Administrator Guide

User Interface for Storage Center Management

The user interface varies depending on whether you connect directly to a Storage Center or connect through a Data Collector.

Unisphere Views

The following Unisphere views are displayed when you connect a web browser to a Storage Center.

Summary View

The Summary view is a dashboard that displays summarized information about the Storage Center.

Figure 1. Summary View Dashboard

Storage Menu

• Volumes view – Used to create and manage volumes and volume folders on the selected Storage Center.

• Servers view – Used to create and manage server mappings to the selected Storage Center.

• Profiles view – Used to view, modify, and create snapshot, storage, and QoS profiles for the selected Storage Center and apply them

to selected volumes. QoS profile management is only available if it is enabled in the Storage Center settings.

• Disks view – Used to view and manage disks and disk folders, including rebalancing RAID and scanning for new disks.

• Storage Types view – Use this page to view information about current type usage, and add or edit types for the Storage Center.

System Menu

• Hardware view – Used to view hardware status and cabling information, and to configure or modify hardware settings.

• Ports view – Used to view status and configuration information about controller ports and fault domains.

Data Mobility Menu

• Imports view – Used to create and view Remote iSCSI connections to storage controllers for which you have access. This view also

allows you to locate and import data from external devices.

• Bandwidth Controls view – Used to define I/O priority.

Monitoring Menu

• Alerts view – Used to view and acknowledge alerts that have been issued for the Storage Center.

• Logs view – Used to view logs sent from the Storage Center.

• Thresholds view – Used to view I/O usage and storage threshold alerts for the Storage Center.

• Performance view– Used to view the historical I/O performance statistics for the selected Storage Center and associated storage

objects.

• Growth view – Used to view growth charts for storage objects on the Storage Center.

Storage Center Overview