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HP Surestore NAS User Manual

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Plan your storage. Review the Planning your Storage section of this manual under:

HP NAS VA

Planning Your Storage

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Set up your storage system.
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The first time your HP NAS VA solution is booted up, it will not recognize that any
storage arrays are attached. To make your solution recognize the attached arrays:
1. Go to the Storage tab.
2. Navigate the logic tree to Quick Setup and select RAID Devices.
3. No RAID devices are listed in the RAID Device Summary. You should see a

message posted that says, "This system has not detected any RAID devices
connected to it. Use the Action button and select "Force Hardware Rescan" to
rescan and detect RAID devices ."

4. Click on the Action button.
5. Select Force Hardware Rescan (slow) to scan for your arrays.
6. From the Action button selection menu, select Initialize and Configure

Storage. This will create LUNs on the array, allowing you to use the storage for
your logical volumes, mount points, and share points.

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Verify that the HP NAS VA is accessible to users by accessing the shares with a
Windows client and mounting the file system from a UNIX client.

After you have setup your HP NAS VA, you can:

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Monitor your system by viewing settings in the Status Tab.

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Enable add-on software such as backup agents and anti-virus protection.

set_parms initial Command

On first boot of your system, run the set_parms initial command from a command prompt.
It allows you to setup a variety of system information needed to be able to manage your system
from the NAS web interface.

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The command has a welcome screen asking if you are ready to link to a network. Follow
the on-screen instructions.

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If you continued, the next screen lists the information that you will be required to input
(system hostname, time zone, and IP address) and asks if you want to continue.

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If you accept, you will be asked to enter the system hostname. Qualifications for names
are given on-screen. After entering your hostname, you are asked to confirm your
decision.

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The next screen asks you to select a location from a list. Enter your selection. Next, you
will select a time zone from a list and be asked to confirm your selection. You will then
be shown the current system time in that time zone for your verification. You have the
option of changing or accepting the system clock setting shown.

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Next, you enter the IP address and verify it. On-screen qualifications for the IP address
are given.

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You are asked if you want to set additional parameters: subnet mask and gateway
default address, DNS, and NIS.
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If accepted and If more than one NIC is installed, you will get a message indicating
that this command only sets the default network interface. It also tells you to use
SAM to configure additional NICs.

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The next page asks if you want to set the subnet mask and the the gateway default
address.

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If accepted, you will set the subnet mask and the gateway IP address per the on-screen
instructions. You are asked to verify your entries.

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Next, you are asked if you want to set the local domain name and the DNS server IP
address.

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If yes, you are asked to set the local domain name and the DNS server IP address. You
will be asked to verify your entries.