Dell PowerVault MD3000i User manual

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Dell™ PowerVault™ Modular Disk

Storage Manager User’s Guide

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September 2008

Contents 3

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 Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2 About Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Access Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . 16

Adding Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Automatic Discovery of Storage Arrays . . . . . . 17

Manual Addition of a Storage Array . . . . . . . . 17

Naming Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Removing Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Setting Up Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Storage Array Support Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software

in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software

in Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

3 Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Using the iSCSI Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication . . . . . . . 32

Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions . . . . . 32

Creating CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Changing the iSCSI Target Identification . . . . . . . . 34

Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery (Optional) . . . . 34

Configuring the MD3000i iSCSI Host Ports . . . . . . . 35

Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings . . . . . . . . 35

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Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session . . . . . . . . . . 36

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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Manual Configuration (using SAS HBA) . . . . . . 44

Manual Configuration (using iSCSI) . . . . . . . . 45

Removing Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Host Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Adding a Host to a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Removing a Host From a Host Group . . . . . . . 48

Moving a Host to a Different Host Group . . . . . 48

Removing a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Host Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Host Context Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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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 . . . . . . 60

Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual

Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Changing Controller Ownership of the

Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 62

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Export Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Storage Array Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Changing Media Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . 66

Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Microsoft Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Virtual Disk Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Volume Shadow-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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7 Premium Feature—Snapshot Virtual

Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot

Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Creating the Snapshot Using the Simple

Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

About the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot

Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Creating the Snapshot Using the Advanced

Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 80

Snapshot Repository Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 82

Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . 82

Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a

Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . 84

8 Premium Feature—Virtual Disk Copy . . . 85

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS

Shared Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions . . . . . . . . . . 87

Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual

Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Storage Array Performance During Virtual

Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Setting Copy Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Recopying a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a

Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing Copy Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

9 Premium Feature—32 Partitions . . . . . . . 97

10 Firmware Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM

Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Downloading Both RAID Controller and

NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . 101

Downloading Non-redundant MSCS

NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Downloading Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . . 102

Downloading EMM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Firmware Upgrade to 07.xx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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11 Troubleshooting Problems . . . . . . . . . . 107

Recovery Guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Storage Array Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Device Health Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

SMrepassist Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Support Information Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Unidentified Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Recovering from an Unidentified Storage Array . . . . 110

A Enclosure Hardware Replacement,

Maintenance, and Configuration

Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Removing and Inserting Enclosure Management

Modules on Attached Expansion Enclosures . . . . . 113

Removing an EMM from the Expansion

Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Inserting an EMM into an Expansion

Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Removing and Inserting Physical Disks . . . . . . . . 114

MD3000 Maintenance Considerations . . . . . . . . . 114

MD3000 Cluster Configuration Guidelines for

Standalone Host Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

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