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Deployment of a converged infrastructure with fcoe

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Dell Networking S5000: Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE

During initial configuration of the Compellent Storage Center, we created a disk pool labeled "Pool_1"

consisting of seven 300 GB drives. The total disk space is 1.64 TB; this can be seen in the screen shot

of the Storage Center System Manager GUI as shown below in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Storage Center System Manager GUI displays disk pool "Pool_1" with 1.64 TB free space

Since we have two fabrics, fabric A and fabric B, we create two fault domains. Domain 1 is already

created by default and all the FC ports are currently in domain 1. To create another domain click

'Storage Management' on the top left of the webpage and then select 'System->Setup->Configure

Local Ports'. Next, click the 'Edit Fault Domains' button at the bottom right of the dialog box. On the

next dialog box click the 'Create Fault Domain' button on the lower right of the dialog box. In the

'Name' field type a name for the new domain. In this case, we used "Domain 2". Make sure 'FC' is

selected in the 'Type' field and click 'Continue'. Figure 6 below shows that we have already created the

second domain.

Figure 6: Creating an additional Fault Domain on Compellent Storage Array

Now we can navigate back to the 'Configure Local Ports' dialog and select the appropriate Domain to

put each port in. Each fabric should be in its own Domain; we put all ports going to fabric A in Domain

1 and all ports going to fabric B in Domain 2 as shown below.

Deployment of a Converged Infrastructure with FCoE

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