Dell PowerVault NX3500 Service manual

Dell PowerVault

NX3500 System

Administrator’s Guide

Notes and Cautions

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April 2011 Rev. A00

Contents 3

Contents

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

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Terms Used in the Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

PowerVault NX3500 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Key Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

PowerVault NX3500 Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

NAS Controller Pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

PowerVault MD Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

BPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

iSCSI Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Internal Network A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Internal Network B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

LAN/Client Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

2 Setting Up Your PowerVault

NX3500 Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Setting Up the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Choosing the Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Completing the NAS System

Setup Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

4Contents

Preparing Your Management Station. . . . . . . . 36

Preparing Your MD Storage Solution . . . . . . . . . . 36

Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . . 42

Running the PowerVault

NAS Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Installing the PowerVault NAS

Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Launching the PowerVault NAS

Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

NAS Manager Configuration Wizard . . . . . . . . 54

Accessing the NAS Manager

Web Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

PowerVault NAS Manager

Configuration Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

3 Accessing the NAS Manager . . . . . . . . 59

Accessing PowerVault NAS Manager . . . . . . . . . 59

Browser Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

NAS Manager Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Action Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Admin Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Admin Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Search Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Contents 5

4 Monitoring PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . . . 63

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Network Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Over Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Client Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

CIFS Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Component Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Space Utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Quota Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Active Remote Replication Jobs . . . . . . . . . . 76

Remote Replication Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

5 PowerVault NX3500 Event Monitoring . . . . 77

Event Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Defining Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Display Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Sort Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Filter Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

6 Using Volumes, Shares, and Quotas . . . . 81

NAS Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

6Contents

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Choosing an Allocation Strategy . . . . . . . . . . 82

Managing NAS Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Adding a NAS Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Modifying a NAS Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing a NAS Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Shares and Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Managing NFS Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Managing CIFS Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Setting Access Control Lists and Share

Level Permissions on DSFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

CIFS Storage Administrator Account . . . . . . . . 87

Active Directory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Setting ACLs or SLPs on a CIFS Share . . . . . . . 87

Access Using CIFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Configuring CIFS Shares Level Permissions . . . . 90

Removing a CIFS Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Resetting Local Administrator Password. . . . . . 91

Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Default Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

User/Group Specific Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Quota Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

7 Protecting Data on

PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

NAS Block Level Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Activating Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Setting Up a Replication Partner . . . . . . . . . . 97

Adding a Replication Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Managing Replication Policies . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Contents 7

Deleting a Replication Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Removing a Replication Partner . . . . . . . . . . 98

Managing Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Snapshots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Activating Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Creating a Snapshot (Without a Policy) . . . . . . 99

Adding or Modifying a Snapshot Policy . . . . . . 99

Restoring a NAS Volume From a Snapshot . . . . 100

Deleting a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Backing Up and Restoring Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Supported Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Enabling NDMP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Changing NDMP Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Modifying DMA Servers List . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Specifying NAS Volume for Backup . . . . . . . . 103

Displaying Active NDMP Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Terminating an Active NDMP Job . . . . . . . . . 104

Protecting Data on PowerVault NX3500. . . . . . . . . 104

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Supported Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Adding Antivirus Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Enabling Antivirus Support Per CIFS Share . . . . 105

8 Managing the PowerVault NX3500 . . . . 107

Managing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Managing Client Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Viewing the Defined Subnets. . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Modifying a Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Removing a Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

8Contents

Managing Administrator Users . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Adding an Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Changing the Administrator’s Password . . . . . 111

Modifying an Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Modifying an Administrator's

E-Mail Filter Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Removing an Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Managing Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Adding Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Modifying Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Deleting Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Changing the Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Managing Local Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Adding a Local Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Modifying a Local Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Deleting a Local Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Configuring an Identity

Management Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Enabling User Authentication

Through an NIS Database . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Enabling User Authentication

Through an LDAP Database . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Disabling the Use of an External

UNIX Identity Management Database . . . . . . 118

Configuring Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Synchronizing PowerVault NX3500 With the

Active Directory Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Configuring the Active Directory Service. . . . . 119

Network Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Accessing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Contents 9

Performance and Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . 121

Removing an NTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Synchronizing PowerVault NX3500 With

a Local NTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Configuring DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Adding DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Removing DNS Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Adding DNS Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Deleting DNS Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Managing Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Adding Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Modifying a Static Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Deleting a Static Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Defining File System Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Configuring CIFS Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Configuring General CIFS Parameters . . . . . . . 125

Configuring Advanced CIFS Parameters . . . . . . 126

Configuring System Time Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 127

Changing the Time Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Manually Configuring the

Current Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

9 Command Line Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Accessing the CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

CLI Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

10 Contents

10 Maintaining the PowerVault NX3500 . . . 135

Shutting Down the PowerVault NX3500 System. . . . 135

Turning On the PowerVault NX3500 System . . . . . . 136

Installing the Service Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Expanding the PowerVault NX3500

Storage Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Adding LUNs to PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . . . 138

Running Diagnostics on PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . 139

Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Offline Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Reinstalling the PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . . . . . 141

Replacing a PowerVault NX3500 Controller. . . . . . 142

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Detaching the PowerVault NX3500 Controller . . 143

Removing and Replacing the PowerVault

NX3500 Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Attaching the PowerVault

NX3500 Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

11 Internationalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Unicode Client Support Overview . . . . . . . . . . . 147

NFS Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

CIFS Clients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Unicode Configuration Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 148

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