Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Administrator’s Guide
- Contents
- Getting started
- New user setup
- Configure and provision a new storage system
- Using the PowerVault Manager interface
- System concepts
- About virtual and linear storage
- About disk groups
- About RAID levels
- About ADAPT
- About SSDs
- About SSD read cache
- About spares
- About pools
- About volumes and volume groups
- About volume cache options
- About thin provisioning
- About automated tiered storage
- About initiators, hosts, and host groups
- About volume mapping
- About operating with a single controller
- About snapshots
- About copying volumes
- About reconstruction
- About quick rebuild
- About performance statistics
- About firmware updates
- About managed logs
- About SupportAssist
- About CloudIQ
- About configuring DNS settings
- About replicating virtual volumes
- About the Full Disk Encryption feature
- About data protection with a single controller
- Working in the Home topic
- Guided setup
- Provisioning disk groups and pools
- Attaching hosts and volumes in the Host Setup wizard
- Overall system status
- Configuring system settings
- Managing scheduled tasks
- Working in the System topic
- Viewing system components
- Systems Settings panel
- Resetting host ports
- Rescanning disk channels
- Clearing disk metadata
- Updating firmware
- Changing FDE settings
- Configuring advanced settings
- Changing disk settings
- Changing system cache settings
- Configuring partner firmware update
- Configuring system utilities
- Using maintenance mode
- Restarting or shutting down controllers
- Working in the Hosts topic
- Working in the Pools topic
- Working in the Volumes topic
- Viewing volumes
- Creating a virtual volume
- Creating a linear volume
- Modifying a volume
- Copying a volume or snapshot
- Abort a volume copy
- Adding volumes to a volume group
- Removing volumes from a volume group
- Renaming a volume group
- Remove volume groups
- Rolling back a virtual volume
- Deleting volumes and snapshots
- Creating snapshots
- Resetting a snapshot
- Creating a replication set from the Volumes topic
- Initiating or scheduling a replication from the Volumes topic
- Manage replication schedules from the Volumes topic
- Working in the Mappings topic
- Working in the Replications topic
- About replicating virtual volumes in the Replications topic
- Replication prerequisites
- Replication process
- Creating a virtual pool for replication
- Setting up snapshot space management in the context of replication
- Replication and empty allocated pages
- Disaster recovery
- Accessing the data while keeping the replication set intact
- Accessing the data from the backup system as if it were the primary system
- Disaster recovery procedures
- Viewing replications
- Querying a peer connection
- Creating a peer connection
- Modifying a peer connection
- Deleting a peer connection
- Creating a replication set from the Replications topic
- Modifying a replication set
- Deleting a replication set
- Initiating or scheduling a replication from the Replications topic
- Stopping a replication
- Suspending a replication
- Resuming a replication
- Manage replication schedules from the Replications topic
- About replicating virtual volumes in the Replications topic
- Working in the Performance topic
- Working in the banner and footer
- Banner and footer overview
- Viewing system information
- Viewing certificate information
- Viewing connection information
- Viewing system date and time information
- Viewing user information
- Viewing health information
- Viewing event information
- Viewing capacity information
- Viewing host information
- Viewing tier information
- Viewing recent system activity
- Other management interfaces
- SNMP reference
- Using FTP and SFTP
- Using SMI-S
- Using SLP
- Administering a log-collection system
- Best practices
- System configuration limits
- Glossary of terms
Getting started
PowerVault Manager is a web-based interface for configuring, monitoring, and managing the storage system.
Each controller module in the storage system contains a web server, which is accessed when you sign in to the PowerVault
Manager. You can access all functions from either controller in a dual-controller system. If one controller becomes unavailable,
you can continue to manage the storage system from the partner controller.
In addition to PowerVault Manager, each controller module in the storage system has SNMP, FTP, SFTP, SMI-S, SLP, and
command-line interfaces. See this guide for information about all interfaces other than the command-line interface. For
information about using the command-line interface (CLI), see the Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System CLI
Guide.
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Topics:
• New user setup
• Configure and provision a new storage system
• Using the PowerVault Manager interface
• System concepts
New user setup
ME4 Series storage systems that are running firmware version G280 or later do not contain default users.
The first time that you connect to a storage system that is not deployed, you are prompted to set up a new user.
NOTE:
The PowerVault Manager and CLI are the only interfaces through which a storage system can be accessed until the
new user is created.
Configure and provision a new storage system
The PowerVault Manager offers two ways for you to set up and provision your storage system:
● Guided setup and provisioning
● Manual setup and provisioning
The guided setup and provisioning process provides options for you to quickly set up your system by guiding you through the
configuration and provisioning process. It provides you with limited, yet optimal storage configuration options to quickly enable
I/O operations.
Manual setup and provisioning process provides more provisioning options and greater flexibility, but with the added complexity
of selecting all settings and provisioning options. These include creating disk groups and pools, creating volumes, and mapping
volumes to initiators.
NOTE: If you choose to use guided setup, you can still manually provision the system after the system is set up.
To access guided setup for the first time:
1. Configure your web browser to access the PowerVault Manager as described in Web browser requirements and setup on
page 11.
2. Temporarily set the management host NIC to a 10.0.0.x address or to the same IPv6 subnet to enable communication with
the storage system.
3. In a supported web browser:
● For an IPv4 network, type https://10.0.0.2 to access controller module A.
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