Quick Start Guide
This is a quick guide to installing Open-ESS
for users that are used to Open-E installations.
For information about Open-E DSSv7, click
here.
Step 1: Download install
files. You will need to two files:
dss7.0up57_b21661.oe_i.iso
upd_70594-DSS-V7-EASYCO-D3-D3MLX-170421.upd
You need to install Open-E from the above
version. The ESS software is compiled to run with the kernel
includes with this version.
Step 2: Install Open-E
as usual from version "b21661...iso" downloaded
above.
Step 3: After Open-E
is installed, from the Open-E web interface, select "Maintenance"
and "Software update" to reach the "System
Software Update" section.
Upload the "70594....170421.upd"
file.
Accept the update.
Step 4: From the console,
press <ctrl><alt>W to access the "Hardware
Configuration" menu. This menu should have an ESS option
you have never seen before. This is the "ESS Admin
Text Utility".
Step 5: The first time
you run the ESS utility, you must run the option "Check
for Updates" to download the latest ESS release. The
software includes with the "70594...upd" file
is not a complete ESS release and you must download an update
to continue. The downloaded update is small (less than 1MB)
and digitally signed to insure you get a complete, intact,
unmodified download.
Step 6: Once the update
is downloaded, exit the ESS text utility and re-run it.
The downloaded update actually updates the text utility
itself, so you need to re-run it to run the latest code.
Step 7: Enter an ESS
license key using the first option in the ESS text utility.
You will need an ESS "serial number" and "capacity".
The capacity is the usuable capacity of your array in gigabytes.
You should contact "sales@easyco.com"
to get these numbers. Demos activations are available.
Step 8: Create an ESS
array using the ESS text utility.
Step 9: Once the ESS
array is created, you can use the Open-E web admin utility
to create a volume group. Under "Configuration"
and "Volume Manager" and "Volume Groups"
you should now see an Enterprise Storage Stack "Unit
ESS-md0". Create the default "vg00" volume
group using this device.
At this point you can use Open-E with
the vg00 volume group as the SSD array managed by ESS.
Open-ESS is the integration of WildFire's
Enterprise Storage Stack into the Open-E DSSv7 SAN/NAS storage
manager.
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