Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series User manual

Dell PowerVault MD3200

and MD3220 Storage Arrays

Owner’s Manual

Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series

Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001

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Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series

Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001

2011 - 09 Rev. A01

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Contents 3

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault MD3200

Series Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

MD3200 Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dell PowerVault Modular

Disk Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Other Information you May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2 Planning: About Your Storage Array . . . . 23

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Hardware Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . 24

Back Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . 27

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Power Supply and Cooling Fan Features . . . . . . . . 29

Power Indicator Codes and Features . . . . . . . . . . 30

3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules . . . . 31

RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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RAID Controller Module Connectors

and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 34

Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 35

System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Write-Back Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Write-Through Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

4 Planning: MD3200 Series Storage

Array Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, and Disk Groups . . . . . 37

Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Physical Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Self-Monitoring Analysis and

Reporting Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Virtual Disks and Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Virtual Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

RAID Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

RAID Level Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Segment Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Virtual Disk Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

RAID Level Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

RAID Background Operations Priority . . . . . . . . . 47

Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming. . . . . . . . 48

Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Host Server-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . 51

Host Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 52

Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 54

Multi-Path Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Preferred and Alternate Controllers

and Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Virtual Disk Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Monitoring MD3200 Series System

Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 62

Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

6 Configuration: About Your

Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . . 65

Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Adding Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Setting Up Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Locating Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Naming or Renaming Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . 70

Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Viewing Storage Array Connections . . . . . . . . 72

Adding/Editing a Comment to an

Existing Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Removing Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Enabling Premium Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Failover Alert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Changing the Cache Settings on the

Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Number . . . . 75

Changing the Enclosure Order in the

Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

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Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller

Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

7 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 83

Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 84

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

8 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . . 85

Configuring Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Managing Host Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Moving a Host to a Different Host Group. . . . . . 89

Removing a Host Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Host Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Starting or Stopping the Host

Context Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

9 Configuration: Disk Groups and

Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . 95

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Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Changing the Virtual Disk

Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 101

Changing the Segment Size of

a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 105

Physical Disk Security with Self

Encrypting Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Saving a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Validate Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Unlocking Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 113

Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . 113

Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . 114

Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Global Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Enclosure Loss Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . 119

Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual

Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Changing Controller Ownership of the

Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . 122

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Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 124

Removing a Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping

Using Linux DMMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 127

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 129

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 131

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using Free Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using Unconfigured Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Export Disk Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Storage Array Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Changing Media Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . 136

Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

10 Configuration: Premium Feature—

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 140

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Common Reasons for Scheduling a

Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Guidelines for Creating

Snapshot Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Enabling and Disabling Snapshot

Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using

the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Preparing Host Servers to Create the

Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 143

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Preparing Host Servers to Create the

Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . 147

Creating the Snapshot Using

the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 151

Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 155

Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a

Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 157

Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Rules and Guidelines for Performing a

Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Protecting Against a Failed

Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Previous Versions of the

MD Storage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Starting a Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . 159

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