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Dell™ PowerVault™ 750N and 755N NAS Appliances

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE

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June 2001 P/N 7E309 Rev. A00

Contents 3

Contents

1Introduction

The Boot Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

System Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Administrator User Name and Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Basic Configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Configuring Your System With DHCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Configuring Your System Using a Serial Connection . . . . . . 1-4

Configuring Your System Using the Kick-Start Utility . . . . . 1-6

Disabling the Kick-Start Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14

2NAS Manager

Basic Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Status Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

How To Find Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Using Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Managing Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Adding a Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Modifying Share Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Removing a Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Removing a Protocol From the Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Using the PowerVault Advanced Administration Menu . . . . . 2-7

Retrieving Your Service Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Contents 4

Disk Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Enabling Disk Quota Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Adding Disk Quota Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Modifying Quota Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Removing Disk Quota Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Using Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Managing Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Using Other Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Shutting Down the NAS Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Managing Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Creating a Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Preparing a Volume for Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Expanding a Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15

Deleting a Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

Viewing Volume Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-16

Managing Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Listing Available Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Rescanning for Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Creating a Hotspare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Freeing a Hotspare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Forcing a Disk Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Viewing Disk Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

3Advanced Disk and Volume Management

Using Array Manager

Array Manager Common Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Creating a New Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Deleting an Existing Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Expanding an Existing Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Contents 5

Array Manager Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Left Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Right Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4

Launching Array Manager From the NAS Manager . . . . . . . 3-4

Managing Disk Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Recommended Virtual Disk Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Deleting Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

Reconfiguring and Managing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 3-7

Array Disk Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Rebuild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10

Assign Global Hot Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Unassign Global Hot Spare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Online Array Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11

Offline Array Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Prepare to Remove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

General Controller Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Rescan Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Flush Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Enable Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Disable Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Rebuild Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

Disk Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

Writing a Disk Signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-14

Upgrading a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk . . . . . . . . . . 3-15

Reactivating Dynamic Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Merging Foreign Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Volume Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Volume Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17

Contents 6

Checking Partition or Volume Properties . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17

Formatting a Partition or Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17

Delete a Partition or Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18

Working With Dynamic Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18

Creating a Dynamic Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-18

Extending a Dynamic Simple or Spanned Volume . . . . . . . 3-20

4System Management

Dell OpenManage Remote Assistant Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Alert Log Messages From Dell OpenManage

Server Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Configuring SNMP Community Properties . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Configuring SNMP Agent Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

5System Recovery, Backup, and Restore

Recovery From System Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Reinstalling the Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Initial System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

System State Backup and Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Backing Up System State Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Restoring System State Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Windows 2000 Backup and Recovery Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Supported Third-Party Backup Software . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Third-Party Backup Software for Network Backups . . . . . . . 5-7

Installing Network Accelerator Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

Third-Party Backup Software for Local Backups . . . . . . . . 5-7

Installing VERITAS Backup Exec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

Installing ARCserve 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Contents 7

Backing Up Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Limitations on Backing Up Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . 5-11

Restoring Persistent Images From Tape Backup . . . . . . . . 5-11

Installing Tape Device Drivers for Windows 2000 Backup

and Recovery Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12

Installing Drivers for PowerVault Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . 5-12

Installing Drivers for PowerVault Tape Drive

Media Changers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13

6Dell ActiveArchive™

Introduction to Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Cache File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Cache Thresholds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Persistent Image Retention Weights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Persistent Image Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Storing Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

Accessing Directories, Folders, and Files . . . . . . . . . . . 6-4

Allowing User’s Access to Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . 6-4

Preparing Your Volumes for Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . 6-5

Scheduling Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Displaying the List of Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Adding Persistent Images to the Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Deleting a Persistent Image Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Editing the Properties of a Persistent Image’s Schedule . . . . 6-7

Using Persistent Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Taking a New Persistent Image on Demand . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Deleting a Persistent Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Setting Persistent Image Retention Weights . . . . . . . . . . 6-9

Configuring the Persistent Image Global Settings . . . . . . . 6-10

Configuring Persistent Image Volume Settings . . . . . . . . 6-10

8Contents

Accessing Stored Persistent Images in ActiveArchive . . . . . 6-11

Restoring Volumes From an Existing Persistent Image . . . . . 6-12

7Advanced Features

Installing Multilanguage User Interface

(MUI) Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Installing and Configuring Support for Other Languages . . . . 7-4

Network Adapter Teaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

Creating Network Teams Using the Broadcom Advanced

Server Control Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6

Removing an Adapter From a Network Team . . . . . . . . . . 7-7

Changing the Network Team Mode Using the

Broadcom Advanced Server Control Suite . . . . . . . . . . . 7-8

Creating Network Teams Using the Intel PROSet Utility . . . . 7-8

Removing Network Teams Using the Intel PROSet Utility . . . 7-9

Removing an Adapter From a Network Team Using the

Intel PROSet Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-9

Changing the Network Team Mode Using the Intel PROSet

Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Services for UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Server for Network File System (NFS) . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11

UNIX Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11

Telnet Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

Services For UNIX MMC Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13

ActiveState ActivePerl 5.6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13

User Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13

Basic Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-15

File Server for Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Services for NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-18

Configuring the NWLink IPX/SPX Compatible Protocol . . . 7-18

Contents 9

Microsoft Directory Synchronization Services . . . . . . . . . 7-19

Windows 2000 MSDSS Domain Controller . . . . . . . . . . 7-19

Outline of the Deployment Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25

Upgrading to a Multiprocessor System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26

Using Secured Socket Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27

Introduction to SSL Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27

Server Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27

PowerVault 750N/755N Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-28

Using a Custom Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-28

Obtaining a Server Certificate From a

Certification Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-28

Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29

Minimum Hardware and Connection Requirements . . . . . . 7-30

Software Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-30

Configuring Console Redirection on the System . . . . . . . . 7-30

Configuring Console Redirection on the Client System . . . . . 7-31

Rebooting the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32

Configuring Special Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32

Defragmenting a Volume Containing Persistent Images . . . . . 7-36

8Online Server Diagnostics

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2

Installing the Online Server Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-3

Installing the JAVA Runtime Environment . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Using the Online Server Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Starting the Online Server Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Specifying a Target Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4

Configuring Online Server Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

Running Online Server Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5

10 Contents

Exiting Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

Learning About Diagnostic Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-6

9Troubleshooting

Tables

Table 1-1. Kick-Start Configuration Overview . . . . . . . 1-7

Table 7-1. Categories of UNIX Utilities . . . . . . . . . 7-11

Table 7-2. Terminal Emulation Types . . . . . . . . . . . 7-30

Table 7-3. VT100/220 Supported Escape

Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-33

Table 7-4. ANSI Supported Escape Sequences . . . . . . 7-34

Table 7-5. Additional Escape Sequences . . . . . . . . . 7-35

Table 9-1. Troubleshooting Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9-2

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