Ways To Administer The Storage System - Hitachi VSP Gx00 series System Administrator Manual

Ways to administer the storage system

The system administration tasks described in this guide apply to all VSP Gx00 models
and Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600, F800 storage systems, including those
with NAS modules.
Users with storage systems that do not have NAS modules use Hitachi Storage Advisor
(HSA), Device Manager - Storage Navigator, and the maintenance utility to administer
block operations. If your storage system includes NAS modules, use NAS Manager to
administer file operations, and then use the maintenance utility to verify that the
settings are synchronized with block operations.
For more information about administration tasks for file operations, see the following
documentation:
Storage Subsystem Administration Guide (MK-92HNAS012)
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Storage System User Administration Guide (MK-92HNAS013)
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File Services Administration Guide (MK-92HNAS006)
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Server and Cluster Administration Guide (MK-92HNAS010)
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System Access Guide (MK-92HNAS014)
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For more information about HSA, see the following documentation:
Hitachi Storage Advisor Getting Started Guide (MK-94HSA001)
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Hitachi Storage Advisor RESTful API Reference Guide (MK-94HSA003)
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Hitachi Storage Advisor User Guide (MK-94HSA004)
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You can also perform some administration tasks from a command line. For information,
see Command Control Interface User and Reference Guide (MK-90RD7010) and the
Command Control Interface Command Reference (MK-90RD7009), which you can access
from the Documentation page of NAS Manager.
Overview of Storage Advisor
Hitachi Storage Advisor is a unified software management tool that reduces the
complexity of managing storage systems by simplifying the setup, management, and
maintenance of storage resources.
Storage Advisor reduces infrastructure management complexities and enables a new
simplified approach to managing storage infrastructures. It provides intuitive graphical
user interfaces and recommended configuration practices to streamline system
configurations and storage management operations. You can leverage Storage Advisor to
easily provision new storage capacity for business applications without requiring in-
depth knowledge of the underlying infrastructure resource details. It provides centralized
management while reducing the number of steps to configure, optimize, and deploy new
infrastructure resources.
Some of the key Storage Advisor capabilities include:
Simplified user experience for managing infrastructure resources. Visual aids enable
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easy viewing and interpretation of key management information, such as used and
available capacity, and guide features to help quickly determine appropriate next
steps for a given management task.
Recommended system configurations to speed initial storage system setup and
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accelerate new infrastructure resource deployments.
System Administrator Guide for VSP Gx00 models and VSP Fx00 models
Chapter 1: System administration overview
Ways to administer the storage system
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