Dell PowerVault NX1950 Installation and operation manual

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Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Systems
Solution Upgrade Guide
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Model EMU01
February 2008 Rev. A01

Contents 3
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Terms Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 Upgrading the Storage on Your
Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950
Integrated Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage
Enclosure to Expand the Storage on the
PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution . . . . . . . . . 7
Adding SATA II Support to Your
Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution . . . . . . . 7
3 Upgrading Your Dell PowerVault NX1950
Integrated and Gateway Solutions to
Enable iSCSI Active/Active Target . . . . . . 9
Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Uninstalling the Current Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4Contents
Creating a New Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Creating a New Target in a
Clustered Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Creating a Target in a
Non-Clustered Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Unsupported Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4 Upgrading Your
Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950
Gateway Solution With the
Latest Solution Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Introduction 5
Introduction
This document provides information about the various upgrade operations
you can perform on your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 storage solution.
The following upgrade options are discussed in this document:
• "Using the Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage Enclosure to Expand the
Storage on the PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution" on page 7.
• "Adding SATA II Support to Your Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated
Solution" on page 7.
• "Upgrading Your Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated and Gateway
Solutions to Enable iSCSI Active/Active Target" on page 9.
• "Upgrading Your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Gateway Solution With the
Latest Solution Stack" on page 17.
Terms Used in This Document
PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution/Integrated Solution—is the
configuration of PowerVault NX1950 storage system(s) with
Dell PowerVault MD3000 storage array.
PowerVault NX1950 Gateway Solution/Gateway Solution—is the
configuration of PowerVault NX1950 storage system(s) with Dell|EMC
storage array.
For more information, see the Installation Guide that shipped with your system.
NOTE: Ensure that your system is running Microsoft®Windows®Unified Data
Storage Server 2003 SP2 which is a pre-requisite for the Active/Active iSCSI Target
configuration.

6Introduction

Upgrading Your PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution 7
Upgrading the Storage on Your
Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950
Integrated Solution
NOTE: The Dell™PowerVault™NX1950 Integrated solution refers to the
configuration of PowerVault NX1950 system(s) and PowerVault MD3000 storage
array. For more information about this configuration, see the
Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems Installation Guide that shipped with your system.
Using the Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage
Enclosure to Expand the Storage on the
PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution
To expand the storage space on your PowerVault MD3000 storage array using
the PowerVault MD1000 storage enclosure, see the "Attaching MD1000
Expansion Enclosure" section in the Dell PowerVault MD3000 RAID
Enclosure Hardware Owner's Manual located on the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com.
Adding SATA II Support to Your
Dell PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution
To add SATA II support to your PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution, see
the "Adding SATA II Support Drives to Your Enclosure" section in the
Dell PowerVault MD3000 RAID Enclosure Hardware Owner's Manual located
on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.

8Upgrading Your PowerVault NX1950 Integrated Solution

Configuring 3.1 Target 9
Upgrading Your Dell PowerVault
NX1950 Integrated and Gateway
Solutions to Enable iSCSI
Active/Active Target
You can use the Microsoft®internet Small Computer System Interface
(iSCSI) Active/Active Target 3.1, to configure Active/Active Targets on your
Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 Integrated and Gateway solutions. To upgrade
the iSCSI Active/Active Target 3.1:
1
Perform the steps in "Planning" on page 10.
2 Perform the steps in "Uninstalling the Current Target" on page 10.
3 Perform the steps in "Creating a New Target" on page 12.
4 Creating a highly available iSCSI instance. For more information about
creating a highly available iSCSI instance, see the
Dell PowerVault NX1950
Systems Deployment Guide
located on the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com .
NOTE: The upgrade procedures in this section are applicable to systems running in
a cluster configured with iSCSI Targets and .vhd files in the current active node.
You can also perform these upgrade procedures to upgrade the iSCSI Target on a
stand-alone system.
NOTE: The term 3.0 Target refers to your current configuration of PowerVault NX1950
solution with iSCSI Active/Passive Target 3.0. The term 3.1 Target refers to the
PowerVault NX1950 configuration with Active/Active Target using iSCSI
Active/Active Target 3.1.

10 Configuring 3.1 Target
Planning
If you are retaining the Target names in the new configuration, it is
recommended to record the Target names, location of .vhd files, and the
Target association of the .vhd files as displayed in Table 3-1 below.
Uninstalling the Current Target
To uninstall the current 3.0 Target that is configured in a clustered
environment:
1
Close all applications.
2 Disconnect all Initiators from Target(s). Perform this step from the Initiator.
From the client systems, disconnect all Initiators from the Target(s).
3 Open a Cluadmin interface and delete the previously created
Generic Service from the cluster group.
4 Navigate to Add or Remove programs and uninstall the Microsoft iSCSI
Target from the passive node(s). Reboot each cluster node of the
PowerVault NX1950 storage solution.
Table 3-1. Target-Virtual Disk Matrix
Host 1 VHD File Name
Target 1 File 1:
File 2:
File 3:
Target 2
.
.
Target X File 1: