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Install EMC Storage in Fedora Linux

Here we are installing EMC storage in Fedora 13 (which is not recommended by EMC). EMC's software Powerpath will not support with Fedora. So here we are using the package called Multipath. That is default with fedora. 1.      Try to boot from the fedora optical Media. 2.      Press Esc button when you will get the first boot loader menu for the boot prompt.  3.      In that boot prompt. Type: # Linux mpath Then press Enter. (If you are not getting the basic video driver then do the following step) # Linux mpath xdriver=vesa nomodeset 4.      Install fedora with all the available packages. (In the mean time you can configure the storage also. In storage you have to create  virtual disk[s].) 5.      Configure the IP addresses. 6.      Connect the storage with server through switch. 7.      start the iscsi daemons: # /etc/init.d/iscsid start # /etc/init.d/iscsi start 8.      Configure your iscsi daemons with the following commands: # iscsia