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
Working in the banner and footer
Topics:
• 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
Banner and footer overview
The banner of the PowerVault Manager interface contains four panels that are next to each other:
● The system panel shows system and firmware information.
● The connection information panel shows information about the link between the PowerVault Manager and the storage
system.
● The system date/time panel shows system date and time information.
● The user information panel shows the name of the logged-in user.
The footer of the PowerVault Manager interface contains six panels that are next to each other:
● The system health panel shows the current health of the system and each controller.
● The event panel shows the last 1,000 or fewer events (organized by event type) that the system has logged.
● The capacity utilization panel shows a pair of color-coded bars that represent the physical capacity of the system and how
the capacity is allocated and used.
● The host I/O panel shows a pair of color-coded bars for each controller that has active I/O, which represent the current
IOPS for all ports and the current data throughput (MB/s) for all ports.
● The tier I/O panel shows a color-coded bar for each virtual pool (A, B, or both) that has active I/O.
● The activity panel shows notifications of recent system activities.
If you hover your cursor over any of these panels except for the activity panel, an additional panel with more detailed
information appears. Some of these panels have menus that enable you to perform related tasks. There are two icons for
panels that have a menu: for the
banner and for the footer. Click anywhere in the panel to display the menu.
Viewing system information
The system panel in the banner shows the system name and the firmware bundle version installed for the controller that you are
accessing.
Hover the cursor over this panel to display the System Information panel, which shows the system name, vendor, location,
contact, and information. It also shows the firmware bundle version for each controller (A and B) and the service tag identifier.
The icon indicates that the panel has a menu. Click anywhere in the panel to display a menu to change system information
settings and system services settings, update firmware, restart or shut down controllers (page 83) and view SSL certificate
information.
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