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Dell™ PowerVault™

NX1950 Systems

Deployment Guide

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Contents 3

Contents

Microsoft Windows Unified Data Storage

Server 2003 Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

PowerVault NX1950 Management Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Microsoft iSCSI Software Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Dell Storage Management Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Dell OpenManage Server Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Modular Disk Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

EMC Navisphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Operating System Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Indexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Single Instance Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Windows SharePoint Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Restoring Your Operating System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Installing Your Operating System Using

the Server Management CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Restoring the Storage Array Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Installing Additional Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Installing and Configuring the MUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Applying the MUI Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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4Contents

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Deployment Guide 5

This document provides information about the configuration procedures

on your system and a general overview of the Microsoft®Windows®Unified

Data Storage Server 2003 operating system. For more information, see the

operating system documentation located on the Dell™ documentation

website at www.dell.com/ostechsheets.

The following topics are discussed in this document:

• Microsoft Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 console

• Dell storage management tools

• Operating system features

• Restoring your operating system

NOTE: Throughout this document Dell PowerVault NX1950 storage system

refers to the individual storage unit and PowerVault NX1950 storage solution

refers to the configuration of the storage unit along with the storage arrays.

Microsoft Windows Unified Data Storage

Server 2003 Console

This section provides comprehensive information on the features that are

available to you as part of the storage solution.

The Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 console opens in the

PowerVault™ NX1950 Management Console and allows administrators to

perform a majority of storage management tasks such as provisioning and

administering volumes, shared folders, and managing iSCSI Software

Targets. Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 integrates the

following snap-ins:

• PowerVault NX1950 Management console

• Microsoft iSCSI Software Target

• Indexing service

• Local users and groups

• Event viewer

• Performance logs and alerts

NOTE: Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 console is also referred to

as the PowerVault NX1950 storage system console.

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The Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 console opens

automatically when you close the Initial Configuration Tasks window. If

you have chosen the option not to display the Initial Configuration Tasks

window, the Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 console opens

automatically when you log on to Windows Unified Data Storage Server

2003 as an administrator. If the console does not automatically open, or

you close it, a user with administrator privileges can open it manually.

To open the Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 console, click

Start→ All Programs→Administrative Tools→Windows Unified Data

Storage Server 2003. In the Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003

console, the PowerVault NX1950 Management console node present in

the left of the navigation tree becomes the default focus.

PowerVault NX1950 Management Console

You can use PowerVault NX1950 Management console to perform the

following tasks:

• Provisioning and managing volumes

• Creating and managing SMB/CIFS shared folders and NFS exports

• Defragmenting volumes

• Setting quota limits

• Creating storage utilization reports

• Replicating data to and from the file server

• Managing storage area networks (SANs)

PowerVault NX1950 Management console eliminates the need for an

administrator to use the share folder management, storage manager for

SANs, and disk management snap-ins in most cases by providing a single

console that combines file sharing management and disk management.

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Deployment Guide 7

PowerVault NX1950 Management console in Windows Unified Data

Storage Server 2003 provides access to the following additional

administrative features:

• Editing the server configuration using the

Initial Configuration

Tasks

user interface

• Editing the cluster configuration using the cluster administrator tools

• Editing the network file system (NFS) configuration using the

Microsoft Services for NFS Configuration Guide

and

Identity Mapping

Setup

wizard, which can also be accessed from the

Initial

Configuration Tasks

user interface

PowerVault NX1950 Management console includes the following snap-ins:

• Share and storage management

• Distributed file system (DFS)

• Microsoft Services for NFS

Share and Storage Management

The share and storage management snap-in allows you to easily set up and

manage shared folders and storage. Share and storage management

provides the following features:

• PowerVault NX1950 Management Console-based management of

shared folders and storage

•

Provision Storage

wizard for creating and configuring storage, creating

a logical unit number (LUN), and formatting a volume

•

Provision a Shared Folder

wizard for creating and configuring shared

folders that can be accessed either using the server message block (SMB)

or NFS protocol

These features enable you to complete most of the administrative tasks

required to create and manage shared folders and volumes without using

the shared folder management, storage manager for SANs, or disk

management snap-ins. This also includes configuring quotas to restrict

the quantity of data, configuring file screening to prevent certain file types

or only allowing certain file types defined by the administrator, and

enabling indexing.

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Share and storage management includes the following tabs for managing

shared folders and volumes:

• Volumes — This tab displays all volumes available to the server and

information about each volume. You can track and manage volumes

using this tab.

• Shares — This tab displays all shared folders created using share and

storage management, and information about each shared folder.

You can track and manage shared folders using this tab.

Share and storage management includes support for configuring single

instance storage (SIS). SIS recovers disk space by reducing the amount of

redundant data stored on a volume and identifies identical files and stores

only a single copy of the file in the SIS common store. SIS replaces the

files with pointers to the file in the SIS common store.

Share and storage management also incorporates other snap-ins that can

be used to manage specific functionality and provide advanced

management capabilities. These snap-ins include:

• File server resource manager, which includes quota management, file

screening management, and storage reports management

• Storage manager for SANs

• Disk defragmenter

• Disk management

File Server Resource Manager

File server resource manager is an PowerVault NX1950 Management

Console snap-in that provides a suite of tools for administrators to

understand, control, and manage the quantity and type of data stored on

their servers. The administrator can also perform advanced tasks such as

generating comprehensive reports on storage usage.

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Storage Manager for SANs

Storage manager for SANs is a PowerVault NX1950 Management Console

snap-in that helps you perform the following tasks:

• Creating and managing LUNs on disk-drive subsystems accessible by

your system.

• Managing connections between LUNs and the servers in your

storage network.

Disk Defragmenter

In addition to analyzing local volumes, disk defragmenter is used to locate

and consolidate fragmented files and folders.

Disk Management

Disk management is used to manage disks and the volumes or partitions

that they contain. Using disk Management, it is possible to initialize disks,

create volumes, and format volumes.

DFS Management

The distributed file system (DFS) solution in Windows Unified Data

Storage Server 2003 provides simplified, fault-tolerant access to files and

wide area network (WAN) friendly replication. DFS consists of two

technologies:

• DFS Namespaces — Previously known as DFS, DFS namespaces

allows administrators to group shared folders located on different

servers and present them to users as a virtual tree of folders known as

a namespace. A namespace provides benefits such as increased

availability of data, load sharing, and simplified data migration.

• DFS Replication — The successor to file replication service (FRS),

DFS replication is a state-based, multimaster replication engine that

supports scheduling and bandwidth throttling. DFS replication uses a

compression algorithm known as remote differential compression

(RDC). RDC is a protocol that updates files over a limited-bandwidth

network. RDC detects insertions, removals, rearrangement of data in

files enabling DFS replication to replicate only the changes when the

files are updated.

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Microsoft Services for NFS

Microsoft Services for NFS is a component of Windows Unified Data

Storage Server 2003 that provides a file sharing solution for enterprise

systems running both Windows and UNIX®operating systems. Using

Microsoft Services for NFS, you can configure storage services that enable

users to store and access files on the Windows Unified Data Storage

Server 2003 based storage server. You can also transfer files between the

storage server and systems running the UNIX operating system using the

NFS protocol.

In Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, the initial configuration of

Microsoft Services for NFS can be completed using the Microsoft Services

for NFS Configuration Guide, that includes instructions on how to use

the Identity Mapping Setup wizard. After completing the initial

configuration of Microsoft Services for NFS, you can use the Microsoft

Services for NFS console for maintenance and administration.

For more information about Microsoft Services for NFS, see the Microsoft

website located at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=67431.

Microsoft iSCSI Software Target

The Microsoft iSCSI Software Target snap-in available in Windows

Unified Data Storage Server 2003 allows you to connect a storage server

to remote iSCSI targets and also acts as an iSCSI target. Microsoft iSCSI

Software Target is used for creating and managing iSCSI targets and disks

for storage, and implementing backup and recovery support using

snapshots.

Virtual Disk Storage

The disks that are created using iSCSI software target are virtual disks,

which are files in the virtual hard disk (VHD) format. Virtual disks provide

the following features:

• Flexible and effective storage

• Dynamically extendable to provide extra capacity on demand

• Efficient storage utilization

• Minimizes the time required to create new disks

• Reduces the down time typically required to install new disks

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