Initializing Isilon Gen 6 nodes

Hello guys in this post I will show you how to initializing Isilon Gen 6 nodes.

Steps:

• Connect to the first node via a serial connection with the following configuration.

• Then type the number 1 and hit enter to create a new cluster.

• Press space bar until the finish of the EULA, type yes and hit enter.

• Type the password for the root account twice, and for the administrator account twice.

• Type the name for the cluster and hit enter.

• Choose the encoding for the cluster or hit enter for the default “utf-8”.

• Configure the internal network “a” like the following example.

• Configure the internal network “b” like the following example.

• Configure the external network like the following example.

• Configure smartconnect.

• Configure DNS settings.

• Configure the cluster date and time.

• Configure the cluster join mode.

• Review the configuration before commit.

• Verify the status of the first node.

• Add the rest of the nodes one by one.

• Verify the status of the cluster.

• Modify the vlan-id of the initial subnet via CLI if you need to.

isi netwok subnets modify groupnet0.subnet0 --vlan-enable=yes --vlan-id X

• Verify the subnet with the new vlan-id.

• Add unused interfaces to the initial pool with the following command, if you need to.

isi netwok pools modify groupnet0.subnet0.pool0 --add-ifaces=1-4:10gige-2

• Verify the interface list.

And we finish, verify the connectivity of the cluster via web browser. Type the IP address from the node pool like: https:<ip_node_pool>:8080.

Error while joining the node to the cluster, visit this post.

Add some configurations via GUI with the MGMT-1 (UTP) interface prior connecting to the external network, visit this post.