Create Machine Prefix

Machine prefixes are used to generate names of provisioned machines and are shared across all tenants. Make sure you are logged in using the Fabric Administrator else this option will not be visible. Only Fabric Administrators can create the Machine Prefix.

Also this Machine Prefix will be required during the Business Group creation.

Requirements to create Machine Prefix,

1. Machine prefixes must conform with DNS naming restrictions and include only ASCII letters A through Z and digits 0 through 9.
2. There should not be any special characters.
3. For Windows Operating Systems, machine length must be limited to 15 characters.

Tenant Configuration

There are two types of deployments here, one is Single-Tenant and other is Multi-Tenant deployment. In a Multi-Tenant deployment you can add multiple tenants for each organization where each Tenant has its own configuration settings.

You need to login to the vCAC Service portal using the vCenter SSO credentials (administrator@vsphere.local). 

Before you move onto check out Tenants, another important thing is to add License,

DELL PowerVault MD3600i - LUN Creation

1. Click on the 'Storage and Copy services' tab and check if there is sufficient space available. Right click on the container showing Free capacity details and select 'Create Virtual Disk'

DELL PowerVault MD3600i - Host Group Creation

1. Goto 'Host Mappings' tab. Right click on the Array and click create a new Host Group.

DELL PowerVault MD3600i

We recently received this DELL Power Vault iSCSI Storage box for testing purpose. I captured the screenshots when I was playing with it and configuring the LUN. 

Note: This is not a production box and I have just created this post for reference purpose.

"The Dell PowerVault™ MD3600i array is a next-generation 10 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI SAN solution that is ideal for entry-level storage consolidation in virtualized environments that require high availability and high performance without sacrificing ease of use. Designed for flexibility, the MD3600i arrays support a range of drive types, enclosures and RAID levels all within a single array"

Below is the specification sheet for this 

Specification Sheet

So lets begin to explore certain features and options for this storage. The software installation is pretty much straight forward. I writing this post software installation. So once you have installed the software you can start the Disk Storage Manager.

1. Initial Setup
2. Host Group Creation
3. LUN Creation

Initial Setup

1. This is what you see when you login to the console. There are certain Start-up tasks you can perform.