Dell STORAGE AREA NETWORK 651F User's Manual
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SAN Configurations
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C H A P T E R 2
SAN Configurations
This chapter introduces the components that you can include in your Storage Area
Network (SAN). It also explains the different operating system environments and
configurations that you can use in your SAN.
SAN Components
The following sections describe the various components in a SAN.
Servers
In a SAN, servers provide the attached client systems with access to high throughput,
reliable storage systems. Servers also manage the storage systems and attached
SAN appliances.
When you are installing, configuring, managing, or maintaining a server in a SAN, you
must consider both the installed operating system, software, and storage that is
being used on or by that server.
Server Software
The server software that is required on each server varies by the type of storage sys-
tem it is using and by whether it is using a SAN Appliance.
Servers Accessing Storage Systems Directly
Ensure that each host server that is only accessing storage systems directly and
not
through a PowerVault 530F SAN appliance, such as the server in Figure 2-1, has the
following software installed:
• Dell OpenManage Data Managed Node Data Agent (for 650F and 651F only)
• Dell OpenManage Storage Consolidation (for 650F, 651F and 660F)
• Dell OpenManage Application Transparent Failover (ATF) (for 650F and 651F
only)
• QLogic QLdirect (for 660F only)
• Dell OpenManage Array Manager (for 650F, 651F and 660F)
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