The Start Now Advisor wizard goes thru a step-by-step configuration
of the BC S chassis and chassis components to automatically install
the Storage Configuration Manager (SCM) to set up the storage.
- Run Start Now Advisor to configure the chassis. Start Now
Advisor can run from any Windows machine that is connected to the
same network as the BCS chassis.
![Start Now Advisor - Welcome page](sna_welcome.jpg)
- Choose your preferred network connection.
![Start Now Advisor - Chassis Connection](sna_chassis_connection.jpg)
- Let Start Now Advisor discover the BC S automatically or
you can manually discover the BC S by providing an IP Address for
the management module.
![Start Now Advisor - Chassis Discovery](sna_chassis_discovery.jpg)
- After discovery Start Now Advisor will present an inventory
of the chassis either by image view or table view. Select Table view
for a detailed inventory.
![Start Now Advisor - Chassis Inventory and Health: Image View](sna_chassis_inv_health.jpg)
- Click the Table View tab to see the tabular view of the
inventory.
![Start Now Advisor - Chassis Inventory and Health: Table View](sna_chassis_inv_hlth_table_view.jpg)
- The ICPM requires the Launch Method.
Launch
method is required to automatically install the Storage Configuration
Manager to configure the storage.
The current version of Start
Now Advisor does not support the Intelligent Copper Pass-thru Module
(ICPM) for Express Setup. However, ICPM works fine with Launch method.
![Start Now Advisor - Configuration Method](sna_config_method.jpg)
- Assign the IP information for the Management Module.
![Start Now Advisor - Management Module IP Configuration](sna_mm_ip_config.jpg)
- Assign IP information for all I/O modules.
![Start Now Advisor - I/O Modules IP Configuration](sna_io_mod_ip_config.jpg)
- The Start Now Advisor automatically updates selected BC S
components.
![Start Now Advisor - Firmware Update](sna_firmware_update.jpg)
- The Start Now Advisor automatically installs SCM for storage
configuration.
![Start Now Advisor - Storage Management Software](sna_storage_management.jpg)
- Launch Storage Configuration Manager to configure volumes
and assignments to the blade servers.
If this is first
time you have run SCM, use the Welcome Wizard to discover the RAID
controllers.
![Start Now Advisor - Launch Web Consoles](sna_launch_web_consoles.jpg)
- Create storage pools. Select the physical drives and RAID
level 5 to create a pool.
For EBS, use RAID 5 pools
with enough space to create a volume for the management server and
a volume for the messaging server. The size varies on the amount of
data and user environment. Also allow room for growth. If there is
space left over, create a volume for the security server logs.
![Start Now Advisor - Storage: Creating storage pools](sna_storage.jpg)
- Create volumes from the pools.
At a minimum,
create two volumes, one for the management server and one for the
exchange server. If you are using premium edition EBS, then at least
one volume is required for the SQL server.
![Start Now Advisor - Storage: Volumes](sna_storage_volumes.jpg)
- Use the Volume Creation Wizard to map drives to the blade
servers. The SAS HBA cards in the blades are mapped to the volumes.
![Start Now Advisor - Storage: Hosts](sna_storage_hosts.jpg)
- Create a Global Hot Spare to quickly recover from a drive
failure.
![Start Now Advisor - Storage: Assign Global Hot Spare](sna_storage_global_hot_spare.jpg)
- Turn off the second SAS port for each blade because the
operating system does not yet recognize multi path configuration during
the installation.
Once EBS is installed and the drivers
are loaded, you can use SCM to turn on the ports.
![Start Now Advisor - BC S SAS RAID Module: Configuration: SAS Ports](sna_bcs_sas_raid_sas_ports.jpg)
- That completes the Start Now Advisor.
![Start Now Advisor - Chassis Configuration Complete](sna_chassis_config_complete.jpg)