MD3800I dual control + MD1200 disk expansion cabinet configuration

1. Startup and shutdown sequence

Power on: expansion cabinet-controller

Shutdown: Controller-Expansion Cabinet

2. Network port diagram on the back of controller

As shown in the figure above: 0 IN 0, 0 IN 1, 1 IN 0, 1 IN 1 are data ports, connected to the storage switch, 0 IN 0 and 1 IN 0 ports are redundant, assigned the same IP segment, 0 IN 1 and 1 IN 1 ports are redundant, assigned another IP segment; management port: 192.168.129.101/102

3. Download MDSM storage management software from Dell official website. It is recommended to install it on the management server, as shown below:

4. Select Autodiscover Storage and right-click Manage Storage.

5. Create a disk group

6. Create a virtual disk

Storage Configuration Temporarily here, configure VMware Esxi 6.0 Host Network Configuration

7. Esxi and Storage Switch NIC Configuration

Method 1:

Method II

The difference between the two did not find the corresponding answer, waiting for the master to answer

8. Esxi adds ISCSI network card

9. Configure ISCSI network card

10. Storage Add Host

11. ESXI host adds storage

--To be updated