Open systems installations
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Planning and Installation
Open systems installations
Note: “Mainframe systems installations” on page 306 contains mainframe
installation requirements.
This section contains hardware and host checklists to be used when
connecting a Symmetrix DMX-3 to open systems hosts. For the most
current information on the Symmetrix system and specific host
integration, contact your local EMC Sales Representative, or refer to
the EMC Powerlink website.
Symmetrix
hardware checklist
Make sure you discuss with and obtain the following site profile
information from the Customer Engineer or Systems Engineer. This
information is necessary for each Symmetrix system you are
installing (Table 55 on page 301).
Table 55 Symmetrix checklist for UNIX or PC server hosts
Symmetrix model ❏
Total number of physical drives to be configured on the Symmetrix system ❏
Physical drive type (size) ❏
Total amount of Symmetrix global memory ❏
Number of Fibre Channel directors
a
❏
Number of GigE Remote channel directors
a
❏
Number of GigE IPv4/v6 (IPsec capable) channel directors ❏
Number of iSCSI channel directors
a
❏
Host channel director models used ❏
Number of channels used per director
b
❏
Remote director (SRDF) type (RA-2, RA-4) and quantity ❏
a. If host mirroring is performed, configure an even number of channel directors.
b. From a performance perspective, it is better to spread channels across as many channel directors as possible.
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