I was never a fan of ‘System Setup’ (the GUI way of setting up pre-9.1 clusters), so when I
heard that ONTAP 9.1 has an On-Box Cluster Setup, I wanted to try it out, so
here we go!
Note i: With the VSIM
you can’t use Guided Setup to create anything other than a single node cluster,
if you try for a 2 node cluster it will complain that “HA is not configured”,
but it would let you part do the first node in the cluster, and then you’d need
to add the second VSIM node using CLI. With real world systems you won’t
encounter this.
Note ii: Another
problem I found with using Guided Cluster Setup against a VSIM, is that it gets
stuck at ‘Step 2: Network’. The error is fairly vague, I’m pretty sure it’s due
to the absence of service-processor on the VSIM. Again, with real world systems
you won’t encounter this. The moral of the story “don’t use Guided Cluster
Setup to setup a VSIM.”
Here we have 1 x ONTAP 9.1 simulator. The basic setup is
similar to here - Build
Recipe for 8.3.2 - up to and including step 1.8 (node setup).
Image: Node
management interface configuration via the console
Guided Cluster Setup
1) Point your
web browser at https://NODE_MGMT_IP
And the below is what you should see. A very cool feature
is that you can download/upload a template (in CSV format - see the Appendix
for more).
Image: Welcome to
the Guided Cluster Setup
2) Click the
‘Guided Setup’ button.
Image: Guided Setup
2.1) Cluster
- Input Cluster name
- Input Node name
- Tick the single node cluster box
- Input admin password
- Click Submit
Image: Guided
Cluster Setup 1 - Cluster
Note: The Cluster
Base License is now optional in 9.1’s setup (mandatory to add Feature
Licenses).
2.2) Network
- Input network details as required (see image below)
- Click Submit
Image: Guided
Cluster Setup 2 - Network
... and this is where we get stuck with the VSIM. Still,
hopefully this post wasn’t a total fail and you can see the potential (check
out the Appendix for the CSV details!)
Image: Error in the
input fields. Verify the field values before proceeding.
Appendix: Cluster Setup Template
The Cluster Setup Template functionality will be very
useful. The CSV/XLSX can be downloaded from ‘Guided Cluster Setup’. I’m not
going to copy and paste the CSV template here, just detail the fields to give
an idea of what it could be used for (up to 8 node cluster setup!)
Section: Cluster
Version
Cluster
Name
Configuration
Type(for SingleNodeCluster)
Configuration
Type(for TwoNodeCluster)
Base
License
Feature
License(Optional)
Section: Network
Network
Configuration Type
IP
Address Range1
IP
Address Range2
IP
Address Range3
Cluster
MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-2
MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-3
MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-4
MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-5
MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-6
MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-7
MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-8
MgmtDetails(Manual)
Override
Existing SP MgmtDetails
Node-1
SP MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-2
SP MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-3
SP MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-4
SP MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-5
SP MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-6
SP MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-7
SP MgmtDetails(Manual)
Node-8
SP MgmtDetails(Manual)
DNS
Domain Names
DNS
Server IP Addresses
NTP
Primary
NTP
Alternative(Optional)
Section: Support
AutoSupport
Status
AutoSupport
URL(Optional)
EMS
SMTP MailHost
EMS
Mail IDs
EMS
SNMP TrapHost
EMS
Syslog Server
SysBackup
Transport Protocol
SysBackup
Destination Address
THE END
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