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Operating environment........................................................................................................................ 29

IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 physical environment requirements............................................ 30

IP address allocation and usage..........................................................................................................40

Planning for high availability......................................................................................................................40

Storage conguration planning................................................................................................................. 40

Planning your network and storage network............................................................................................ 40

Planning for 100 Gbps adapter............................................................................................................41

Planning for cables.................................................................................................................................... 41

Connections for IBM Elastic Storage System 3200............................................................................ 41

Planning for adapters........................................................................................................................... 43

Supported environment.............................................................................................................................44

Chapter4.Installing............................................................................................ 45

Installation overview................................................................................................................................. 45

Detailed installation steps (SSR task)....................................................................................................... 47

ESS system view...................................................................................................................................47

Rack details.......................................................................................................................................... 47

Installing the EMS server in a rack.......................................................................................................47

Unpacking IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 (IBM SSR task)............................................................47

Installing support rails for the IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 system (IBM SSR task)............... 48

Installing enclosures (IBM SSR task).................................................................................................. 53

Installing cable management assembly (IBM SSR task).................................................................... 56

Connecting the components (IBM SSR task).......................................................................................58

Connecting a mini USB cable to the SSR access port (IBM SSR task)................................................59

Install and connect management server 5105-22E...........................................................................61

Connect power cords to rack PDUs..................................................................................................... 61

ESS 5000 SCx/SLx network cabling.....................................................................................................61

Connect AC (wall) power to the rack PDUs..........................................................................................61

Power On switches, storage enclosures, and servers.........................................................................61

Check servers with essutils tool..................................................................................................... 61

Best practices for network conguration (Customer reference task)......................................................61

Prerequisites for installation completion by SSR......................................................................................62

Completing the ESS 3200 installation at the customer site (SSR task)...................................................64

Checking ESS management server and protocol nodes........................................................................... 76

Protocol node checks...........................................................................................................................81

Chapter5.Monitoring the system using LEDs........................................................83

System status LEDs................................................................................................................................... 83

Drive carrier assembly LEDs......................................................................................................................84

Fan module LEDs....................................................................................................................................... 85

Power module LEDs...................................................................................................................................86

Server canister operator panel LEDs.........................................................................................................87

Ethernet port LEDs............................................................................................................................... 88

Server canister status LEDs................................................................................................................. 89

Chapter6.Troubleshooting (SSR tasks)................................................................91

EMS issues................................................................................................................................................. 91

IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 issues..................................................................................................93

Issues logging in to IBM Elastic Storage System 3200 BMC.............................................................. 93

Network switch issues...............................................................................................................................93

SSR port login issues................................................................................................................................. 94

Assigning the management IP address.....................................................................................................94

Rebooting BMC.......................................................................................................................................... 96

Fixing console redirection..........................................................................................................................97

Deleting characters in essutils.................................................................................................................. 97

IP address setting issues...........................................................................................................................97

Issues in the console redirection enablement using ipmitool................................................................. 98

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