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 34. Supported SMI-S profiles (continued)
Profile/subprofile/package Description
Extent Composition Provides an abstraction of how it virtualizes exposable block storage elements from the
underlying Primordial storage pool.
Location subprofile Models the location details of product and its sub-components.
Sensors profile Specializes the DMTF Sensors profile.
Software Inventory profile Models installed and available software and firmware.
Storage Enclosure profile Describes an enclosure that contains storage elements (e.g., disk or tape drives) and
enclosure elements (e.g., fans and power supplies).
Multiple Computer System
subprofile
Models multiple systems that cooperate to present a " virtual " computer system with
additional capabilities or redundancy.
Copy Services subprofile Provides the ability to create and delete local snapshots and local volume copies (clones), and
to reset the synchronization state between a snapshot and its source volume.
Job Control subprofile Provides the ability to monitor provisioning operations, such as creating volumes and
snapshots, and mapping volumes to hosts.
Disk Sparing subprofile Provides the ability to describe the current spare disk configuration, to allocate/de-allocate
spare disks, and to clear the state of unavailable disk drives.
Object Manager Adapter
subprofile
Allows the client to manage the Object Manager Adapters of a SMI Agent. In particular, it can
be used to turn the indication service on and off.
Thin Provisioning profile Specializes the Block Services Package to add support for thin provisioning of volumes. SMI-S
does not support the creation of virtual pools. However, a client can create virtual volumes.
Pools from Volumes profile Models a pool created from other volumes. This profile is used in conjunction with the Thin
Provisioning profile to model virtual storage pools.
Block Server Performance subprofile
The implementation of the block server performance subprofile allows use of the CIM_BlockStorageStatisticalData
classes and their associations, and the GetStatisticsCollection, CreateManifestCollection,
AddOrModifyManifest and RemoveManifest methods.
The Block Server Performance subprofile collection of statistics updates at 60-second intervals.
CIM
Supported CIM operations
SFCB provides a full set of CIM operations including GetClass, ModifyClass, CreateClass, DeleteClass,
EnumerateClasses, EnumerateClassNames, GetInstance, DeleteInstance, CreateInstance,
ModifyInstance, EnumerateInstances, EnumerateInstanceNames, InvokeMethod (MethodCall),
ExecQuery, Associators, AssociatorNames, References, ReferenceNames, GetQualifier,
SetQualifier, DeleteQualifier, EnumerateQualifiers, GetProperty and SetProperty.
CIM Alerts
The implementation of alert indications allows a subscribing CIM client to receive events such as FC cable connects, Power
Supply events, Fan events, Temperature Sensor events and Disk Drive events.
If the storage system’s SMI-S interface is enabled, the system will send events as indications to SMI-S clients so that SMI-S
clients can monitor system performance. For information about enabling the SMI-S interface, see SMI-S configuration.
Other management interfaces
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