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
Enterprise traps
Traps can be generated in response to events occurring in the storage system. These events can be selected by severity and by
individual event type. A maximum of three SNMP trap destinations can be configured by IP address.
Enterprise event severities are informational, minor, major, and critical. There is a different trap type for each of these
severities. The trap format is represented by the enterprise traps MIB. Information included is the event ID, the event code
type, and a text description generated from the internal event. Equivalent information can also be sent using email or popup
alerts to users who are logged in to the PowerVault Manager.
FA MIB 2.2 SNMP behavior
The FA MIB 2.2 objects are in compliance with the FibreAlliance MIB v2.2 Specification (FA MIB2.2 Spec).
FA MIB 2.2 was never formally adopted as a standard, but it is widely implemented and contains many elements useful for
storage products. This MIB generally does not reference and integrate with other standard SNMP information. It is implemented
under the experimental subtree.
Significant status within the device includes such elements as its temperature and power sensors, the health of its storage
elements such as virtual disks, and the failure of any redundant component including an I/O controller. While sensors can be
individually queried, for the benefit of network management systems all the above elements are combined into an overall status
sensor. This is available as the unit status (connUnitStatus for the only unit).
The revisions of the various components within the device can be requested through SNMP.
The port section is only relevant to products with Fibre Channel host ports.
The event table allows 400 recently-generated events to be requested. Informational, minor, major, or critical event types
can be selected. Whichever type is selected enables the capture of that type and more severe events. This mechanism is
independent of the assignment of events to be generated into traps.
The traps section is not supported. It has been replaced by an ability to configure trap destinations using the CLI or the
PowerVault Manager. The statistics section is not implemented.
The following table lists the MIB objects, their descriptions and the value set in ME4 Series storage systems. Unless specified
otherwise, objects are not settable.
Table 30. FA MIB 2.2 objects, descriptions, and values
Object Description Value
RevisionNumber
Revision number for this MIB 220
UNumber
Top-level URL of this device, for
example, http://10.1.2.3. If a web
server is not present on the device, this
string is empty in accordance with the
FA MIB2.2 Spec.
Default: http://10.0.0.1
StatusChangeTime
Not supported 0
ConfigurationChangeTime
Not supported 0
ConnUnitTableChangeTime
Not supported 0
connUnitTable
Includes the following objects as specified by the FA MIB2.2 Spec:
connUnitId
Unique identification for this
connectivity unit
Total of 16 bytes comprised of 8
bytes of the node WWN or similar
serial number-based identifier (for
example,1000005013b05211) with the
trailing 8 bytes equal to zero
connUnitGlobalId
Same as connUnitId Same as connUnitId
connUnitType
Type of connectivity unit storage-subsystem (11)
connUnitNumports
Number of host ports in the connectivity
unit
Number of host ports
148 Other management interfaces