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Dell EMC PowerVault MD 3800f Administrator's Manual (185 pages)
Storage Arrays
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
3
1 Introduction
12
Dell EMC Powervault Modular Disk Storage Manager
12
User Interface
12
Enterprise Management Window
13
Inheriting the System Settings
13
Array Management Window
14
Dell EMC Powervault Modular Disk Configuration Utility
15
Related Documentation
15
2 About Your MD Series Storage Array
16
Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, and Disk Groups
16
Physical Disks
16
Physical Disk States
16
Virtual Disks and Disk Groups
17
Virtual Disk States
17
Disk Pools
18
Thin Virtual Disks
18
RAID Levels
18
Maximum Physical Disk Support Limitations
18
RAID Level Usage
18
Raid 0
19
Raid 1
19
Raid 5
19
Raid 6
19
Raid 10
19
Segment Size
19
Virtual Disk Operations
20
Virtual Disk Initialization
20
Consistency Check
20
Media Verification
20
Cycle Time
20
Virtual Disk Operations Limit
21
Disk Group Operations
21
RAID Level Migration
21
Segment Size Migration
21
Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion
21
Disk Group Expansion
22
Disk Group Defragmentation
22
Disk Group Operations Limit
22
RAID Background Operations Priority
22
Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming
23
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
Configuring SNMP Alerts
45
Battery Settings
47
Changing the Battery Settings
47
Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller Module Clocks
48
4 Using Iscsi
49
Changing the Iscsi Target Authentication
49
Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions
50
Creating CHAP Secrets
50
Initiator CHAP Secret
50
Target CHAP Secret
50
Valid Characters for CHAP Secrets
50
Changing the Iscsi Target Identification
51
Changing Iscsi Target Discovery Settings
51
Configuring the Iscsi Host Ports
52
Advanced Iscsi Host Port Settings
52
Viewing or Ending an Iscsi Session
53
Viewing Iscsi Statistics and Setting Baseline Statistics
53
Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology
54
5 Event Monitor
55
Enabling or Disabling Event Monitor
55
Windows
55
Linux
56
6 About Your Host
57
Configuring Host Access
57
Using the Host Mappings Tab
57
Defining a Host
58
Removing Host Access
59
Managing Host Groups
59
Creating a Host Group
59
Adding a Host to a Host Group
59
Removing a Host from a Host Group
60
Moving a Host to a Different Host Group
60
Removing a Host Group
60
Host Topology
60
Starting or Stopping the Host Context Agent
61
I/O Data Path Protection
61
Managing Host Port Identifiers
62
7 Disk Groups, Standard Virtual Disks, and Thin Virtual Disks
63
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
63
Creating Disk Groups
63
Locating Disk Group
64
Creating Standard Virtual Disks
65
Changing the Virtual Disk Modification Priority
66
Changing Virtual Disk Cache Settings
66
Changing Segment Size of Virtual Disk
67
Changing the I/O Type
68
Thin Virtual Disks
68
Advantages of Thin Virtual Disks
68
Physical Vs Virtual Capacity an a Thin Virtual Disk
69
Thin Virtual Disk Requirements and Limitations
69
Thin Virtual Disk Attributes
70
Thin Virtual Disk States
70
Comparison-Types of Virtual Disks and Copy Services
70
Rollback on Thin Virtual Disks
71
Initializing a Thin Virtual Disk
71
Changing a Thin Virtual Disk to a Standard Virtual Disk
74
Utilizing Unmapping for Thin Virtual Disk
74
Enabling Unmap Thin Provisioning for Thin Virtual Disk
74
Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type
75
Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting Disk
75
Creating a Security Key
76
Changing Security Key
77
Saving a Security Key
78
Validate Security Key
79
Unlocking Secure Physical Disks
79
Erasing Secure Physical Disks
79
Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks
79
Hot Spares and Rebuild
80
Global Hot Spares
80
Hot Spare Operation
81
Hot Spare Physical Disk Protection
81
Physical Disk Security
81
Enclosure Loss Protection
82
Drawer Loss Protection
83
Host-To-Virtual Disk Mapping
83
Creating Host-To-Virtual Disk Mappings
84
Modifying and Removing Host-To-Virtual Disk Mapping
85
Changing RAID Controller Ownership of the Virtual Disk
85
Removing Host-To-Virtual Disk Mapping
86
Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership of a Disk Group
86
Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group
86
Removing a Host-To-Virtual Disk Mapping Using Linux DMMP
87
Restricted Mappings
88
Storage Partitioning
88
Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion
89
Disk Group Expansion
89
Virtual Disk Expansion
90
Using Free Capacity
90
Using Unconfigured Capacity
90
Disk Group Migration
91
Export Disk Group
91
Import Disk Group
92
Storage Array Media Scan
92
Changing Media Scan Settings
93
Suspending Media Scan
93
8 Disk Pools and Disk Pool Virtual Disks
94
Difference between Disk Groups and Disk Pools
95
Disk Pool Restrictions
95
Creating a Disk Pool Manually
95
Automatically Managing Unconfigured Capacity in Disk Pools
96
Locating Physical Disks in a Disk Pool
97
Renaming a Disk Pool
97
Configuring Alert Notifications for a Disk Pool
97
Adding Unassigned Physical Disks to a Disk Pool
98
Configuring the Preservation Capacity of a Disk Pool
98
Changing the Modification Priority of a Disk Pool
98
Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership of a Disk Pool
99
Checking Data Consistency
99
Deleting Disk Pool
100
Viewing Storage Array Logical Components and Associated Physical Components
101
Secure Disk Pools
101
Changing Capacity on Existing Thin Virtual Disks
102
Creating Thin Virtual Disk from Disk Pool
102
9 Using SSD Cache
104
How SSD Cache Works
104
Benefits of SSD Cache
104
Choosing SSD Cache Parameters
105
SSD Cache Restrictions
105
Creating an SSD Cache
105
Viewing Physical Components Associated with an SSD Cache
106
Locating Physical Disks in an SSD Cache
106
Adding Physical Disks to an SSD Cache
106
Removing Physical Disks from an SSD Cache
107
Suspending or Resuming SSD Caching
107
Changing I/O Type in an SSD Cache
107
Renaming an SSD Cache
107
Deleting SSD Cache
108
Using the Performance Modeling Tool
108
10 Premium Feature-Snapshot Virtual Disk
109
Snapshot Images and Groups
109
Snapshot Virtual Disk Read/Write Properties
109
Snapshot Groups and Consistency Groups
110
Snapshot Groups
110
Snapshot Consistency Groups
110
Understanding Snapshot Repositories
111
Consistency Group Repositories
111
Ranking Repository Candidates
111
Using Snapshot Consistency Group to a Remote Replication
111
Creating Snapshot Images
112
Creating Snapshot Image
112
Canceling a Pending Snapshot Image
113
Deleting Snapshot Image
113
Scheduling Snapshot Images
114
Creating a Snapshot Schedule
114
Editing a Snapshot Schedule
115
Performing Snapshot Rollbacks
115
Snapshot Rollback Limitations
115
Starting Snapshot Rollback
116
Resuming a Snapshot Image Rollback
116
Canceling Snapshot Image Rollback
117
Viewing the Progress of a Snapshot Rollback
117
Changing Snapshot Rollback Priority
117
Creating Snapshot Group
118
Manually Creating a Consistency Group Repository
119
Changing Snapshot Group Settings
120
Renaming a Snapshot Group
120
Deleting Snapshot Group
121
Converting a Snapshot Virtual Disk to Read-Write
121
Viewing Associated Physical Components of an Individual Repository Virtual Disk
121
Creating Consistency Group
122
Manually Creating a Consistency Group Repository
123
Renaming a Consistency Group
124
Deleting Consistency Group
124
Changing the Settings of a Consistency Group
124
Adding a Member Virtual Disk to a Consistency Group
125
Removing Member Virtual Disk from Consistency Group
126
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk of a Snapshot Image
126
Snapshot Virtual Disk Limitations
126
Creating Snapshot Virtual Disk
127
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Repository
128
Changing the Settings of a Snapshot Virtual Disk
129
Disabling Snapshot Virtual Disk or Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk
129
Re-Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk or Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk
130
Renaming a Snapshot Virtual Disk or Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk
130
Creating Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk
131
Manually Creating a Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk Repository
132
Disabling Snapshot Virtual Disk or Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk
133
Re-Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk or Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk
134
Changing the Modification Priority of an Overall Repository Virtual Disk
135
Changing the Media Scan Setting of an Overall Repository Virtual Disk
135
Changing the Pre-Read Consistency Check Setting of an Overall Repository Virtual Disk
136
Increasing Capacity of Overall Repository
137
Decreasing the Capacity of the Overall Repository
138
Performing Revive Operation
139
11 Premium Feature-Virtual Disk Copy
140
Types of Virtual Disk Copies
141
Offline Copy
141
Online Copy
141
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS Shared Disk
141
Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions
142
Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions
142
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy
142
Setting Read/Write Permissions on Target Virtual Disk
143
Before You Begin
143
Virtual Disk Copy and Modification Operations
143
Create Copy Wizard
143
Failed Virtual Disk Copy
144
Preferred RAID Controller Module Ownership
144
Failed RAID Controller Module
144
Copy Manager
144
Copying the Virtual Disk
144
Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy
145
Setting Copy Priority
145
Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy
146
Recopying a Virtual Disk
146
Preparing Host Servers to Recopy Virtual Disk
146
Recopying the Virtual Disk
147
Removing Copy Pairs
147
12 Device Mapper Multipath for Linux
148
Overview
148
Using Device Mapper Multipathing Devices (DMMP)
148
Prerequisites
148
Device Mapper Configuration Steps
149
Scan for Newly Added Virtual Disks
149
Display Multipath Device Topology Using Multipath Command
149
Create Fdisk Partition on Multipath Device Node
150
Add New Partition to Device Mapper
150
Create File System on Device Mapper Partition
151
Mount a Device Mapper Partition
151
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
16 Firmware Inventory
170
Viewing the Firmware Inventory
170
17 System Interfaces
171
Virtual Disk Service
171
Volume Shadow-Copy Service
171
18 Storage Array Software
173
Start-Up Routine
173
Device Health Conditions
173
Trace Buffers
175
Retrieving Trace Buffers
176
Collecting Physical Disk Data
176
Creating a Support Data Collection Schedule
176
Suspending or Resuming a Support Data Collection Schedule
177
Removing a Support Data Collection Schedule
177
Event Log
177
Viewing the Event Log
178
Recovery Guru
178
Storage Array Profile
178
Viewing the Physical Associations
179
Recovering from Unresponsive Storage Array Condition
179
Locating a Physical Disk
181
Locating an Expansion Enclosure
181
Capturing State Information
182
Smrepassist Utility
182
Unidentified Devices
182
Recovering from Unidentified Storage Array
183
Starting or Restarting the Host Context Agent Software
184
Starting the Smagent Software in Windows
184
Starting Smagent Software in Linux
184
19 Getting Help
185
Contacting Dell EMC
185
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| Category:
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
3
Introduction
4
Revision History
4
Data Protocols
6
Dell EMC Powervault MD Series Storage Array Rules
7
Default Ipv4 Settings for Management Ports on Dell EMC Powervault MD Series Storage Arrays
11
Default Ipv4 Settings for the Iscsi Ports on Powervault Md38X0I Storage Arrays
11
RAID Controller Firmware and NVSRAM
12
Iscsi Software Initiators
13
Protocol (Toe/Iscsi) Offload Adapters
14
Fibre Channel SFP+ Transceiver Support
15
Physical Disks
16
Expansion Enclosures
27
Management Software
28
Operating Systems
30
Windows ODX
34
ALUA Support on Host Operating Systems
35
Device Mapper Software
36
SAS Host Bus Adapters
37
Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
38
Fibre Channel Direct-Attach Configuration Operating Systems
40
Required Timeout Settings for Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters
41
Supported Fibre Channel Switches
42
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