Dell PowerVault 720N User manual

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This document provides information about the Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and
760N Systems CD that came with your system. The CD contains the Data
ONTAP version 5.3 operating system, diagnostics (version 1.6 or later), other
application programs such as SecureShare Access (version 3.0 or later),
SecureShare Migrator (version 2.0 or later), an installation wizard, and system
documentation that you need to set up and operate your Dell PowerVault 720N,
740N, and/or 760N storage systems (also referred to as filers). Dell installed the
operating system on your filer; however, you can use the CD to reinstall the oper-
ating system or to make the diagnostics diskette or bootable diskettes, if
necessary.
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You can use this CD with the Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N storage
systems with the following minimum hardware and software requirements.
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Client system (with a CD-ROM drive) that is attached to the network
Console device that is a VT-100compatible terminal or a client system
(directly connected to the filer serial port) running a terminal emulation
package, such as HyperTerminal
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Microsoft®Windows NT®Server or Windows NT Workstation, Microsoft
Windows®9x, or UNIX®operating system for the client installation
Web browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later or Netscape
Navigator 4.0 or later
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Dell uses the InstallShield Professional Edition that is certified as Year 2000
compliant.
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You can use this CD to install (or reinstall) the operating system, install the
SecureShare utilities, or to create the bootable system diskettes and the diag-
nostics diskette.
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To install (or reinstall) the operating system from the CD, refer to the following
appropriate information for your environment. You must be able to log in to the
filer as Administrator and have access to the filers system console.
From a Windows NT or Windows 9x client, refer to the following note and per-
form the following steps.
NOTE: CIFS must be licensed and configured on the filer before installing the
operating system from a Windows client.
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To license the filer for CIFS, type the following command:
filer>license cifs=
<license number>
where
<license number>
is the provided CIFS license. Then, to configure
CIFS, type the following:
filer> cifs setup
Refer to your Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N Users Guide for addi-
tional information.
To access the system files from the CD and install them to your filer, perform
the following steps:
1. As the Domain Administrator from a Windows client, right click My
Computer and click Map Network Drive.
2. In the Map Drive dialog box that appears, select an unused drive letter.
3. In the Path field of the dialog box, type a path similar to the following
example:
//
filer /c$
where
filer
is the name of the filer.
Do not change the Connect As field.
4. Insert the CD in the CD-ROM drive, and from the root directory of the CD,
double-click the setup.bat file to begin the installation process.
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5. After viewing the Welcome screen and the software license agreement
screen, specify a destination folder (this folder is the mapped, root-level
directory of the filer).
You must accept the license agreement to continue with this procedure.
The Browse option allows this mapping to be specified.
6. Select the appropriate setup installation method.
Ty p i c a l installs the Data ONTAP operating system and the local help files.
Compact installs Data ONTAP on the filer.
Custom allows you to select from the available components for
installation.
7. Once the files have been copied to the filer, type download at the filers
console to complete the installation.
You can now remove the CD from the CD-ROM drive. The filer can now
be rebooted; no boot diskettes are needed.
From a UNIX client running NFS Client version 2 or 3, you must install the files
from the CD to the filer by performing the following steps.
NOTE: An NFS license must be purchased and registered on the filer to
proceed.
1. Mount the filers root file system to a directory on the client. For example,
type:
mount
filer :/ / mnt
where
filer
is the name of the filer and
mnt
is the directory on the cli-
ent where you want to mount the filers root file system.
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2. Change the directory to a local temporary directory on the client system.
For example, type:
cd /tmp
3. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive and extract the files. For example,
type:
tar xvf /
CD-ROM_MNT_PT /ontap/5_3/alpha/sysfiles.tar
where
CD-ROM_MNT_PT
is the name of your CD mount point.
The tar command reports the names of the files that are extracted
(tar_image.Z and dell_filer_install).
4. Run the dell_filer_install script with an argument that specifies where to
install the files; this is the mount point for the filers root directory. You
can keep or delete the tar files.
To delete the tar files, type:
./dell_filer_install /
mnt
where
mnt
is the directory on the client where you mounted the filers
root file system.
To keep the tar files, type:
.dell_filer_install -k /
mnt
where
mnt
is the directory on the client where you mounted the filers
root file system.
The install script decompresses and extracts the files to the filer.
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5. From the client system, unmount the filers root file system by typing the
following commands:
cd /
umount /
mnt
where
mnt
is the directory on the client where you mounted the filers
root file system.
6. At the filer console, type download to complete the installation.
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You can create the system boot diskettes from the CD. Refer to the appropriate
procedure that follows depending on whether you are working from a UNIX
host or a Windows client to administer your filer.
To create the boot diskette from a Windows system, perform the following
steps:
1. Use the RaWrite utility to extract the system boot diskette software and
copy it to the diskette.
If you do not already have this utility on your system, it is on the CD in the
drive:\utils\Rawrite directory where drive is the CD-ROM drive.
2. Insert a blank, write-enabled diskette into the diskette drive. Label the dis-
kette System Boot Diskette 1 Data ONTAP x.x (where x.x refers to the
version number, such as 5.3).
3. Open the RaWrite folder and double-click the Rawrite.exe file.
The RaWrite utility starts and prompts you for an image source file.
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4. Type the name of the image file to be used (for example, boot1 for boot
diskette 1 or boot2 for boot diskette 2).
The utility prompts you for a target diskette drive.
5. Type the drive letter for the target diskette drive (for example, a:).
The status of the operation is displayed. When the operation is done, con-
tinue to the next step.
6. Remove the diskette from the drive and write-protect the diskette.
7. Repeat this procedure for the second system boot diskette and label it
System Boot Diskette 2 Data ONTAP x.x (where x.x refers to the ver-
sion number, such as 5.3).
To create the boot diskette from a UNIX client, perform the following steps:
Replace the variable filename with the name of the image to be /mnt/ontap/
5_3/alpha/boot1 and /mnt/ontap/5_3/alpha/boot2 in the CD where mnt is
the directory on the client where you mounted the CD-ROM drive.
If the diskette drive in your administration host is not named /dev/fd0, replace
/dev/fd0 with the name of your diskette drive by performing the following
steps:
1. Insert a blank, write-enabled diskette into the diskette drive on the admin-
istration host system. Label the diskette System Boot Diskette 1 Data
ONTAP x.x (where x.x refers to the version number, such as 5.3).
2. Copy the boot diskette 1 image to the diskette using the dd command.
For example, type:
dd if=filename of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
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3. Remove the diskette from the drive and write-protect the diskette.
4. Repeat this procedure for the second system boot diskette and label it to
be System Boot Diskette 2 Data ONTAP x.x (where x.x refers to the
version number, such as 5.3).
For information on using the bootable system diskettes, see your filers Users
Guide.
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You can create the diagnostics diskette from a Windows client system, an
MS-DOS®shell window, or from a UNIX client.
To create the diagnostics diskette from a Windows client system or an
MS-DOS shell window, perform the following steps:
1. Use the RaWrite utility to extract the diagnostics boot diskette software
and copy it to the diskette.
If you do not already have this utility on your system, it is on the CD in the
drive:\utils\Rawrite directory where drive is the CD-ROM drive.
2. Insert the CD in the Windows hosts CD-ROM drive.
3. Insert a blank, write-enabled diskette into the Windows client diskette
drive. Label the diskette System Diagnostics Diskette.
4. Open the RaWrite folder and double-click the Rawrite.exe file.
The RaWrite utility starts and prompts you for an image source file.
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5. Type the name of the diagnostic image file to be used (for example,
diag_1_6).
The utility prompts you for a target diskette drive.
6. Type the drive letter for the target diskette drive (for example, a:).
The status of the operation is displayed. When the operation is done, con-
tinue to the next step.
7. Remove the diskette from the drive and write-protect the diskette.
To create the diagnostics diskette from a UNIX client, perform the following steps:
1. Insert the CD in the UNIX client CD-ROM drive.
2. Mount the CD (some UNIX hosts do this automatically when the CD is
inserted into the drive; others require that you use the mount command).
3. Insert a blank, write-enabled diskette into the UNIX host diskette drive (in
this procedure, it is assumed that the CD is mounted at /cdrom). Label
the diskette System Diagnostics Diskette and include the filer name
and model name on this label.
4. Copy the boot diskette 1 image to the diskette using the dd command.
For example, type:
dd if=
path / filename of=/dev/fd0 bs=512
Replace
path / filename
with the diagnostics image path and filename
(such as cdrom/ontap/5_3_2/alpha/diag_1_7) and replace
/dev/fdo with the device name of your diskette drive if it is not
/dev/fd0.
5. Remove the diskette from the drive and write-protect the diskette.
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You can access the online system documentation from any browser in the
following ways.
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To access the online documentation from the CD, perform the following steps:
1. Ensure that the CD is in the CD-ROM drive and open your browser (Inter-
net Explorer 4.0 or later or Netscape Navigator 4.0 or later).
2. From the browser, click File> Open.
3. Type <
CD-ROM drive >?LQGH[KWP in the field and click OK.
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CD-ROM drive >represents your CD-ROM drive letter.
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To access the online documentation from the filer, perform the following steps:
1. Open your browser (Internet Explorer 4.0 or later or Netscape Navigator
4.0 or later).
2. From the browser, type the following command in the URL field:
http://<
filer name >/na_admin
where <
filer name >is the name of your filer.
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Go to http://www.dell.com, and then click the Support icon. From the Sup-
port site, you can select your system and navigate to the site that provides your
system documentation.
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When you select one of the online manuals, the default browser displays the
HTML file or the AdobeAcrobat Reader (included on the CD) launches, and
you can view or print the online manual.
NOTE: Opening large portable document format (PDF) files from a Web
browser can cause your system to freeze. Some PDF (.pdf) files on this CD
may be large; Dell recommends that you view and print .pdf files after saving
them to a hard-disk drive on any system running Adobe Acrobat Reader soft-
ware. You can install the Acrobat Reader software from the CD.
These software items (CD, documentation, packaging) are protected by law,
including, but not limited to, United States Copyright law and international
treaties.
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Corporation. All rights reserved.
©19981999 Network Appliance, Inc. Licensed to Dell Computer Corporation. All rights
reserved.
NOTE: U.S. Government Users-Restricted Rights. Use, Duplication, or Disclosure
restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with Dell Computer Corporation.
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Information in this document and contained on this CD is subject to change without
notice.
Trademarks used in this document: Dell, the DELL logo, Be Direct, and PowerVault are
trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation; Microsoft, Windows NT, Windows, and
MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation; UNIX is a registered trade-
mark of The Open Group in the United States and other countries; Adobe is a trademark of
Adobe Systems Incorporated, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Other trade-
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