Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series User manual

Dell™ PowerVault™

MD3200i and MD3220i

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

May 2010 Rev. A00

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Contents

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

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

Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault MD3200i

Series Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Dell PowerVault MD3200i

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

Dell PowerVault Modular

Disk Storage Manager

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Configuration Utility 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules. . . . 31

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

RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features . . . 32

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

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

Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 34

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

Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Write-Back Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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

4 Planning: MD3200i Series Storage

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

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

Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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

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

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

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

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Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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

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

Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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

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

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

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

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

Disk Group Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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. . . . . . . . 50

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

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

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

Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 53

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

Preferred and Alternate Controllers and Paths . . 54

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

Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Monitoring MD3200i Series System Performance . . . 56

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5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 60

Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

6 Configuration: About Your

Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . . 63

Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Adding Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Setting Up Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Locating Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Naming or Renaming Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . 68

Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Viewing Storage Array Connections . . . . . . . . 70

Adding/Editing a Comment to an

Existing Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Removing Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Enabling Premium Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Failover Alert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Changing the Cache Settings

on the Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Changing Expansion Enclosure

ID Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Changing the Enclosure Order

in the Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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Setting the Storage Array RAID

Controller Module Clocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

7 Configuration: Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication . . . . . . . 81

Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions. . . . . . 82

Creating CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Initiator CHAP Secret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Target CHAP Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Valid Characters for CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . 83

Changing the iSCSI Target Identification . . . . . . . . 84

Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery Settings . . . . . 84

Configuring the iSCSI Host Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings . . . . . . . . . . 87

Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session . . . . . . . . . . 88

Viewing iSCSI Statistics and

Setting Baseline Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology . . . . . . . . 90

8 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 91

Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 91

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 93

Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Managing Host Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Moving a Host to a Different Host Group . . . . . . 97

Removing a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Host Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Starting or Stopping the Host Context Agent . . . . 99

I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

10 Configuration: Disk Groups

and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 103

Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Changing the Virtual Disk

Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 109

Changing the Segment Size of a Virtual Disk . . . 111

Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 113

Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting Disk . . 113

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Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Saving a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Unlocking Secure Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . . 120

Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 121

Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Enclosure Loss Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . . 126

Modifying and Removing

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Changing Controller Ownership

of the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . 129

Changing the RAID Controller

Module Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . 130

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 131

Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 133

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 135

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 137

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Using Free Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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Using Unconfigured Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . 138

Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Export Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Storage Array Media Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Changing Media Scan Settings. . . . . . . . . . 142

Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . 143

11 Configuration: Premium Feature—

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk

Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Preparing Host Servers to Create the

Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 147

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk

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

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

Preparing Host Servers to Create

the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . 151

Creating the Snapshot

Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 154

Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 159

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