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Dell 6 series Manual (256 pages)

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Table of contents

PS Series Storage Arrays

1

Table of Contents

3

Part III: Troubleshooting

10

Audience

13

Organization

13

Conventions

14

PS Series Array Software

15

Host Software for Windows

15

Host Software for VMware

15

Related Documentation

16

Contacting Dell

17

Online Services

17

About PS Series groups

19

Modular hardware

20

Seamless online scalability

21

Interoperability

21

Easy setup and management

21

Automatic SAN operation

22

Dynamic load balancing

22

Host-based applications

24

Part I: Managing Groups

25

2 Common group tasks

27

Setting the group time

27

About the Group Manager GUI

29

Navigating the GUI

30

Keyboard shortcuts

31

GUI icons

32

Accessing the alarms panel

32

Customizing the GUI

33

Using the CLI

34

4 Group security

37

About group security

37

Accessing the GUI or CLI

37

About administration accounts

38

Management

50

5 Group configuration

55

Displaying the Group summary

55

Group configuration tabs

57

Expanding group capacity

58

Shutting down a group

60

6 Group members

61

Displaying Group members

61

Displaying member details

61

Enclosure tab

62

Controllers tab

63

Disks tab

63

Network tab

63

Connections tab

64

Service tab

64

Member RAID policies

64

RAID level characteristics

65

Converting a RAID policy

67

Modify IP settings

69

About write cache operations

71

About member firmware

72

Updating member firmware

73

Shutting down a member

74

Restarting a member

75

7 Storage pools

79

About storage pools

79

Configuring a storage pool

79

Creating a storage pool

80

Displaying storage pools

81

Moving a member to a pool

82

Moving a volume to a pool

83

Merging storage pools

83

Deleting a storage pool

84

8 iSCSI target security

85

Creating a local CHAP account

86

Deleting a local CHAP account

87

About iSNS servers

88

Modifying an iSNS server

89

Multi-host access to targets

90

9 Basic volume operations

93

About volumes

93

About volume types

93

About volume space allocation

94

About volume data protection

95

Volume attributes

95

Creating standard volumes

97

Displaying volumes

98

Displaying volume details

99

Displaying volume snapshots

100

Displaying volume replication

101

Displaying volume collections

101

Displaying volume schedules

101

Displaying volume connections

102

About cloning volumes

103

Modifying a volume alias

105

Modifying volume permission

106

Deleting a volume

107

About thin provisioning

109

About reported volume size

113

Creating a thin clone

117

About volume collections

118

Status tab

119

Snapshots tab

119

Replicas tab

120

Schedules tab

120

Modifying a volume collection

120

Scheduling volume operations

121

Creating a schedule

122

Modifying a schedule

123

Deleting a schedule

123

11 Snapshot management

127

About snapshots

127

About snapshot schedules

129

Creating snapshots

129

About snapshot collections

131

Modifying snapshot properties

136

Modifying snapshot permission

137

Deleting snapshots

138

12 Volume replication

139

About replication

139

About replicas

139

How replication works

140

Manual Transfer Utility

141

Replication to one partner

142

Centralized replication

143

About replication space

145

5% + change rate

148

Replica volume reserve

150

Replica reserve usage

150

About replication partners

154

Attribute Description

155

Modifying partner passwords

158

Template replicas tab

161

Thin clone replica sets tab

161

Disabling replication

165

Creating a replica

166

Cloning an inbound replica

169

13 Data recovery

173

About data recovery

173

Data recovery procedures

174

Recovery volume restrictions

181

Where to go next

186

Handling a failed operation

187

Promote to volume

189

14 Group event logging

193

About event messages

193

Event priorities

194

About hardware alarms

194

Event notification methods

194

Configuring E-Mail home

196

About SNMP traps

198

15 Group monitoring

201

Monitoring events

202

Monitoring iSCSI connections

203

Monitoring snapshot schedules

204

Monitoring replication

205

Monitoring a specific partner

210

Monitoring alarms

210

Displaying critical alarms

211

Displaying warning alarms

212

Monitoring actions

213

Monitoring group operations

214

Monitoring group members

215

Monitoring a specific member

216

Displaying member space

217

Monitoring power supplies

218

Monitoring cooling and fans

218

Monitoring channel cards

219

Monitoring control modules

220

Control module status

221

Cache battery status

221

Monitoring disk drives

222

Monitoring network hardware

223

Using the Performance Monitor

227

Changing the display colors

231

Additional monitoring tools

232

Contacting customer support

233

Appendix A Legal notices

235

Glossary

239

Group Administration Glossary

240

Glossary–2

240

Glossary–3

241

Glossary–4

242

Glossary–5

243

Glossary–6

244

Glossary–7

245

Glossary–8

246

Glossary–9

247

Glossary–10

248

Index-1

249

Group Administration Index

250

Index- 2

250

Index-3

251

Index- 4

252

Index-5

253

Index- 6

254

Index-7

255

Index- 8

256

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