Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases - Manual (Page 3)

CONTENTS
Overview ........................................................................................................................................... 1
ION ACCELERATOR SOFTWARE FEATURES AND BENEFITS .......................................................... 1
INTEROPERABILITY ...................................................................................................................... 2
Operating Systems and Multipathing .......................................................................................... 2
Browser Requirements ................................................................................................................ 2
Clustering ................................................................................................................................... 2
First Boot Setup ................................................................................................................................. 5
ION Accelerator Configuration .................................................................................................... 5
LICENSE AGREEMENT ................................................................................................................. 7
NETWORK CONFIGURATION OVERVIEW ..................................................................................... 8
SETTING THE HOSTNAME AND ROUTING INFORMATION ............................................................ 8
CONFIGURING THE MANAGEMENT PORT ................................................................................. 10
CONFIGURING ADDITIONAL DEVICES ....................................................................................... 11
Cluster Interconnect Guidelines ................................................................................................. 11
iSCSI Guidelines ........................................................................................................................ 12
Configuring iSCSI Split-Port Capability ...................................................................................... 12
VERIFYING THE NETWORK SETTINGS ........................................................................................ 15
Saving the Network Configuration ............................................................................................ 15
SETTING THE CLOCK AND TIME ZONE ...................................................................................... 17
SETTING THE DATE AND TIME .................................................................................................. 18
ENABLING THE HA CLUSTER ..................................................................................................... 19
SETTING UP PASSWORDS.......................................................................................................... 20
COMPLETING FIRST BOOT ......................................................................................................... 21
Connecting to ION Accelerator ........................................................................................................ 22
Logging In via the CLI (Command-line Interface) ....................................................................... 22
Logging In via the GUI ............................................................................................................... 22
CHANGING NODE NAMES AND IP ADDRESSES ......................................................................... 24
Changing a Node Name in a Cluster ......................................................................................... 24
Changing the Management IP Address ..................................................................................... 25
Changing the ION Accelerator Cluster Name or Cluster IP Address............................................ 25
Changing the Gateway IP Address ............................................................................................ 25