Dell PowerVault NX1950 Installation And Troubleshooting Manual

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40 Important Information• Use the Cluster Administrator to delete the LUN. Start the ClusterAdministrator and then change the disk associated with the cluster to offline.NOTE: This action reports an error message from the PowerVault NX1950Management Console, but the LUN has been deleted.Dell Storage Initialization Wizard andArray NameThe Dell Storage Initialization Wizard in the Integrated Solution with thePowerVault MD3000 storage array configures the cluster nodes and thestorage array for the PowerVault NX1950 cluster solution. When you areconfiguring the cluster, ensure that the array name is persistent across bothnodes. If the array name is changed on one node and the change is notreplicated across the second node, the node without the change encountersVirtual Disk Service (VDS) provider issues.If a Node is Configured With iSCSI LUNs BeforeJoining the Cluster, the iSCSI Target MMCSnap-in CrashesIf iSCSI LUNs are configured on your PowerVault NX1950 storage system andyou are upgrading the operating system from Microsoft ® Windows ® UnifiedData Storage Server 2003 Standard Edition to Windows Unified DataStorage Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, you must follow the proceduredescribed in the Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems Important InformationGuide located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.Connection to the iSCSI LUN is Lost When aCluster Failover OccursIf the Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator is not configured properly, thenetwork settings for the Microsoft iSCSI Target may be reset when a resourcegroup fails. To re-establish connection to the iSCSI LUN, follow theprocedure described in the Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems ImportantInformation Guide located on the Dell Support website at support.dell.com.