting Up Host Servers 4-313. To add a shortcut to your desktop, click Ye s .14. You are prompted to reboot the system. While it is

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4-4 System Administrator’s GuideIf all servers carry the same I/O load, calculate the execution throttle value by dividing 480 by the number of server

Page 8 - (Optional Feature)

support.dell.com Setting Up Host Servers 4-56. Press the up- or down-arrow key to highlight the execution throttle value and press <Enter>. The

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4-6 System Administrator’s GuideFigure 4-1. Primary Paths and Failover PathsIn Figure 4-1, Server 1 has two adapters, A and B. Server 2 has two adapt

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support.dell.com Setting Up Host Servers 4-7Setting Up Primary Failover Paths on a Host ServerNOTE: When using the QLogic Fibre Channel Configuration

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4-8 System Administrator’s GuideRegistering Host ServersWhen the dellsanreg.exe — a run-once utility — is run on a host, it sends the PowerVault 530F

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support.dell.com Setting Up Host Servers 4-9visible LUNs 0 and assign it to each host you wish to use for remote storage booting. • During the boot pr

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