Solution overview – Dell PowerVault NX1950 User Manual

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Deployment Guide

This document provides information about the deployment tools on your

system and a general overview of the Microsoft

Windows

Unified Data

Storage Server 2003 x64 operating system. For information about cabling,

configuring, and localizing your Dell™ PowerVault™ NX1950 storage

solution, see the Dell PowerVault NX1950 Systems Installation Guide.

For more information, see the operating system documentation located on the

Dell documentation website at www.dell.com/ostechsheets.
The following topics are discussed in this document:

NOTE:

Throughout this document, PowerVault NX1950 storage system refers to the

individual storage unit and PowerVault NX1950 storage solution refers to the

configuration of the storage unit along with the storage arrays.

Solution Overview

The PowerVault NX1950 storage solution consists of either a single-node or a

multiple-node cluster configuration running the Windows Unified Data

Storage Server 2003 operating system. The solution is configured from Dell

for either a PowerVault MD3000 storage array (integrated solution), a

Dell|EMC storage array (Dell|EMC Storage Area Network [SAN] gateway

solution) or a Dell EqualLogic storage array (Dell EqualLogic iSCSI Storage

Area Network [SAN] gateway solution). The solution is pre-configured with

the operating system and the required software. Minimal configuration steps

are required to complete the setup of the solution.

NOTE:

The default Administrator password for your system is storageserver.

Figure 1-1 illustrates the components of the integrated solution and the SAN

gateway solutions. Table 1-1 lists the supported software components for

Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003.