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For the most up-to-date regulator document for your product line, go to Dell EMC Online Support (https://support.emc.com). 2 Dell EMC Host Connectivity Guide for Windows CONTENTS Preface........................................................................................................................................ 9 Chapter 1 General Procedures and Information General Windows information.................................................................... 14 Terminology........................................................................................ 14 Utilities and functions ......................................................................... 14 Windows environment............................................................................... 15 Hardware connectivity........................................................................ 15 Booting Windows from external storage.................................................... 16 Boot-from-SAN .................................................................................. 16 Benefits of boot-from-SAN ................................................................ 16 Boot-from-SAN configuration restrictions.......................................... 16 Risks of booting from the storage array.............................................. 17 How to determine I/O latency and load on the boot LUN ................... 17 Configuring Unity and VNX series systems for boot from SAN........... 18 SAN Booting a Windows Host to a Unity array .......................................... 19 Prerequisites ...................................................................................... 19 Configure host connections................................................................ 19 Create a LUN and configure to the host .................................................... 23 Microsoft Windows Failover Clustering ..................................................... 28 Chapter 2 iSCSI Attach Environments Introduction.............................................................................................. 30 Terminology....................................................................................... 30 Software............................................................................................ 30 Boot device support .......................................................................... 30 Windows 2008 R2 iSCSI Initiator manual procedure.................................. 31 Windows 2008 R2 iSCSI Initiator cleanup.......................................... 35 Using MS iSNS server software with iSCSI configurations........................ 38 iSCSI Boot with the Intel PRO/1000 family of adapters............................. 39 Preparing your storage array for boot................................................. 39 Post installation information ............................................................... 41 Notes on Microsoft iSCSI Initiator............................................................. 44 iSCSI failover behavior with the Microsoft iSCSI initiator................... 44 Microsoft Cluster Server ................................................................... 60 Boot................................................................................................... 60 NIC teaming........................................................................................ 61 Using the Initiator with PowerPath..................................................... 61 Commonly seen issues....................................................................... 65 Chapter 3 Virtual Provisioning Virtual Provisioning on Symmetrix............................................................. 70 Terminology........................................................................................ 71 Management tools .............................................................................. 72 Thin device ......................................................................................... 72 Implementation considerations.................................................................. 74 Over-subscribed thin pools................................................................. 74 Dell EMC Host Connectivity Guide for Windows 3 Contents Thin-hostile environments .................................................................. 75 Pre-provisioning with thin devices in a thin hostile environment......... 75 Host boot/root/swap/dump devices positioned on Symmetrix VP (tdev) devices ............................................................. 76 Cluster configurations ........................................................................ 76 Operating system characteristics .............................................................. 78 Chapter 4 Windows Host Connectivity with Dell EMC VPLEX Dell EMC VPLEX ...................................................................................... 80 Prerequisites ............................................................................................. 81 Host connectivity...................................................................................... 82 Configuring Fibre Channel HBAs ............................................................... 83 Setting queue depth and execution throttle for QLogic ...................... 83 Setting queue depth and queue target for Emulex.............................. 88 Windows Failover Clustering with VPLEX.................................................. 91 Setting up quorum on a Windows 2012/2012 R2 Failover Cluster for VPLEX Metro or Geo clusters .............................................................. 92 Configuring quorum on Windows 2008/2008 R2 Failover Cluster for VPLEX Metro or Geo clusters ............................................................. 96 VPLEX Metro or Geo cluster configuration........................................ 96 Prerequisites ...................................................................................... 97 Setting up quorum on a Windows 2008/2008R2 Failover Cluster for VPLEX Metro or Geo clusters ....................................................... 97 Chapter 5 Dell EMC PowerPath for Windows PowerPath and PowerPath iSCSI............................................................ 104 PowerPath for Windows.......................................................................... 105 PowerPath and MSCS...................................................................... 105 Integrating PowerPath into an existing MSCS cluster ...................... 105 PowerPath verification and problem determination ................................. 108 Problem determination ...................................................................... 110 Making changes to your environment ................................................ 113 PowerPath messages ........................................................................ 113 Chapter 6 Microsoft Native MPIO and Hyper-V Native MPIO with Windows Server 2008/Windows Server 2008 R2........ 116 Support for Native MPIO in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 .................................................................. 116 Configuring Native MPIO for Windows 2008 Server Core and Windows 2008 R2 Server Core.......................................................... 116 Native MPIO with Windows Server 2012 ................................................. 120 Support for Native MPIO in Windows Server 2012 ........................... 120 Configuring Native MPIO for Windows Server 2012 ......................... 120 Known issues .......................................................................................... 125 Hyper-V................................................................................................... 126 Appendix A Persistent Binding Understanding persistent binding ........................................................... 128 Methods of persistent binding .......................................................... 130 4 Dell EMC Host Connectivity Guide for Windows Contents Appendix B Dell EMC Solutions Enabler Dell EMC Solutions Enabler .................................................................... 132 References ....................................................................................... 132 Appendix C Veritas Volume Management Software ......................................... 133 Dell EMC Host Connectivity Guide for Windows 5 Contents 6 Dell EMC Host Connectivity Guide for Windows FIGURES FIGURES 1 Four paths ...............................................................................................................