User manual HP STORAGEWORKS B2000 NAS NAS B2000 - QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] StorageWorks by Compaq NAS B2000 Quick Start Guide Part Number 292283-001 (First Edition) May 2002 Product Version: Version 1. 0 This quick start guide provides information about how to deploy the StorageWorksTM NAS B2000 by Compaq. © 2002 Compaq Information Technologies Group, L. P. Compaq, the Compaq logo, and StorageWorks are trademarks of Compaq Information Technologies Group, L. P. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. Compaq shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. [. . . ] This section is intended as an overview of the process, not a detailed list of step-by-step instructions. Step-by-step procedures are documented in the administration guide. Some of the steps are driven by wizards within the WebUI. In either type of setup, it is important to read all of the supplied documentation before starting. Relevant documents include: · · · StorageWorks by Compaq NAS B2000 Administration Guide StorageWorks by Compaq NAS B2000 Quick Reference and Rack Installation Guide StorageWorks by Compaq NAS B2000 Release Notes The following describes how to configure the NAS B2000. Configure the NAS device using Chapters 2 and 3 from this guide. Install NIC teaming software and create fault tolerant or load-balanced network ports. Follow the recommendations found in this guide and in the administration guide. Place the NAS device into an Active Directory or Windows NT 4. 0 domain for ease of manageability. With the system online, create the arrays and logical volumes (LUNs) using Compaq ACU one at a time so that they can be identified easily in Device Manager and assigned to a Virtual Replicator (VR) pool. See the procedure in the storage management section of the administration guide. Create Virtual Replicator pools and virtual disks from those pools and format the virtual disks. Enable protocols such as NFS sharing, NCP, and/or AppleTalk. See the administration guide for this procedure in detail. Create shares corresponding to the protocols mentioned in the previous steps. Read the remaining sections of the administration guide. 1-6 NAS B2000 Quick Start Guide Product Overview Storage Management Overview This section provides an overview of the components that make up the NAS storage structure. A complete discussion of the components and their relationships is available in the administration guide. CAUTION: This section on storage management and VR is required reading material for the NAS administrator. This section develops the concepts and requirements that serve as the basis for successfully using a StorageWorks NAS device. Failure to read this section and the appropriate sections on storage management in the administration guide may lead to data loss or file corruption. Storage Management Elements Figure 1-3 provides an illustration of the various storage components of the NAS B2000. Storage is broken up into four major divisions: · · · · Storage elements Virtual storage elements File system elements File sharing elements Each of these elements is composed of the previous level's elements. NAS B2000 Quick Start Guide 1-7 Product Overview Physical Drives Storage Elements RAID Arrays LUNS LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3 LUN 4 LUN 5 Pools Pool 1 Pool 2 Virtual Storage Elements Virtual Disks vdisk 1 Snapshots vdisk 2 snap vd2 vdisk 3 snap vd3 snap vd1 D: Folders N: E: O: F: F:\ Eng P: File System Elements D:\ Acct E:\ Mktg Shares and Subfolders B2000\Acct B2000\Mktg B2000\Eng File Sharing Elements Figure 1-3: Storage management process 1-8 NAS B2000 Quick Start Guide Product Overview Storage Elements The lowest level of storage management on the NAS B2000 occurs at the physical drive level. Physical drives are grouped into RAID arrays for fault tolerance and better performance. The end user should configure RAID arrays using ACU. [. . . ] You may refresh the device list manually by selecting the Refresh button. NAS B2000 Quick Start Guide 3-5 Configuration Setup Figure 3-3: RapidLaunch device discovery screen 9. Select the StorageWorks NAS B2000 device from the device list. This launches the WebUI configuration application (Rapid Startup) on the target StorageWorks NAS device, as shown in Figure 3-4. 3-6 NAS B2000 Quick Start Guide Configuration Setup Figure 3-4: Rapid Startup wizard screen 10. Using the information from Table 2-1, fill in the screens that follow. [. . . ]