EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 User Manual

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EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 Product Guide
Planning and Installation
Host checklist
Make sure you discuss with and provide the following host
information to the Customer Engineer or Systems Engineer. This
information is necessary for each host you are attaching to the
Symmetrix system. Make a copy of this form, Table 56 on page 302,
for each host you will attach to the Symmetrix system. When you are
done, you should have a checklist for each host.
Table 56 UNIX or PC server host checklist (1 of 2)
Host configuration requirements Host 1 Host 2
Host (CPU) vendor and model number. ❏❏
Host controller type and model number. ❏❏
Memory capacity of host. ❏❏
O/S revision level of host. ❏❏
I/O rate per second expected per host. ❏❏
Type of host (Fibre Channel, iSCSI) channel adapter used on host, type, and
model number.
❏❏
Is this a clustered environment? Which one? ❏❏
Will devices be shared? Which ones? ❏❏
Total number of host (Fibre Channel, iSCSI) channel connections per host
and to which ports will they attach?
❏❏
Specify if any narrow channels used. ❏❏
Number of logical devices needed per host (Fibre Channel, iSCSI) channel
path.
❏❏
Size of volumes required to be visible to host.
a
❏❏
Total customer-usable data storage required. ❏❏
Will host-level mirroring be used, which volumes? ❏❏
Does the customer have the recommended number of spares? (EMC order
entry)
❏❏
Will Symmetrix Mirrored (RAID 1) be used, which volumes? ❏❏
Will Symmetrix RAID 5 (3+1) or RAID 5 (7+1) be used, which volumes? (You
cannot mix RAID 5 (3+1) and RAID 5 (7+1) volumes on the same Symmetrix
system.)
❏❏
Will SRDF be used, which volumes? ❏❏
Data storage utilization per host.
b
❏❏
Average transfer size of data. ❏❏

EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 Specifications

General

Brand	EMC
Model	Symmetrix DMX-3
Category	Storage
Language	English