Installing and Configuring HCP Anywhere

and Hitachi Data Ingestor

HDI Cluster Installation

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Module Objectives

 Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

• Connect the network of the Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) cluster
• Configure the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G series to provide
LDEVs to nodes
• Install the HDI software in the HDI nodes

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HDI Cluster : Network Connection

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 HDI Cluster – Network Connections

 HDI cluster networks

Maintenance Client DNS/DC
LAN Front-end LAN
(Router)

HCP SMTP
pm0 ethN pm0 ethN
server
HDI Node 1 hb0 hb0 HDI Node 2 NTP
pm1 BMC mng0 pm1 BMC mng0

Management
Maintenance
switch (optional)
PC
Management switch

Maintenance Management LAN HFSM SNMP

PC station
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HDI Cluster – Network Connections

Customer Front-End LAN

Engineer HDI Router/Firewall
Clients ADS/DNS/
Maintenance PC NTP

xgbe4 xgbe5

fc0002 fc0003 BMC connection is Mandatory

pm0 hb0 mng0 pm1 BMC

Management LAN Administrator

Heartbeats HFSM
FC
VSP G200

xgbe4 xgbe5

fc0002 fc0003

pm0 hb0 mng0 pm1 BMC

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Importance of mng0 Connection

 mng0 has to be in a switch with enough redundancy because if it loses

link for 60 sec, the resource group of this node will failover to the other
node

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BMC – Connection and IPs

The IP address of the BMC must belongs to a

The IP address of the BMC must
different IP network than the IP address of mng0.
belongs to the same IP Network
pm1 is a special port used only for BMC
as the IP address of mng0
switch-less configuration in HDI cluster.
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HDI Cluster and HCP – Connections Diagram
(Brief)

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HDI Cluster and HCP – Connections Diagram
(Detail)

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 Storage

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 Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning (HDP)

LDEV DP-VOL (10 GB) => Active LDEV DP-VOL => File System 1 – Node 1
File Migration (AFM)

LDEV DP-VOL (10 GB) => Active LDEV DP-VOL => File System 2 – Node 2
File Migration (AFM)

… 70 Cluster
… VSP Gx00

GB Management LU

Fast Disk (FMD/SSD) SAS 15K SAS 10K

HDP Pool 0 HDP Pool 1 HDP Pool 2

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 Hitachi Dynamic Tiering (HDT)

Tiering Policy = Level 1 Tiering Policy = ALL (Level 0)

LDEV DP-VOL (10 GB) => Active LDEV DP-VOL => File System 1 – Node 1
File Migration (AFM)

LDEV DP-VOL (10 GB) => Active LDEV DP-VOL => File System 2 – Node 2
File Migration (AFM)

… 70 Cluster
… VSP Gx00

GB Management LU

Fast Disk (FMD/SSD) SAS 15K SAS 10K

TIER 1 TIER2 TIER3

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 Self-Protection

 Automatic system configuration backup (cluster model only)

• HDI cluster system configuration information consists of 3 system volumes:
 Node OS configuration information x2 ( Local in each node )
 Cluster management information x1 (VSP Gx00)

 It automatically backs up this information to each volume so that the system administrator
can recover from failure of the system volumes

OS Disk OS Disk
Node0 Node1
Backup Backup Backup

Cluster
Management LU VSP Gx00
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 HDI Cluster

RAID-1 for OS RAID-1 for OS

300 300 300 300
GB GB GB GB

VSP Gx00

70 Cluster
GB Management LU
LDEV DP-VOL (10 GB) => Active
File Migration (AFM) LDEV DP-VOL => File System 1 – Node 1

LDEV DP-VOL (10 GB) => Active LDEV DP-VOL => File System 2 – Node 2
File Migration (AFM)
… …
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 HDI Cluster

Node 1 Node 2

G200
1A 3A G400 2A 4A

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 Storage Navigator (SN2) – VSP Gx00

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 HDI Software Installation

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 BMC Login

 Type the BMC IP address into a

browser and login with default
credentials: admin/hosyu95 or
admin/admin

 The default admin account can

be used to install HDI software
remotely

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 Launch Console

 From the remote control menu,

select the console redirection option

 Click on the Java console button to

open the remote console Java
applet

 Make sure you have Java installed

before you attempt to launch the
BMC console

 In Java Control Panel > Security

add the BMC IP in the Exception
Site List
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 Virtual Media Options

 Virtual Media Wizard

allows you to define
various virtual media
devices and the
images they should
use

 For HDI
installation .ISO image
can be mounted here

 Boot the server

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 Server RAID Controller

 The HDI software installation

will automatically create the
RAID 1 configuration with the
2x rear hard disks and it will
create 2x virtual drives (VDs)
in the RAID controller of the
server

 Press CTRL + R to run

MegaRAID configuration utility

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 HBA Configuration

If nodes are directly connected

with the VSP Gx00 select Loop
First or FC-AL

Press ALT + E or CTL + E

to enter HBA Emulex BIOS
Configuration Utility

If nodes are connected through

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 Software Installation – Initial Install

Initial install

For the
maintenance port
(pm0) introduce
an IP in the range
10.0.0.51 to
10.0.0.254
For example:
- Node 1:
10.0.0.51
- Node 2
10.0.0.52
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 Software Installation – Initial Install

Press ENTER for not

assigning an IPv6 to pm0
(maintenance port)

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 Set Management Port (mng0) IP Configuration

Set IP for:
- Management port (mng0)
- BMC
If mng0 and BMC will be
connected to the same
switch, give them IP address
in the same range

Example:
 Node1:
IP mng0: 192.168.7.151
BMC: 192.168.7.143
 Node2:
IP mng0: 192.168.7.152
BMC: 192.168.7.144

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 Module Summary

 In this module, you should have learned to:

• Connect the network of the Hitachi Data Ingestor (HDI) cluster
• Configure the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) G series to provide
LDEVs to nodes
• Install the HDI software in the HDI nodes

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 Questions and Discussion

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 Module Review

1. Describe the use of Cluster management LU.

2. Before HDI software installation it is necessary to configure a RAID 1

with the MegaRAID utility (True or False).

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