Dell PowerVault MD3220 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

May 2010 Rev. A00

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Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault

MD3200 Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Dell PowerVault MD3200

Series

Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk

Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Other Information you May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2 Planning: About Your Storage Array . . . . 21

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Hardware Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . 22

Back Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . 25

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Power Supply and Cooling Fan Features . . . . . . . . 27

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules . . . . 29

RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

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RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features . . . 30

RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 32

Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 33

System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Write-Back Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Write-Through Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

4 Planning: MD3200 Series Storage

Array Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, and Disk Groups . . . . . 35

Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Physical Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting

Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Virtual Disks and Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Virtual Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

RAID Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

RAID Level Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Segment Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Virtual Disk Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Cycle Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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

Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

RAID Level Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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

Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 44

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Disk Group Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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

RAID Background Operations Priority . . . . . . . . . 45

Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming. . . . . . . . 46

Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Host Server-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . 49

Host Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 50

Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 52

Multi-Path Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Preferred and Alternate Controllers

and Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Virtual Disk Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Monitoring MD3200 Series System Performance . . . . 55

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Number . . . . 73

Changing the Enclosure Order in the

Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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

Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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

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

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Setting the Storage Array RAID Controlle

r Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

7 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 81

Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 82

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

8 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . . 83

Configuring Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Removing Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Managing Host Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Moving a Host to a Different Host Group. . . . . . 87

Removing a Host Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Host Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Starting or Stopping the Host Context Agent. . . . 89

I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

9 Configuration: Disk Groups and

Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . 93

Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Changing the Virtual Disk Modification

Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . . 99

Changing the Segment Size of a Virtual Disk . . . 101

Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 103

Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting

Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Saving a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Unlocking Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 110

Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . 111

Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . 111

Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Global Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Enclosure Loss Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . 117

Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual

Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Changing Controller Ownership of the Virtua

l Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . 120

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . 122

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Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership

of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . 124

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 125

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 128

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using Free Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Using Unconfigured Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Export Disk Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Storage Array Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Changing Media Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . 133

Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

10 Configuration: Premium Feature—

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Preparing Host Servers to Create the

Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . 137

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Preparing Host Servers to Create

the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . 141

Creating the Snapshot Using the

Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 145

Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 149

Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 150

Preparing Host Servers to Re-create

a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . 152

11 Configuration: Premium Feature—

Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS

Shared Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions . . . . . . . . . 155

Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Creating a Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Before you Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Virtual Disk Copy and Modification

Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Create Copy Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Failed Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Preferred RAID Controller Module Ownership . . . . 158

Failed RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

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