Dell EMC PowerVault MD Series Administrator's Manual page 4

Disk migration............................................................................................................................................................. 23
Disk roaming............................................................................................................................................................... 24
Host server-to-virtual disk mapping........................................................................................................................ 24
Host types...................................................................................................................................................................24
Advanced features........................................................................................................................................................... 24
Types of snapshot functionality supported.............................................................................................................25
Virtual disk copy......................................................................................................................................................... 25
Virtual disk recovery.................................................................................................................................................. 26
Multi-path software.........................................................................................................................................................26
Preferred and alternate controllers and paths........................................................................................................26
Virtual disk ownership................................................................................................................................................26
Load balancing.................................................................................................................................................................. 27
Monitoring system performance.................................................................................................................................... 27
Interpreting performance monitor data...................................................................................................................28
Viewing real-time graphical performance monitor data........................................................................................ 30
Customizing the performance monitor dashboard.................................................................................................31
Specifying performance metrics...............................................................................................................................31
Viewing real-time textual performance monitor.....................................................................................................32
Saving real-time textual performance data.............................................................................................................33
Starting and stopping background performance monitor.....................................................................................33
Viewing information about the current background performance monitor session.......................................... 34
Viewing current background performance monitor data...................................................................................... 34
Saving the current background performance monitor data................................................................................. 35
Viewing saved background performance monitor data.........................................................................................35
Invalid objects in Performance Monitor...................................................................................................................36
3 Discovering and managing your storage array.............................................................................................. 37
Out-of-band management.............................................................................................................................................. 37
In-band management...................................................................................................................................................... 38
Access virtual disk......................................................................................................................................................38
Storage arrays.................................................................................................................................................................. 38
Automatic discovery of storage arrays....................................................................................................................38
Manual addition of storage array..............................................................................................................................38
Setting up your storage array......................................................................................................................................... 39
Locating storage arrays.............................................................................................................................................40
Naming or renaming storage arrays.........................................................................................................................40
Setting a password.................................................................................................................................................... 40
Adding or editing a comment to an existing storage array.................................................................................... 41
Removing storage arrays...........................................................................................................................................42
Enabling premium features....................................................................................................................................... 42
Displaying failover alert..............................................................................................................................................42
Changing the cache settings on the storage array................................................................................................43
Changing expansion enclosure ID numbers............................................................................................................ 43
Changing the enclosure order.................................................................................................................................. 43
Configuring alert notifications........................................................................................................................................ 43
Configuring e-mail alerts........................................................................................................................................... 44
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