Administrator Guide

Activating Remote Replication premium features......................................................................................................... 145
Deactivating Remote Replication.....................................................................................................................................146
Remote Replication groups...............................................................................................................................................146
Purpose of a Remote Replication group................................................................................................................... 146
Remote Replication group requirements and guidelines......................................................................................... 146
Creating a Remote Replication group........................................................................................................................146
Replicated pairs.................................................................................................................................................................. 147
Guidelines for choosing virtual disks in a replicated pair..........................................................................................147
Guidelines for choosing virtual disks in a replicated pair..........................................................................................147
Creating replicated pairs..............................................................................................................................................147
Removing replicated pair from Remote Replication group..................................................................................... 148
Chapter 15: Management firmware downloads............................................................................... 149
Downloading RAID controller and NVSRAM packages.................................................................................................149
Downloading both RAID controller and NVSRAM firmware.........................................................................................149
Downloading only NVSRAM firmware............................................................................................................................. 151
Downloading physical disk firmware................................................................................................................................152
Downloading MD3060e Series expansion module EMM firmware............................................................................. 152
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART).................................................................................. 153
Media errors and unreadable sectors..............................................................................................................................153
Chapter 16: Firmware inventory.................................................................................................... 154
Viewing the firmware inventory.......................................................................................................................................154
Chapter 17: System interfaces...................................................................................................... 155
Virtual disk service............................................................................................................................................................. 155
Volume shadow-copy service.......................................................................................................................................... 155
Chapter 18: Storage array software............................................................................................... 157
Start-up routine..................................................................................................................................................................157
Device health conditions................................................................................................................................................... 157
Trace buffers......................................................................................................................................................................159
Retrieving trace buffers.............................................................................................................................................. 160
Collecting physical disk data.............................................................................................................................................160
Creating a support data collection schedule............................................................................................................ 160
Suspending or resuming a support data collection schedule.................................................................................. 161
Removing a support data collection schedule...........................................................................................................161
Event log..............................................................................................................................................................................161
Viewing the event log...................................................................................................................................................161
Recovery Guru................................................................................................................................................................... 162
Storage array profile.......................................................................................................................................................... 162
Viewing the physical associations.................................................................................................................................... 163
Recovering from unresponsive storage array condition............................................................................................... 163
Locating a physical disk.....................................................................................................................................................164
Locating an expansion enclosure..................................................................................................................................... 164
Capturing state information............................................................................................................................................. 165
SMrepassist utility..............................................................................................................................................................165
Unidentified devices.......................................................................................................................................................... 166
Recovering from unidentified storage array...................................................................................................................166
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