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
Table 30. FA MIB 2.2 objects, descriptions, and values (continued)
Object Description Value
connUnitState
Overall state of the connectivity unit online (2) or unknown (1), as appropriate
connUnitStatus
Overall status of the connectivity unit ok (3), warning (4), failed (5), or
unknown (1), as appropriate
connUnitProduct
Connectivity unit vendor’s product
model name
Model string
connUnitSn
Serial number for this connectivity unit Serial number string
connUnitUpTime
Number of centiseconds since the last
unit initialization
0 at startup
connUnitUrl
Same as systemURL Same as systemURL
connUnitDomainId
Not used; set to all 1s as specified by the
FA MIB2.2 Spec
0xFFFF
connUnitProxyMaster
Stand-alone unit returns yes for this
object
yes (3) since this is a stand-alone unit
connUnitPrincipal
Whether this connectivity unit is the
principal unit within the group of fabric
elements. If this value is not applicable,
returns unknown.
unknown (1)
connUnitNumSensors
Number of sensors in the
connUnitSensorTable
33
connUnitStatusChangeTime
Same as statusChangeTime Same as statusChangeTime
connUnitNumRevs
Number of revisions in the
connUnitRevsTable
16
connUnitNumZones
Not supported 0
connUnitModuleId
Not supported 16 bytes of 0s
connUnitName
Settable: Display string containing a
name for this connectivity unit
Default: Uninitialized Name
connUnitInfo
Settable: Display string containing
information about this connectivity unit
Default: Uninitialized Info
connUnitControl
Not supported invalid (2) for an SNMP GET operation
and not settable through an SNMP SET
operation.
connUnitContact
Settable: Contact information for this
connectivity unit
Default: Uninitialized Contact
connUnitLocation
Settable: Location information for this
connectivity unit
Default: Uninitialized Location
connUnitEventFilter
Defines the event severity that will be
logged by this connectivity unit. Settable
only through the PowerVault Manager.
Default: info (8)
connUnitNumEvents
Number of events currently in the
connUnitEventTable
Varies as the size of the Event Table
varies
connUnitMaxEvents
Maximum number of events that can be
defined in the connUnitEventTable
400
connUnitEventCurrID
Not supported 0
connUnitRevsTable
Includes the following objects as specified by the FA MIB2.2 Spec:
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