Dell EMC PowerVault MD Series Administrator's Manual page 10

Ready for use.............................................................................................................................................................151
Linux host server reboot best practices.......................................................................................................................151
Important information about special partitions........................................................................................................... 152
Limitations and known issues........................................................................................................................................152
Troubleshooting.............................................................................................................................................................. 153
13 Configuring Asymmetric Logical Unit Access............................................................................................ 154
ALUA performance considerations...............................................................................................................................154
Automatic transfer of ownership..................................................................................................................................154
Native ALUA support on Microsoft Windows and Linux........................................................................................... 154
Enabling ALUA on VMware ESXi .................................................................................................................................155
Manually adding SATP rule in ESXi 5.x.................................................................................................................. 155
Verifying ALUA on VMware ESXi................................................................................................................................. 155
Verifying if host server is using ALUA for MD storage array.................................................................................... 155
Setting round-robin load balancing policy on ESXi-based storage arrays............................................................... 156
14 Premium feature-Remote Replication..................................................................................................... 157
About asynchronous Remote Replication....................................................................................................................157
Remote replicated pairs and replication repositories.................................................................................................. 157
Types of Remote Replication........................................................................................................................................ 158
Differences between Remote Replication features..............................................................................................158
Upgrading to asynchronous Remote Replication from Remote Replication (legacy)...................................... 158
Remote Replication requirements and restrictions.....................................................................................................159
Restrictions on using Remote Replication.............................................................................................................159
Setting up Remote Replication..................................................................................................................................... 159
Activating Remote Replication premium features...................................................................................................... 159
Deactivating Remote Replication................................................................................................................................. 160
Remote Replication groups........................................................................................................................................... 160
Purpose of a Remote Replication group................................................................................................................160
Remote Replication group requirements and guidelines.......................................................................................161
Creating a Remote Replication group..................................................................................................................... 161
Replicated pairs............................................................................................................................................................... 161
Guidelines for choosing virtual disks in a replicated pair.......................................................................................161
Guidelines for choosing virtual disks in a replicated pair......................................................................................162
Creating replicated pairs.......................................................................................................................................... 162
Removing replicated pair from Remote Replication group.................................................................................. 163
15 Management firmware downloads............................................................................................................ 164
Downloading RAID controller and NVSRAM packages............................................................................................. 164
Downloading both RAID controller and NVSRAM firmware..................................................................................... 164
Downloading only NVSRAM firmware......................................................................................................................... 165
Downloading physical disk firmware.............................................................................................................................167
Downloading MD3060e Series expansion module EMM firmware.......................................................................... 167
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)................................................................................168
Media errors and unreadable sectors...........................................................................................................................168
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