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PowerVault MD3620f

Brand: Dell | Category: Desktop
PowerVault MD3620f first page preview

PowerVault MD3620f

Brand: Dell | Category: Storage
PowerVault MD3620f first page preview

PowerVault MD3620f

Brand: Dell | Category: Storage
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  17. Contents
  18. Introduction
  19. Inside the Box of the Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series Storage Array
  20. Other Information You May Need
  21. Planning: About Your Storage Array
  22. Hardware Features
  23. Back Panel Features and Indicators
  24. Hard–Drive Indicator Patterns
  25. Power Supply and Cooling Fan Features
  26. Power Indicator Codes and Features
  27. Planning: RAID Controller Modules
  28. RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features
  29. Host Channel LED Link/Rate Indications
  30. Storage Array Thermal Shutdown
  31. Write–Back Cache
  32. Interoperability of 2 Gbps, 4 Gbps, and 8 Gbps Devices
  33. Array Terms and Concepts
  34. Physical Disks
  35. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
  36. Virtual Disk States
  37. RAID Levels
  38. Segment Size
  39. Background Initialization
  40. Cycle Time
  41. Disk Group Operations
  42. Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion
  43. RAID Background Operations Priority
  44. Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming
  45. Disk Roaming
  46. Host Types
  47. Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk
  48. Virtual Disk Recovery
  49. Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together
  50. Virtual Disk Ownership
  51. Monitoring MD3600f Series System Performance
  52. Configuration: Overview
  53. Enterprise Management Window
  54. Array Management Window
  55. Storage Array
  56. Storage Arrays
  57. Setting Up Your Storage Array
  58. Locating Storage Arrays
  59. Setting a Password
  60. Viewing Storage Array Connections
  61. Adding/Editing a Comment to an Existing Storage Array
  62. Enabling Premium Features
  63. Changing the Cache Settings on the Storage Array
  64. Changing the Enclosure Order in the Physical Pane
  65. Configuring E–mail Alerts
  66. Configuring SNMP Alerts
  67. Battery Settings
  68. Module Clocks
  69. Configuration: Event Monitor
  70. Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor
  71. Configuration: About Your Host
  72. Using the Mappings Tab
  73. Removing Host Access
  74. Creating a Host Group
  75. Moving a Host to a Different Host Group
  76. Host Topology
  77. I/O Data Path Protection
  78. Managing Host Port Identifiers
  79. Virtual Disks
  80. Creating Disk Groups
  81. Locating a Disk Group
  82. Priority
  83. Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings
  84. Virtual Disk
  85. Changing the I/O Type
  86. Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type
  87. Physical Disk Security With Self Encrypting Disk
  88. Creating a Security Key
  89. Changing a Security Key
  90. Saving a Security Key
  91. Validate Security Key
  92. Unlocking Secure Physical Disks
  93. Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks
  94. Hot Spares and Rebuild
  95. Hot Spare Drive Protection
  96. Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
  97. Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings
  98. Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
  99. Changing Controller Ownership of the Virtual Disk
  100. Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
  101. Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group
  102. Removing a Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping Using Linux DMMP
  103. Restricted Mappings
  104. Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group
  105. Storage Partitioning
  106. Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion
  107. Virtual Disk Expansion
  108. Using Unconfigured Capacity
  109. Exporting a Disk Group
  110. Importing a Disk Group
  111. Storage Array Media Scan
  112. Suspending the Media Scan
  113. Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks
  114. Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk
  115. Guidelines for Creating Snapshot Schedules
  116. Schedules
  117. About the Simple Path
  118. Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path
  119. Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Advanced Path
  120. Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path
  121. Creating the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path
  122. Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names
  123. Snapshot Repository Capacity
  124. Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk
  125. Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk
  126. Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks
  127. Rules and Guidelines for Performing a Snapshot Rollback
  128. Protecting Against a Failed Snapshot Rollback
  129. Resuming a Snapshot Rollback
  130. Canceling a Snapshot Rollback
  131. Feature—Virtual Disk Copy
  132. Types of Virtual Disk Copies
  133. Online Copy
  134. Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS Shared Disk
  135. Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions
  136. Creating a Virtual Disk Copy
  137. Operations
  138. Preferred RAID Controller Module Ownership
  139. Copying the Virtual Disk
  140. Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy
  141. Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy
  142. Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a Virtual Disk
  143. Re-Copying a Virtual Disk
  144. Removing Copy Pairs
  145. Feature—Upgrading to High Performance Tier
  146. Configuration: Premium Feature Remote Replication
  147. Activating Remote Replication
  148. RAID Levels for Replication Repository Virtual Disks
  149. Using Remote Replication With Other Features
  150. Replication
  151. Required Switch Zoning Configurations
  152. Setting Up and Managing Remote Replication
  153. Repository Virtual Disks From the Storage Array
  154. Repository Virtual Disks From an Existing Disk Group
  155. Creating a Remote Replication
  156. Selecting the Secondary Virtual Disk
  157. Setting Synchronization Priority and Synchronization Method
  158. Completing the Remote Replication
  159. RAID Controller Module Ownership/Preferred Path
  160. Viewing the Properties Pane
  161. Viewing the Physical Components or Logical Elements of the Primary Virtual Disk
  162. Virtual Disk Status Icons
  163. Resynchronizing Virtual Disks
  164. Changing Synchronization Priority and Method
  165. Unsynchronized Virtual Disks
  166. Automatically Resynchronizing Virtual Disks
  167. Secondary Virtual Disks
  168. Promoting the Secondary Virtual Disk or Demoting the Primary Virtual Disk
  169. Resuming a Remote Replication
  170. Testing Communication Between the Primary and Secondary Virtual Disks
  171. Deleting a Virtual Disk From a Replicated Pair in a Storage Array
  172. Deleting a Secondary Virtual Disk
  173. Deleting a Secondary Virtual Disk in a Replicated Pair From a Storage Array
  174. Deactivating the Remote Replication on the Storage Array
  175. Disabling the Remote Replication Premium Feature
  176. Multipath for Linux
  177. Using DM Multipathing Devices
  178. Device Mapper Configuration Steps
  179. Limitations and Known Issues
  180. Troubleshooting
  181. Downloads
  182. Downloading Both RAID Controller and NVSRAM Firmware
  183. Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware
  184. Downloading Physical Disk Firmware
  185. Downloading MD1200 Series Expansion Module EMM Firmware
  186. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)
  187. Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors
  188. Components
  189. Front Bezel (Optional)
  190. Hard Drives
  191. Installing a Hard-Drive Blank
  192. Installing a Hard Drive
  193. Hard-Drive Carrier
  194. RAID Controller Module
  195. Installing a RAID Controller Module Blank
  196. Removing a RAID Controller Module
  197. Installing a RAID Controller Module
  198. Opening the RAID Controller Module
  199. Closing the RAID Controller Module
  200. RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit
  201. Installing the RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit
  202. Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module
  203. Installing a Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module
  204. Control Panel
  205. Installing the Control Panel
  206. Backplane
  207. Installing the Backplane
  208. Management: Firmware Inventory
  209. Management: System Interfaces
  210. Array Software
  211. Storage Array Support Data
  212. Automatically Collect the Support Bundle Data
  213. Collecting the Physical Disk Data
  214. Event Log
  215. Recovery Guru
  216. Viewing the Logical Associations
  217. Viewing the Physical Associations
  218. using go to
  219. Recovering From an Unresponsive Storage Array Condition
  220. Locating a Physical Disk
  221. Capturing the State Information
  222. SMrepassist Utility
  223. Unidentified Devices
  224. Starting or Restarting the Host Context Agent Software
  225. Troubleshooting: Your Array
  226. Troubleshooting External Connections
  227. Troubleshooting Array Cooling Problems
  228. Troubleshooting Expansion Enclosure Management Modules
  229. Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules
  230. Troubleshooting Hard Drives
  231. Troubleshooting Array and Expansion Enclosure Connections
  232. Troubleshooting a Wet Storage Array
  233. Troubleshooting a Damaged Array
  234. getting help
  235. Table Of Contents
PowerVault MD3620f first page preview

PowerVault MD3620f

Brand: Dell | Category: Storage
Table of contents
  1. notes and cautions
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  9. About the Command Line Interface
  10. How to Use the Command Line Interface
  11. Usage Notes
  12. CLI Commands
  13. Command Line Parameters
  14. Formatting Considerations
  15. Exit Status
  16. Usage Examples
  17. About the Script Commands
  18. Script Command Structure
  19. Script Command Synopsis
  20. Recurring Syntax Elements
  21. Usage Guidelines
  22. Adding Comments to a Script File
  23. Configuring a Storage Array
  24. modifying your configuration
  25. using the snapshot feature
  26. virtual disk
  27. creating a snapshot virtual disk
  28. changing snapshot virtual disk settings
  29. stopping and deleting a snapshot virtual disk
  30. re-creating the snapshot virtual disk
  31. using the virtual disk copy feature
  32. creating a virtual disk copy
  33. viewing virtual disk copy properties
  34. changing virtual disk copy settings
  35. recopying a virtual disk
  36. stopping a virtual disk copy
  37. removing copy pairs
  38. storage partitioning
  39. using the remote replication premium feature
  40. how remote replication works
  41. replication relationships
  42. creating a remote replicated pair
  43. performance considerations
  44. changing remote replication settings
  45. removing a replication relationship
  46. interaction with other premium features
  47. virtual disk expansion
  48. maintaining a storage array
  49. removing persistent reservations
  50. performance tuning
  51. troubleshooting and diagnostics
  52. recovery operations
  53. initializing a virtual disk
  54. redistributing virtual disks
  55. script commands
  56. command formatting rules
  57. firmware compatibility levels
  58. enclosure commands
  59. iscsi commands
  60. raid controller module commands
  61. snapshot commands
  62. virtual disk commands
  63. commands listed alphabetically
  64. clear physical disk port statistics
  65. clear storage array configuration
  66. clear virtual disk reservations
  67. create host
  68. create storage array security key
  69. create virtual disk copy
  70. deactivate remote replication
  71. delete disk group
  72. delete host port
  73. diagnose raid controller module
  74. download physical disk firmware
  75. recopy virtual disk copy
  76. re-create snapshot
  77. remove remote replication
  78. remove virtual disk copy
  79. repair virtual disk consistency
  80. replace physical disk
  81. reset raid controller module
  82. reset storage array battery install date
  83. reset storage array iscsi baseline
  84. revive disk group
  85. revive physical disk
  86. save raid controller module nvsram
  87. save storage array iscsi statistics
  88. set enclosure identification
  89. start physical disk initialize
  90. start virtual disk initialization
  91. stop enclosure blink
  92. sample script files
  93. configuration script example 1
  94. configuration script example 2
  95. cli command updates
  96. updated commands
PowerVault MD3620f first page preview

PowerVault MD3620f

Brand: Dell | Category: Storage
PowerVault MD3620f first page preview

PowerVault MD3620f

Brand: Dell | Category: Storage
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