Lab Guide

Isilon OneFS 7.0 Initial Configuration

vLab Demo Guide
Lab Guide

EMC Solutions Group

Abstract
This Lab Guide serves as a guide for a demonstration of the
configuration of EMC Isilon storage systems.

November 2012
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Table of contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 4
Purpose ................................................................................................................................ 4
Scope .................................................................................................................................. 4
Terminology ......................................................................................................................... 4

Technology overview .................................................................................................................................. 5

EMC Isilon storage system ................................................................................................... 5

Lab overview............................................................................................................................................... 6
Lab environment ................................................................................................................. 6
Labs...................................................................................................................................... 6

Lab 1 – Configuration of an EMC Isilon storage cluster ............................................................................... 7

Overview ............................................................................................................................. 7
Lab ....................................................................................................................................... 7
Connect to the Windows 7 Client .................................................................................. 7
Connect to the consoles of the Isilon nodes .................................................................. 9
Start configuring the 1st node ...................................................................................... 10
Set the password to "a" for both root and admin ........................................................ 10
Do not enable SupportIQ ............................................................................................. 10
Configure a Cluster Name ............................................................................................ 11
Choose the Encoding ................................................................................................... 11
Configure Inter-Node Communications Networking ................................................... 11
Configure External Networking ..................................................................................... 13
Configure DNS Settings ................................................................................................. 15
Configure Time settings ................................................................................................. 16
Configure Cluster Join Mode ........................................................................................ 16
Commit the Configuration............................................................................................ 17
Add a 2nd node via the serial port .............................................................................. 17
Add the 3rd node to the cluster via the web administration interfaces ..................... 18

Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................ 21
Summary ............................................................................................................................ 21
Support .............................................................................................................................. 21
Customer ....................................................................................................................... 21
EMC personnel .............................................................................................................. 21
References......................................................................................................................... 21

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Introduction

Purpose This Lab Guide serves as a guide to a demonstration of the configuration

and management of EMC Isilon storage systems.

Scope This Lab Guide provides:

 A set of illustrated labs to demonstrate the EMC Isilon storage solution
 Configuring an EMC Isilon storage system

Terminology Table 1 explains EMC Isilon storage systems terminology.

Table 1. Terminology
Term Description
EMC Isilon storage system
Isilon Node The building blocks of an EMC Isilon storage system. A node is
made up of a server with CPU, memory, network connections
and hard drives.
IB Switch InfiniBand switch that is use for communication between the
nodes
IP Pool Range of IP address to be used as more nodes are added to the
cluster

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Technology overview

EMC Isilon storage OneFS® is EMC Isilon's seventh-generation operating system that provides
system the intelligence behind all Isilon® scale-out storage systems. It combines
the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume
manager and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single
intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster.

OneFS enables:

 Independent or linear scalability of performance and capacity to

over 85 Gigabytes per second of throughput and more than 15.5
petabytes of capacity in a single filesystem
 A single point of management for large and rapidly growing
repositories of data
 Mission-critical reliability and high availability with state-of-the-art
data protection
Unlike simple NAS namespace aggregation products, Isilon's OneFS
operating system is truly distributed and intelligently stripes data across all
nodes in a cluster to create a single, shared pool of storage. OneFS offers
unsurpassed mission critical reliability and industry- leading drive rebuild
times.

OneFS also delivers unique cluster-aware symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)

capabilities that enable the system to move tasks between processors for
extremely efficient workload balancing. In conjunction with OneFS„ ability
to stripe data across all nodes in a cluster, Isilon achieves the high
aggregate bandwidth and transactional performance required to power
next generation enterprise data centers.

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Lab overview

Lab environment The environment for this lab includes the following:
 4 x EMC Isilon virtual storage nodes
 1 x Windows 7 Client
o Username: vlab\user1
o Password: Password123
 1 x Windows 2008 R2 Server
o Username: Administrator
o Password: Password123
 1 x Linux client
o Username: root
o Password: a

Labs This lab includes the following labs:

 Lab 1: Configuration of initial EMC Isilon storage cluster
 Connect to serial ports
 Enter configuration information and prompted in the wizard
 Join 2 more nodes
 Demo growth of the cluster with the next lab guide

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Lab 1 – Configuration of an EMC Isilon storage cluster

Overview In this lab you will connect to the serial ports of physical nodes that are
currently unconfigured. This is the state it would be in if it was ordered and
shipped onsite. You will configure the 1st node in the cluster by stepping
through configuration wizard. Then you will add 2 more nodes to finish the
configuration of the EMC Isilon storage system to the minimum of 3 nodes
for the cluster..

Lab Connect to the Windows 7 Client

Click on the computer icon to the right of the Isilon LaunchPad VM

(Windows 7 Client)

Click on the resolution you want to use

It is recommend to use 1024x768 or higher resolution

Click the icon above the VLAB\user1 label

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In the password field, type Password123

Click the arrow to the right of the password field

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Connect to the consoles of the Isilon nodes

Click the Windows Icon and select the Isilon Consoles.bat icon

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Start configuring the 1st node

Click on any of the PuTTY windows. If you do not see any text, press the
Enter key. You will be given a 4 choices.

Select “Create a new cluster” by typing 1, and pressing the Enter key.

(Note: if you incorrectly enter anything you can always type back and
Enter to step back a step in the wizard)

Set the password to "a" for both root and admin

At the prompt “Please enter new password for root:”, type “a” (without
quotes), and press Enter

Enter “a” again when prompted (Password changed.)

At the prompt “Please enter new password for admin”, type “a” (without
quotes), and press Enter

Enter “a” again when prompted (Password changed.)

Do not enable SupportIQ

Would you like to enable SupportIQ? [yes] type no and press Enter

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For a Demo it's best to not step through answering all the SupportIQ
questions.

Configure a Cluster Name

Type in any name that makes sense and press Enter. The customer's name
or division is usually good.

Choose the Encoding

For most demos, simply press Enter to choose the default of UTF-8. Others
can be used, if needed.

Configure Inter-Node Communications Networking

Select “Configure Netmask” by typing 1 and pressing Enter

Type 255.255.255.0 and press Enter

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Select “Configure int-a IP ranges” by typing 3 and pressing Enter

Select “Add an IP Range” by typing 1 and pressing Enter

Use the following values for the Low and High Addresses:

Low IP address: Type 10.1.1.1 and press Enter

High IP address: Type 10.1.1.254 and press Enter

Having a range of 10.1.1.1 - 10.1.1.254 means that no matter how large the
cluster gets, no configuration changes will be needed to the backend
network

Select "Keep the current IP ranges:" by pressing Enter

Select "Keep the current configuration:" by pressing Enter

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Configure External Networking

Select "ext-1 - External interface" by typing 1 and pressing Enter

Select “Configure netmask” by typing 1 and pressing Enter

Type 255.255.255.0 and press Enter

Select “Configure external IP Ranges” by typing 3 and pressing Enter

Select “Add an IP Range” by typing 1 and pressing Enter

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Use the following values for the Low and High Addresses:

Low IP address: Type 192.168.1.101 and press Enter

High IP address: Type 192.168.1.109 and press Enter

Select “Keep current IP ranges:” by pressing Enter

Select “Keep the current configuration” by pressing Enter

When prompted to "Configure default gateway", type 192.168.1.1 and

press Enter

Select “Keep the current SmartConnect settings:" by pressing Enter

If a demo of SmartConnect is needed, it is easily configured later.

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Configure DNS Settings

Select “DNS Servers” by typing 1 and pressing Enter

When prompted to "Configure DNS", type 192.168.1.50 and press Enter

Select “DNS Search List” by typing 2 and pressing Enter

When prompted to set "Search domains", type vlab.local and press Enter

Select “Keep current DNS settings:” by pressing Enter

Select “Exit configuring external network” by pressing Enter

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Configure Time settings

Select “Configure time zone” by typing 1 and pressing Enter

When prompted to set "Configure cluster time zone", type 2 and press
Enter

Eastern Time Zone is used since the equipment is in that timezone

Select “Keep the current date and time:” by pressing Enter

The time on the cluster should be correct already

Configure Cluster Join Mode

Select “Keep the current join mode: Manual” by pressing Enter

Most installs use Manual, if Secure is selected, then nodes can only be
joined from the cluster, not from the unconfigured node.

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Commit the Configuration

When prompted to “Commit Changes?”, press Enter

At this point the terminal will disconnect because of the way it is virtualized.
It usually takes about two minutes for the cluster to commit this
configuration, however, with virtualization, this can be faster. Now is a
good time to answer any questions from the customer.

Add a 2nd node via the serial port

Select one of the other putty windows

Select "Join an existing cluster” by typing 2 and pressing Enter

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When this option is choosen, the node will look for any configured clusters
and list them.

Select "demo” cluster to join by typing 1 and pressing Enter

Add the 3rd node to the cluster via the web administration interfaces

Choose any of the web browsers installed. They all default to loading the
Administration Web Interface. Agreed to any SSL certificate warnings that
appear because the cluster is using a self-signed certificate.

Login to the web interface as "admin" with the password of "a".

Some of the browsers will automatically fill this in for you.

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The two nodes in the cluster should be displayed on the Cluster Overview
page.

You can ignore any alerts, as they are caused by OneFS being run as a
virtual machine.

The Virtual Hot Spare (VHS) will also be displayed as being large part of the
pie chart on the right because of this virtualization.

To add a node, click Cluster Management and select Hardware

Configuration

Click the "Add node" on one of the nodes to join it to the cluster

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To get the cluster status, click Dashboard

Once all three nodes are online and have an IP address, you can end this
lab.

That completes Lab 1: Configuration of an EMC Isilon storage cluster

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Conclusion

Summary During this demonstration, you completed the following labs:

 Built an EMC Isilon storage system from several unconfigured nodes

Support Customer
For any issues or feedback, or for further information about EMC products,
solutions, and demonstrations, contact your EMC representative.

EMC personnel
For any issues or feedback, please email GDP POD SUPPORT. Please
include as much detail as possible to ensure your email is addressed in a
timely manner.

References For additional information, consult these EMC documents:

That completes the demonstration of initial setup of an

EMC Isilon Storage System

Thank You

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