Hello,
I was looking for some suggestions trying to my two servers to both see a MD3420 Array as shared storage. The overview idea is here: http://i.imgur.com/UeWyLvg.jpg
Initial setup was very easy. I installed the Dell MD Storage software. MPIO is installed, as is Storage Manager for SANs. I was able to put a management IP address on the array, connect to it and create a disk group. After that I was able to see both host's port identifier numbers and did the host mapping which seemed correct. Once I did this I was expecting to the unformatted partition in Disk Management in Windows. I'm not sure where to go from here. I've upgraded firmware on the array, which went fine. I've looked in the Storage Manager for SANs and it sees the LUN (though it says uknown number.) Any help is appreciated.
Additional Info:
OS: Windows 2008 R2 Standard
Bus Adapter: www.lsi.com/products/host-bus-adapters/pages/lsi-sas-9300-8e.aspx
PowerVault: MD3420 with one SAS module card
Thank you!