Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series Bedienungsanleitung

Dell™ PowerVault™

MD3200i and MD3220i

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

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if

instructions are not followed.

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

injury, or death.

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countries; Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the

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and other countries; VMware is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or

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Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series

Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001

May 2010 Rev. A00

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Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault MD3200i

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

Dell PowerVault MD3200i

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

Dell PowerVault Modular

Disk Storage Manager

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Configuration Utility 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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: MD3200i Series Storage

Array Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, and Disk Groups . . . . . 37

Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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

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

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

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

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Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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

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

Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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

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

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

Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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. . . . . . . . 50

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

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

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

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

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

Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 53

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

Preferred and Alternate Controllers and Paths . . 54

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

Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Monitoring MD3200i Series System Performance . . . 56

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5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 60

Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

6 Configuration: About Your

Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . . 63

Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Adding Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Setting Up Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Locating Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Naming or Renaming Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . 68

Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Viewing Storage Array Connections . . . . . . . . 70

Adding/Editing a Comment to an

Existing Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Removing Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Enabling Premium Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Failover Alert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Changing the Cache Settings

on the Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Changing Expansion Enclosure

ID Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Changing the Enclosure Order

in the Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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Setting the Storage Array RAID

Controller Module Clocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

7 Configuration: Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication . . . . . . . 81

Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions. . . . . . 82

Creating CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Initiator CHAP Secret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Target CHAP Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Valid Characters for CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . 83

Changing the iSCSI Target Identification . . . . . . . . 84

Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery Settings . . . . . 84

Configuring the iSCSI Host Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings . . . . . . . . . . 87

Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session . . . . . . . . . . 88

Viewing iSCSI Statistics and

Setting Baseline Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology . . . . . . . . 90

8 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 91

Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 91

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 93

Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Managing Host Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Moving a Host to a Different Host Group . . . . . . 97

Removing a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Host Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Starting or Stopping the Host Context Agent . . . . 99

I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

10 Configuration: Disk Groups

and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 103

Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Changing the Virtual Disk

Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 109

Changing the Segment Size of a Virtual Disk . . . 111

Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 113

Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting Disk . . 113

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Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Saving a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Unlocking Secure Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . . 120

Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 121

Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Enclosure Loss Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . . 126

Modifying and Removing

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Changing Controller Ownership

of the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . 129

Changing the RAID Controller

Module Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . 130

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 131

Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 133

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 135

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 137

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

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

Using Free Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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Using Unconfigured Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . 138

Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Export Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Storage Array Media Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Changing Media Scan Settings. . . . . . . . . . 142

Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . 143

11 Configuration: Premium Feature—

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk

Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Preparing Host Servers to Create the

Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 147

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk

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

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

Preparing Host Servers to Create

the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . 151

Creating the Snapshot

Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 154

Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 159

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Andere Handbücher für PowerVault MD3200i Series

Dieses Handbuch passt für folgende Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Andere Dell Lagerung Handbücher

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PS Series Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PS-M4110 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault 114T 2U Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PS4110 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault 650F Technisches Handbuch

Dell

Dell PowerVault 120T Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3000i Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell S3100 Series Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3860f Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series Kurzanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault RD1000 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault TL2000 Betriebsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series Kurzanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault 51F Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3260i Series Betriebsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault 715N Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault DL2000 Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3800f series Kurzanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerStore 500T Montage- und Wartungsanleitung

Dell

Dell EqualLogic PS Series Benutzerhandbuch

Dell

Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series Bedienungsanleitung

Dell

Dell PowerVault 132T Installations- und Betriebshandbuch

Dell

Dell EMC PowerStore T Montage- und Wartungsanleitung

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