Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series Bedienungsanleitung

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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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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your computer.

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instructions are not followed.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal

injury, or death.

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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 MD3200

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

MD3200 Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dell PowerVault Modular

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

Other Information you May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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

3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules . . . . 31

RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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RAID Controller Module Connectors

and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 34

Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 35

System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Write-Back Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Write-Through Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

4 Planning: MD3200 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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

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

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

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

Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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

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

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

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

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

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

Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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

Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Host Server-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . 51

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

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

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

Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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

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

Preferred and Alternate Controllers

and Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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

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

Monitoring MD3200 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . . 65

Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Adding Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Setting Up Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Locating Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Naming or Renaming Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . 70

Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Viewing Storage Array Connections . . . . . . . . 72

Adding/Editing a Comment to an

Existing Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Removing Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Enabling Premium Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Failover Alert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Changing the Cache Settings on the

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

Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Number . . . . 75

Changing the Enclosure Order in the

Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

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Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller

Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

7 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 83

Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 84

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

8 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . . 85

Configuring Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Managing Host Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Moving a Host to a Different Host Group. . . . . . 89

Removing a Host Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Host Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Starting or Stopping the Host

Context Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

9 Configuration: Disk Groups and

Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . 95

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Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Changing the Virtual Disk

Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 101

Changing the Segment Size of

a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 105

Physical Disk Security with Self

Encrypting Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Saving a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Validate Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Unlocking Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 113

Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . 113

Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . 114

Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Global Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Enclosure Loss Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . 119

Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual

Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Changing Controller Ownership of the

Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . 122

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Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 124

Removing a Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping

Using Linux DMMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 127

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 129

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 131

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using Free Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Using Unconfigured Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Export Disk Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Storage Array Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Changing Media Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . 136

Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

10 Configuration: Premium Feature—

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 140

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Common Reasons for Scheduling a

Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Guidelines for Creating

Snapshot Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Enabling and Disabling Snapshot

Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using

the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Preparing Host Servers to Create the

Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 143

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Preparing Host Servers to Create the

Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . 147

Creating the Snapshot Using

the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 151

Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 155

Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a

Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 157

Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Rules and Guidelines for Performing a

Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Protecting Against a Failed

Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Previous Versions of the

MD Storage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Starting a Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . 159

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Andere Handbücher für PowerVault MD3200 Series

Dieses Handbuch passt für folgende Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Andere Dell Lagerung Handbücher

Dell

Dell PowerVault 100T Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell SC180 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3260i Series Kurzanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault NX3500 Service-Handbuch

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3660i Series Storage Array Kurzanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3600i Series Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell SC5020 Gebrauchsanweisung

Dell

Dell PS4100 Betriebsanleitung

Dell

Dell EMC NX3240 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault NX200 Technisches Handbuch

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault 725N Gebrauchs- und Pflegehandbuch

Dell

Dell EqualLogic PS Series Benutzerhandbuch

Dell

Dell PowerVault ML6000 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault NX400 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault NX3200 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault ML6000 Betriebsanleitung

Dell

Dell EMC Unity All Flash Montage- und Wartungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series Technisches Handbuch

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3260 Series Gebrauchsanweisung

Dell

Dell FS7500 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault 200S Technisches Handbuch

Dell

Dell PowerVault LTO-3-060 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell Latitude 3440 Bedienungsanleitung

Beliebte Lagerung Handbücher anderer Marken

QNAP

QNAP TS 32PXU Series Bedienungsanleitung

LaCie

LaCie RUGGED RAID Bedienungsanleitung

Freecom

Freecom CLS DOCK Bedienungsanleitung

PNY

PNY Attache P-FD64MBATT3 Bedienungsanleitung

HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Bedienungsanleitung

OLT

OLT 6x6 Maximizer Bedienungsanleitung

Transcend

Transcend JetFlash 160 Bedienungsanleitung

LaCie

LaCie RUGGED MINI Bedienungsanleitung

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt 600 Bedienungsanleitung

Panasonic

Panasonic LB-DH8 series Handbuch

Intel

Intel RAID High Availability Bedienungsanleitung

LaCie

LaCie 12big Thunderbolt 3 Bedienungsanleitung

Spectra Logic

Spectra Logic T-Series Spectra T50e Bedienungsanleitung

Panasonic

Panasonic LKM-F931-1 Bedienungsanleitung

Tabernus

Tabernus Enterprise Erase E2400 Bedienungsanleitung

Rocstor

Rocstor COMMANDER 3F series Bedienungsanleitung

HP P9000 Bedienungsanleitung

Western Digital

Western Digital Ultrastar Data60 Bedienungsanleitung