Storage Appliances Prerequisites

Dell PoweScale

Enable API

https://developer.dell.com/apis/4088/versions/9.9.0/docs/Getting%20Started/3make_your_first_call.md

In order for Metalsoft to be able to connect to PowerScale, the API must be enabled. This can be done by running the following command on the PowerScale cluster via CLI:

isi_gconfig -t web-config auth_basic=true

Dell PowerFlex

Preparing Networking

For connecting Servers/SDC you will need to pre-create, inside the apropriate Fabric two Logical Networks to be used when deploying and attaching drives. The respective Logical networks must have the following Annotation:

metalcloud/is-storage-network: true

Automating SDC installation on the Servers

Metalsoft provides an example template for Ubuntu, which can be used to automate the installation of SDC on a server. The template can be found here