Dell Acceleration Appliances for Databases User Manual

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10. Click OK to exit each dialog, until prompted to restart the system.

11. If you are running in standalone mode, click Yes to reboot, and then skip ahead to

Discovering Multipaths below.

12. If you are running in HA mode, click No at the reboot prompt, as there are still additional

steps to do.

13. Use

regedit

to edit the Registry with the following changes:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services

\Disk\TimeOutValue = 60 secs
\mpio\Parameters\UseCustomPathRecoveryInterval = 1

If you are using Fibre Channel, use the 30-second interval shown below; if you are using
iSCSI, set the interval to 5:

\mpio\Parameters\PathRecoveryInterval = 30 secs

14. For the QLogic HBA (Fibre Channel), make the following changes in the driver, using the

QLogic CLI or GUI in Windows:

QLogic Port Link/Down Timeout = 15 secs
QLogic Port Retry/Down Timeout = 15 secs


Or if you are using Emulex drivers with Fibre Channel, make the following changes:

Emulex LinkTimeout = 15 secs
Emulex NodeTimeout = 60 secs

15. Restart the Windows system.

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