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Dell™ PowerVault™ Modular Disk
Storage Manager User’s Guide
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Notes and Notices NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. ____________________ Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2008 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc. is strictly forbidden. Trademarks used in this text: Dell
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Contents 1 About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Summary Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Configure Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Modify Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Tools Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 iSCSI Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Support Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Other Information You May N
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Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Password Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Resetting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting the Serial Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 System Setup for Password Reset . . . . . . . . . 23 Reset Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Numbers . . . . . . 25 Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . .
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Viewing iSCSI Statistics and Setting Baseline Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology . . . . . . . . 38 4 Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Enabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5 About Your Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Configuring Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Automatic Configuration . . .
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6 Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . 53 Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 54 Automatic Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Manual Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Automatically Configuring Hot Spares . . . . . . . 58 Manually Configuring Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . 59 Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . .
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7 Premium Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks 67 Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Creating the Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . 71 Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 About the Advanced Path . . . .
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Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Setting Copy Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Recopying a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Device Health Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 SMrepassist Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Support Information Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Unidentified Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Recovering from an Unidentified Storage Array . . . . 104 A Enclosure Hardware Replacement, Maintenance, and Configuration Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Removing and Inserting Enclosure Management Modules on Attached Expansio
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10 Contents
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About This Guide Dell™ PowerVault™ Modular Disk (MD) Storage Manager software is used to create and manage multiple storage arrays. The software can be used on any host attached to the storage array, as well as on storage management stations connected to the same sub-network. MD Storage Manager is a graphical user interface (GUI) with wizard-guided tools and a task-based structure designed to reduce the complexity of installation, configuration, management, and diagnostic tasks. MD Storag
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Beneath the Array Selector is the Content Area. Several tabs appear in this area to group the tasks you can perform on the selected array. When you click on a tab, the Content Area displays links for the tasks you can perform. The following sections list some of the tasks you can perform under each tab. Summary Tab See the status of a storage array See the hardware components in a storage array See storage array capacity See hosts, mappings, and storage partitions See virtual dis
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Tools Tab Rename a storage array Set or change a password View or enable premium features Turn on indicator lights Change enclosure ID numbers Set or change enclosure tags Set up e-mail alerts and SNMP alerts Synchronize controller clocks, change the network configuration, or reset the battery age Inherit system settings Change media scan settings iSCSI Tab Set the authentication method supported by the target Define permissions for mutual authentication Set an alias f
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View online help View the event log Other Information You May Need CAUTION: For complete regulatory and safety information, see your Product Information Guide. Warranty information may be included within this document or as a separate one. Setting Up Your Dell PowerVault MD provides an overview of setting up and cabling your storage array. Dell™ PowerVault™ MD Installation Guide provides installation and configuration instructions for both software and hardware. Dell™ PowerVault™
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About Your Storage Array This chapter covers basic information about how to manage storage arrays from MD Storage Manager, including adding and removing arrays from the software, performing initial setup tasks, setting passwords on an array, and configuring alert notifications. For information on planning your storage array, see the Installation Guide. Following is a list of terms that are used throughout this chapter: Physical Disk — Non-volatile, randomly-addressable device for storing
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NOTICE: Removing or manipulating an access virtual disk can cause a loss of management access. If you remove an access virtual disk mapping from an in-band-managed storage array, MD Storage Manager can no longer access the storage array. Do not modify the access virtual disk either in the operating system or with MD Storage Manager. Out-of-Band and In-Band Management You can manage a storage array in two ways: Out-of-band management In-band management For out-of-band management, data is
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Adding Storage Arrays To add a storage array to MD Storage Manager, click New in the Array Selector area. A window is displayed that allows you to choose the automatic or manual process to add a new storage array. NOTE: Verify that your host or management station network configuration— including station IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway—is correct before adding a new storage array using the Automatic option. NOTE: For Linux, set the default gateway so that broadcast packets are
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To add a storage array that uses out-of-band management, specify the host name or IP address of each controller in the storage array. NOTE: It can take several minutes for MD Storage Manager to connect to the specified storage array. Naming Storage Arrays Each storage array should be assigned a unique name. A storage array name has a 30-character limit. All leading and trailing spaces are deleted from the name. A name can consist of letters, numbers, and the special characters underscore
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To remove a storage array: 1 Click Remove located to the right of the drop-down menu in the Array Selector. 2 Click OK in the Remove dialog box. You can still manage the storage array from other storage management stations where it has been added. Setting Up Your Storage Array The Perform Initial Setup Tasks link located on the Summary tab provides links to the basic steps you should follow when initially setting up a storage array in MD Storage Manager. Following these steps ensures that
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6 Configure Host Access — Set up one or more hosts to access the storage array. See "Configuring Host Access" on page 43 for more information. 7 Configure storage array (2 options) a Automatic (Simple) configuration Step 1: Automatic Configuration — See "Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks" on page 54 for more information. Step 2: Create Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings — See "Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings" on page 60 for more information. b Manual (Advanced) configuration Step
