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Dell PowerVault MD3600i and MD3620i Storage Arrays Owner’s Manual Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001 book.book Page 1 Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:13 PM ...
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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed. WARNING: ...
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Contents 3 Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Inside the Box of the Dell PowerVault MD3600i Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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4 Contents 3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules. . . . 31 RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 RAID Controller Module—Addi...
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Contents 5 Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Disk Group Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45...
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6 Contents 5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 62 Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 6 Configura...
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Contents 7 Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 7 Configuration: Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication . . . . . . . 87 Entering Mutual Authe...
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8 Contents 9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 99 Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Remov...
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Contents 9 Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . . 121 Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Creating a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Changing a Security Ke...
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10 Contents Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . 148 Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 ...
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Contents 11 Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 About the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . ....
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12 Contents Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions . . . . . . . . . 182 Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Before you Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Contents 13 13 Configuration: Premium Feature— Upgrading to High-Performance-Tier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 14 Configuration: Device Mapper Multipath for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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14 Contents Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors . . . . . . . . 216 16 Management: Installing Array Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . ...
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Contents 15 Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Removing a Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Installing a Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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16 Contents Retrieving Trace Buffers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Collecting Physical Disk Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Recovery Guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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Contents 17 Troubleshooting Storage Array Startup Failure . . . . . 273 Troubleshooting Loss of Communication . . . . . . . . 273 Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 273 Troubleshooting Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . ....
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18 Contents Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 book.book Page 18 Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:13 PM ...
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Introduction 19 1 Introduction NOTE: Unless specified, MD3600i Series represents Dell PowerVault MD3600i and Dell PowerVault MD3620i storage arrays. WARNING: See the Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory Information document for important safet...
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20 Introduction • Mounting rails (2) (optional) • MD3600i Series resource media • Rack Installation Instructions • Getting Started With Your System (provides information on enclosure features, the procedure to set up your enclosure, and ...
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Introduction 21 Other Information You May Need WARNING: See the safety and regulatory information that shipped with your system. Warranty information may be included within this document or as a separate document. NOTE: All the documents, unle...
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22 Introduction book.book Page 22 Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:13 PM ...
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Planning: About Your Storage Array 23 2 Planning: About Your Storage Array Overview The Dell PowerVault MD3600i Series storage array is designed for high availability, offering redundant access to data storage. It supports single and dual RAID cont...
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24 Planning: About Your Storage Array Hardware Features Front-Panel Features and Indicators Figure 2-1. Front-Panel Features and Indicators—Dell PowerVault MD3600i Figure 2-2. Front-Panel Features and Indicators—Dell PowerVault MD3620i 1 2 3 5 ...
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Planning: About Your Storage Array 25 Figure 2-3. Front-Bezel Features and Indicators Item Indicator, Button, or Connector Icon Description 1 Enclosure status LED The enclosure status LED lights when the enclosure power is on. Lights blue during no...
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26 Planning: About Your Storage Array 3 Split mode LED This LED must be unlit as the split mode function is not supported by the MD3600i Series storage arrays. 4 System identification button The system identification button on the front control p...
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Planning: About Your Storage Array 27 Back-Panel Features and Indicators Figure 2-4. Back-Panel Features and Indicators—Dell PowerVault MD3600i Series Storage Array 1 600 W power supply/cooling fan module 2 RAID Controller Module 0 3 RAID Control...
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28 Planning: About Your Storage Array Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns Figure 2-5. Hard Drive Indicators 1 hard-drive activity indicator (green) 2 hard-drive status indicator (green and amber) 1 2 book.book Page 28 Tuesday, September 27, 2011 3:1...
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Planning: About Your Storage Array 29 Power Supply and Cooling Fan Features The MD3600i Series storage array includes two integrated, hot-swappable power supply/cooling fan modules. Both modules must be installed to ensure proper cooling. The syste...
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30 Planning: About Your Storage Array Power Indicator Codes and Features Figure 2-6. Power Indicator Codes and Features Item LED Type Icon Description 1 DC power The LED lights green when the DC output voltage is within the limit. If this LED is o...
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Planning: RAID Controller Modules 31 3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules RAID Controller Modules The RAID controller modules provide high-performance, advanced virtual disk configuration, and fault-tolerant disk subsystem management. Each RAID cont...
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32 Planning: RAID Controller Modules RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features Figure 3-1. MD3600i Series iSCSI RAID Controller Module Item Component Function 1 SAS OUT port Provides SAS connection for cabling to an expansion enclosure. 2 iSCS...
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Planning: RAID Controller Modules 33 8 Controller power LED Lights green when controller is turned on. Off when controller is not turned on. 9 Controller fault LED Lights amber when controller fault detected. Off when controller operating normally. ...
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34 Planning: RAID Controller Modules RAID Controller Module—Additional Features Battery Backup Unit Each RAID controller contains a two-cell Lithium ion nanopolymer battery backup unit (BBU). It provides power to the RAID controller module in the ...
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Planning: RAID Controller Modules 35 System Password Reset To reset a forgotten password, push and hold down the password reset switch for at least 5 seconds. The password is deleted. See Figure 3-1 to locate the password reset switch. The RAID con...
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36 Planning: RAID Controller Modules Write-Through Cache In write-through cache, data is written to the physical disk before completion status is returned to the host operating system. Write-through cache is considered more robust than write-back c...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 37 4 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts This chapter describes the storage array concepts, which help in configuring and operating the Dell PowerVault MD3600i Series s...
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38 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts Physical Disks Only Dell supported 6.0-Gbps SAS physical disks are supported in the storage array. If the storage array detects unsupported physical disks, it marks the disk as unsupporte...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 39 If a disk drive rebuild fails because of a source drive failure or because the drive is too small, the MDSM reports a failure of the physical disk even though the LED state on the drive i...
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40 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 3 Provide host server access. 4 Create mappings to associate the virtual disks with the host servers. NOTE: Host server access must be created before mapping virtual disks. Disk groups a...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 41 RAID Levels RAID levels determine the way in which data is written to physical disks. Different RAID levels provide different levels of accessibility, redundancy, and capacity. Using mult...
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42 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts I/O performance is greatly improved by spreading the I/O load across many physical disks. Although it offers the best performance of any RAID level, RAID 0 lacks data redundancy. Select t...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 43 actual storage. RAID 10 is automatically used when a RAID level of 1 is chosen with four or more physical disks. RAID 10 works well for medium- sized databases or any environment that requ...
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44 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts Foreground Initialization The storage array supports foreground initialization for virtual disks. All access to the virtual disk is blocked during foreground initialization. During foregr...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 45 The storage array tracks the cycle for each disk group independent of other disk groups on the controller and creates a checkpoint. If the media verification operation on a disk group is ...
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46 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts Segment Size Migration Segment size refers to the amount of data (in KB) that the storage array writes on a physical disk in a virtual disk before writing data on the next physical disk. ...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 47 Disk Group Defragmentation Defragmenting consolidates the free capacity in the disk group into one contiguous area. Defragmentation does not change the way in which the data is stored on ...
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48 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts • Segment size migration • Disk group expansion • Disk group defragmentation The priority of each of these operations can be changed to address performance requirements of the enviro...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 49 recognize the migrating metadata and that data is lost. In this case, MD3600i storage array initializes the physical disks and marks them as unconfigured capacity. NOTE: Only disk group...
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50 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts • Migrating virtual disks to a storage array with no existing physical disks— Turn off the destination storage array, when migrating disk groups or a complete set of physical disks fro...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 51 Host Types A host server is a server that accesses a storage array. Host servers are mapped to the virtual disks and use one or more iSCSI initiator ports. Host servers have the following...
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52 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts Snapshots are used to recover previous versions of files that have changed since the snapshot was taken. Snapshots are implemented using a copy on write algorithm, which makes a backup co...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 53 • Restore snapshot virtual disk data to the source virtual disk. Virtual disk copy generates a full copy of data from the source virtual disk to the target virtual disk in a storage arr...
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54 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together You can use the Snapshot Virtual Disk and Virtual Disk Copy premium features together to back up data on the same storage array, or to restore the da...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 55 controller module owner of a virtual disk after it is created. If a host is connected to only one RAID controller module, the preferred owner must manually be assigned to the RAID control...
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56 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts Load Balancing A load balance policy is used to determine which path is used to process I/O. Multiple options for setting the load balance policies let you optimize I/O performance when m...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 57 Monitoring MD3600i Series System Performance You can use the Performance Monitor to select virtual disks and RAID controller modules to monitor or to change the polling interval. Keep the ...
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58 Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts Each time the polling interval elapses, the Performance Monitor queries the storage array again and updates the statistics in the table. 5 Click Start . Values are displayed for the selec...
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Planning: MD3600i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts 59 Table 4-3. Performance Monitor Table Description For more information, see the online help topics. Column Headings Description Devices Controller, virtual disk or storage array total Total ...
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Configuration: Overview 61 5 Configuration: Overview Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) online help contains information on how to use the MDSM application to perform the configuration and management tasks described in this documen...
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62 Configuration: Overview Enterprise Management Window The EMW provides high-level management of storage arrays. When you start MDSM, the EMW is displayed. The EMW has the: • Devices tab—Provides information about the storage arrays. • Setup...
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Configuration: Overview 63 • Obtain information about the firmware inventory including the version of the RAID controller modules, physical disks, and the enclosure management modules (EMMs) in the storage array. Inheriting the System Settings Us...
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64 Configuration: Overview • Disk groups and virtual disks • Logical tab—You can view the organization of the storage array by virtual disks, disk groups, free capacity nodes, and any unconfigured capacity for the storage array. • Physical...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 67 6 Configuration: About Your Storage Array Out-of-Band and In-Band Management You can manage a storage array in two ways: • Out-of-band management • In-band management Out-of-Band Management In the out...
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68 Configuration: About Your Storage Array In-Band Management Using in-band management, commands, events, and data travel through the host-to-controller interface. Unlike out-of-band management, commands and events are mixed with data. NOTE: For ...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 69 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 Automati...
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70 Configuration: About Your Storage Array • In-band management —Enter a name or an IP address for the Host through which the storage array is attached to the network. NOTE: When adding a storage array using in-band management with iSCSI, a ...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 71 • Configure iSCSI host ports—Configure network parameters for each iSCSI host port automatically or specify the configuration information for each iSCSI host port. • Configure the storage array—Cre...
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72 Configuration: About Your Storage Array Locating Storage Arrays You can use the Blink option to physically locate and identify a storage array. NOTE: If the LEDs from the Blink Storage Array operation do not stop blinking, select Stop All Indi...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 73 The Name/Rename Storage Arrays dialog is displayed. 2 Select the relevant storage array from the Select storage array table. If you do not know the name or physical location of the storage array, click ...
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74 Configuration: About Your Storage Array • Select the Setup tab, and then click Set a Storage Array Password . • In the AMW, select the Logical tab, right-click and select Set Password. The Set Password dialog is displayed. 3 If you ...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 75 Viewing Storage Array Connections You can use the View Connections option to view the expansion enclosures connected to the RAID controller module. To view the storage array connections: 1 From the toolbar...
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76 Configuration: About Your Storage Array Removing Storage Arrays You can remove a storage array from the list of managed arrays if you no longer want to manage it from a specific storage management station. Removing a storage array does not affec...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 77 Displaying Failover Alert You can change the failover alert delay for a storage array. The failover alert delay lets you delay the logging of a critical event if the multi-path driver transfers virtual di...
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78 Configuration: About Your Storage Array Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Numbers When an MD1200 series expansion enclosure is connected to an MD3600i Series storage array for the first time, an enclosure ID number is assigned and maintained by th...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 79 Configuring Alert Notifications MDSM can send an alert for any condition on the storage array that requires your attention. Alerts can be sent as e-mail messages or as Simple Network Management Protocol (S...
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80 Configuration: About Your Storage Array • All storage arrays —Select this option to send an e-mail alert about events on all storage arrays. • An individual storage array —Select this option to send an e-mail alert about events that occu...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 81 • Validating an e-mail address—Type the e-mail address in Email address or select the e-mail address in the Configured email addresses area, and click Test . A test e-mail is sent to the selected ...
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82 Configuration: About Your Storage Array Configuring SNMP Alerts To add a management console to the list of addresses configured to receive SNMP alerts: 1 Open the Configure Alerts dialog by performing one of these actions: • In the Tree view ...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 83 • Replacing an SNMP address—Select the SNMP address in the Configured SNMP addresses area, type the replacement community name in Community name and the trap destination in Trap destination , and ...
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84 Configuration: About Your Storage Array A learn cycle starts automatically when you install a new battery module. Learn cycles for batteries in both RAID controller modules in a duplex system occur simultaneously. Learn cycles are scheduled to s...
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Configuration: About Your Storage Array 85 1 In the AMW, select Storage Array Synchronize RAID Controller Module Clocks . 2 If a password is set, in the Enter Password dialog, type the current password for the storage array, and click Syn...
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Configuration: Using iSCSI 87 7 Configuration: Using iSCSI Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication 1 In the AMW, select the Setup tab. 2 Select Manage iSCSI Settings . The Manage iSCSI Settings window is displayed and by default, the Target Au...
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88 Configuration: Using iSCSI Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions Mutual authentication or two-way authentication enables a client or a user to verify themselves to a host server and for the host server to validate itself to the user. This v...
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Configuration: Using iSCSI 89 Initiator CHAP Secret The initiator CHAP secret is set on the host using the iSCSI initiator configuration program provided with the host operating system. If you are using the mutual authentication method, you must de...
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90 Configuration: Using iSCSI Changing the iSCSI Target Identification You cannot change the iSCSI target name, but you can associate an alias with the target for simpler identification. Aliases are useful because the iSCSI target names are not int...
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Configuration: Using iSCSI 91 • Select Specify Configuration , and type the IPv4 address to activate the target discovery. • Type the iSNS server IP address in the IPv6 settings area to activate the target discovery. After you manually enter...
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92 Configuration: Using iSCSI 4 In the Configured Ethernet port speed list, select a network speed for the iSCSI host port. The network speed values in the Configured Ethernet port speed list depend on the maximum speed that the network can s...
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Configuration: Using iSCSI 93 Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings NOTE: Configuring the advanced iSCSI host ports settings is optional. Use the advanced settings for the individual iSCSI host ports to specify the TCP frame size, the virtual LAN, an...
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94 Configuration: Using iSCSI Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session You may want to end an iSCSI session for the following reasons: • Unauthorized access—If an initiator whom you consider to not have access is logged on, you can end the iSCSI sessi...
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Configuration: Using iSCSI 95 Viewing iSCSI Statistics and Setting Baseline Statistics To view iSCSI statistics and set baseline statistics: 1 In the AMW toolbar, select Storage Array iSCSI Statistics . The View iSCSI Statistics window...
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96 Configuration: Using iSCSI Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology If you give access to the wrong host or the wrong host group, you can remove or edit the host topology. Follow the appropriate procedures given in Table 7-3 to correct the host top...
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Configuration: Event Monitor 97 8 Configuration: Event Monitor An event monitor is provided with Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM). The event monitor runs continuously in the background and monitors activity on the managed storage...
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98 Configuration: Event Monitor Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor You can enable or disable the event monitor at any time. Disable the event monitor if you do not want the system to send alert notifications. If you are running the event monito...
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Configuration: About Your Host 99 9 Configuration: About Your Host Configuring Host Access Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) software is comprised of multiple modules. One of these modules is the Host Context Agent, which is insta...
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100 Configuration: About Your Host The host topology is reconfigurable. You can perform the following tasks: • Create a host and assign an alias or user label. • Add or associate a new host port identifier to a particular host. • Change the hos...
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