Dell Computer Drive U, V, W

Index 113

U

unconfigured capacity,53

utilities

hot_add, 58

V

virtual disk, 53-54

access, 15

deleting in Linux, 55

name,78-79

recopy,9 0

registering, 57

source,67, 79

virtual disk copy,12, 87, 90

examples, 84

restrictions, 86

stop, 90

W

warranty,14

Contents

Main Notes and Notices ____________________ Contents 1 About This Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2 About Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3 Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4 Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 5 About Your Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 6 Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . 53 7 Premium FeatureSnapshot Virtual Disks 67 8 Premium FeatureVirtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 9 Firmware Downloads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 10 Troubleshooting Problems. . . . . . . . . . . 101 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Page About This Guide User Interface Summary Tab Configure Tab Modify Tab Tools Tab iSCSI Tab Support Tab Other Information You May Need About Your Storage Array Access Virtual Disk Out-of-Band and In-Band Management Adding Storage Arrays Automatic Discovery of Storage Arrays Manual Addition of a Storage Array Naming Storage Arrays Removing Storage Arrays Setting Up Your Storage Array Page Storage Array Support Data Setting a Password Password Guidelines Resetting a Password Connecting the Serial Cable System Setup for Password Reset Reset Password Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Numbers Configuring Alert Notifications Configuring E-mail Alerts Page Configuring SNMP Alerts Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software in Windows Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software in Linux Page Page Using iSCSI Using the iSCSI Tab Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions Creating CHAP Secrets Page Changing the iSCSI Target Identification Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery Configuring the MD3000i iSCSI Host Ports Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session Viewing iSCSI Statistics and Setting Baseline Statistics 38 . Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology Page Page Event Monitor Enabling the Event Monitor Disabling the Event Monitor About Your Host Configuring Host Access Automatic Configuration Manual Configuration (using SAS HBA) Manual Configuration (using iSCSI) Removing Host Access Host Groups Creating a Host Group Adding a Host to a Host Group Removing a Host From a Host Group Moving a Host to a Different Host Group Removing a Host Group Host Topology Host Context Agent I/O Data Path Protection Failover with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Page Disk Groups and Virtual Disks Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks Automatic Configuration Manual Configuration Page Page Hot Spare Drive Protection Automatically Configuring Hot Spares Manually Configuring Hot Spares Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping Changing Controller Ownership of the Virtual Disk Storage Partitioning Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion Disk Group Expansion Virtual Disk Expansion Storage Array Media Scan Changing Media Scan Settings Suspending the Media Scan Microsoft Services Virtual Disk Service Volume Shadow-Copy Service Page Premium FeatureSnapshot Virtual Disks Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Simple Path About the Simple Path Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path Page Creating the Snapshot Using the Simple Path Page Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Advanced Path About the Advanced Path Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path Page Creating the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path Page Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names sequence-number source-virtual disk-name sequence-number Snapshot Repository Capacity Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Premium FeatureVirtual Disk Copy Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS Shared Disk Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions Creating a Virtual Disk Copy Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual Disk Copy Copying the Virtual Disk Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy Setting Copy Priority Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy Recopying a Virtual Disk Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a Virtual Disk Recopying the Virtual Disk Removing Copy Pairs Page Firmware Downloads Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM Packages Downloading Both RAID Controller and NVSRAM Firmware Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware Downloading Non-redundant MSCS NVSRAM Firmware Downloading Physical Disk Firmware Downloading EMM Firmware Page Troubleshooting Problems Recovery Guru Storage Array Profile Device Health Conditions SMrepassist Utility mount-point-path> Support Information Package Unidentified Devices Recovering from an Unidentified Storage Array Page Page Enclosure Hardware Replacement, Maintenance, and Configuration Considerations Removing and Inserting Enclosure Management Modules on Attached Expansion Enclosures Removing an EMM from the Expansion Enclosure Inserting an EMM into an Expansion Enclosure Removing and Inserting Physical Disks MD3000 Maintenance Considerations MD3000 Cluster Configuration Guidelines for Standalone Host Servers Page Index A B C D I L M N P U V W