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EMC Installation Roadmap for CX-Series and FC-Series Storage Systems
Windows Installation Checklists
5 Server
Install Host
Agent or Server
Utility
❑
Install the Navisphere Host Agent or Navisphere Server Utility and the
Navisphere CLI.
CX-Series Server
Software for Windows
installation guide
❑
For a CX500i storage system
Reboot server either after the Host Agent installation is complete or when
the Server Utility dialog prompts you to reboot.
If you do not reboot before you run the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator to
configure iSCSI NIC initiators, the initiators will not log in to the storage
system.
6 Server
Install admsnap
and/or admhost
❑
If the server will be a SnapView production or secondary host, install the
admsnap utility.
CX-Series Server
Software for Windows
installation guide
❑
If the server has LUNs that will participate in a SAN Copy session, install
the admhost utility.
7 Fibre Channel
Switches
Install
For a Fibre Channel SAN
❑
Install Fibre Channel switches, if not already installed.
Rails, cabinet, and
switch documentation
❑
Connect a cable from each host HBA port to a switch port.
❑
Checkpoint - Verify the HBA connection to the switch by checking the
LED(s) for the switch port connected to the HBA port.
For a 1-Gbit switch - LED is green, which indicates that the HBA is logged
in to the switch port.
For a 2-Gbit switch - One of the following:
• The left LED is green and the right LED is off, which indicates that a
1-Gbit SP port is logged in to the switch port.
• For a DS-xxB2 switch, both LEDs are green, which indicates that a
2-Gbit HBA port is logged in to the switch port.
• For a DS-xxM2 switch, the left LED is blue and the right LED is off, which
indicates that a 2-Gbit HBA port is logged in to the switch port.
8 Storage System
Install
❑
Install the storage system in the cabinet, if not already installed. Rails and cabinet
documentation
9 Storage System
Cable
management
ports
❑
Cable the storage-system management port on each SP to the network
from which you will manage the storage system.
Storage-system setup
guide
Task
With Access Logix Reference Document