Dell PowerVault MD3620i User manual

Dell PowerVault MD3600i and

MD3620i 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 MD3600i

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

MD3600i Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk

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

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk

Configuration Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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

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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: MD3600i 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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

Host Server-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . 50

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

Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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

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

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

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

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

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

Preferred and Alternate Controllers

and Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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

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

Monitoring MD3600i 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . . 67

Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Adding Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Setting Up Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Locating Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Naming or Renaming Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . 72

Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Viewing Storage Array Connections . . . . . . . . 75

Adding/Editing a Comment to an

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

Removing Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Enabling Premium Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Displaying Failover Alert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Changing the Cache Settings on

the Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Changing Expansion Enclosure

ID Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Changing the Enclosure Order in the

Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

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Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller

Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

7 Configuration: Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication . . . . . . . 87

Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions. . . . . . 88

Creating CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Initiator CHAP Secret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Target CHAP Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Valid Characters for CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . 89

Changing the iSCSI Target Identification . . . . . . . . 90

Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery Settings . . . . . 90

Configuring the iSCSI Host Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings . . . . . . . . . . 93

Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session . . . . . . . . . . 94

Viewing iSCSI Statistics and Setting

Baseline Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology . . . . . . . . 96

8 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 97

Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 98

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

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9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 99

Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Removing Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Managing Host Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Moving a Host to a Different

Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Removing a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Host Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Starting or Stopping the Host

Context Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

10 Configuration: Disk Groups

and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 111

Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Changing the Virtual Disk

Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 117

Changing the Segment Size of a

Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . . 121

Physical Disk Security with Self

Encrypting Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Saving a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Validate Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Unlocking Secure Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . . 129

Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 130

Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Enclosure Loss Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . . 136

Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual

Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Changing Controller Ownership of the

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

Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . 139

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 141

Removing a Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping

Using Linux DMMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 144

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 146

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Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . 148

Disk Group Expansion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using Free Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Using Unconfigured Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . 149

Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Export Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Storage Array Media Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Changing Media Scan Settings. . . . . . . . . . 153

Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . 154

11 Configuration: Premium Feature—

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 157

Common Reasons for Scheduling a

Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Guidelines for Creating Snapshot

Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Enabling and Disabling Snapshot

Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using

the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Preparing Host Servers to Create the

Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 160

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