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
In a dual-controller configuration, both controller A and B alert events are sent via controller A’s SMI-S provider.
The event categories in the following table pertain to FRU assemblies and certain FRU components.
Table 35. CIM Alertindicationevents
FRU/Event category Corresponding SMI-S class Operational status values that would trigger alert
conditions
Controller SMI_Controller Down, NotInstalled, OK
Hard Disk Drive SMI_DiskDrive Unknown, Missing, Error, Degraded, OK
Fan SMI_PSUFan Error, Stopped, OK
Power Supply SMI_PSU Unknown, Error, Other, Stressed, Degraded, OK
Temperature Sensor SMI_OverallTempSensor Unknown, Error, Other, Non-Recoverable Error,
Degraded, OK
Battery/Super Cap SMI_SuperCap Unknown, Error, OK
FC Port SMI_FCPort Stopped, OK
SAS Port SMI_SASTargetPort Stopped, OK
iSCSI Port SMI_ISCSIEthernetPort Stopped, OK
Life cycle indications
The SMI-S interface provides CIM life cycle indications for changes in the physical and logical devices in the storage system.
The SMI-S provider supports all mandatory elements and certain optional elements in SNIA SMI-S specification version 1.5.0.
CIM Query Language (CQL) and Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language (WQL) are both supported, with some
limitations to the CQL indication filter. The provider supports additional life cycle indications that the Windows Server 2012
operating system requires.
Table 36. Life cycle indications
Profile or
subprofile
Element description and name WQL or
CQL
Block Services
SELECT * FROM CIM_InstCreationWHERESourceInstanceISACIM_StoragePool
Send lifecycleindication when a disk group is created or deleted.
Both
Block Services
SELECT * FROM
CIM_InstCreationWHERESourceInstanceISACIM_StorageVolume
Send lifecycleindication when a volume iscreated or deleted.
Both
Block Services
SELECT * FROM CIM_InstModificationWHERESourceInstance ISA
CIM_LogicalDevice
Send lifecycleindication when disk drive(or any logical device)status changes.
Both
Copy Services
SELECT * FROM CIM_InstModificationWHERESourceInstance
ISA CIM_StorageSynchronized AND SourceInstance.SyncState<>
PreviousInstance.SyncState
Send lifecycleindication when the snapshotsynchronizationstatechanges.
CQL
Disk Drive Lite
SELECT * FROM CIM_InstCreation WHERE SourceInstance ISA
CIM_DiskDrive
Send life cycle indication when a disk drive is inserted or removed.
Both
Job Control
SELECT * FROM CIM_InstModification WHERE SourceInstance
ISA CIM_ConcreteJob AND SourceInstance.OperationalStatus=17 AND
SourceInstance.OperationalStatus=2
WQL
168 Other management interfaces