As a qualified IT operations engineer, you can't just play with new models of equipment. Because, in ordinary operation and maintenance work, you
You will encounter a wide variety of brands, models. There are new models of equipment, and there will also be old models. So, we want
Make "new friends" and never forget "old guys". Without the company of these old devices, there would be no continuous improvement of our technology today
Well.
Closer to home, today comes with an older IBM DS 3200 storage device.
- Storage is connected to the server
- Many of the older storage devices use SAS HBA interfaces, so the server also needs to install SAS
HBA cards can only be connected to storage.
- Install the SAS HBA card on the server and install the drivers.
- Connect servers to storage over SAS cables.
- Manage software installations
- IBM Storage Manager storage management software installation
Search for and download IBM Storage Manager version 10.7 and install it on your laptop
Select "Chinese Simplified", click OK, and if you want to strengthen your English practice, you can also choose English
Follow the prompts to do so
The following interface needs attention. After clicking Next, multiple windows will pop up, you don't need to bother, just click OK
Multiple windows pop up, after all click OK, you will jump to this step and click Install
After the installation is complete, no shortcut icon will be created on the desktop, you need to manually find the DS Storage Manager10 Client icon in the Start - program, and drag and drop it to the desktop
- Configuration method
- Locate the DS Storage Manager 10 Client icon on the desktop and double-click Run. Once the software opens, it will be automatic
Find the device.
- When the software automatically finds the device, double-click Manage Storage Subsystem to enter the management interface
3. Select the Configure menu to configure
- Click Create Host Group to create a group, enter a name you like, and click OK to create it
- Click the Configure Host Manual menu, enter a server name (e.g. Server A), and select the operating system
Select the system version installed on your server and click Next.
- In the pop-up interface, select the 2 servers on the left, add them to the window on the right, and click Next when finished
6. In Select existing host group, select the group name you just created (the name you like), Next
7. At this point, the server group is created
8. No need to create repeatedly, select NO
9. Start configuring RAID 5, you can also choose the Create Logical Drivers menu according to your own needs,
Click Next
10. Choose manual creation, if you feel troublesome, you can also let the system automatically create according to the number of hard disks
11. Select the RAID type, I choose RAID 5 here, after selecting, add the disk on the left that needs to be configured with RAID
Add to the window on the right, click Calculate Capacity, and then click Next
12. Create a LUN (similar to a partition or logical disk in the Windows system), the disk capacity can be based on
Own needs to come. The logical disk type below, typically, is a file system selected. When finished, click Next
13. Select the server group you just created, and then select Publish Now, click Finish.
- Disks are mapped to servers
- After restarting the server system, My Computer - Right Click Management - Disk Management
- Here you can see that the stored logical disk has been successfully mapped to the server. Click Next to initialize the disk.
3. After the completion of the creation, it can be partitioned normally.
This tutorial also applies to storage devices such as IBM DS 3500, DS 4300, DS 5020, etc.