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
Configure access to the SMI-S interface for other users
1. Log in as a user with the manage role that also has access to the SMI-S interface.
2. If the user does not exist, create the user using the following command:
create user interfaces wbi,cli,smis,ftp roles manage username
3. Type the following command to configure access to the SMI-S interface for another user:
set user username2 interfaces wbi,cli,smis,ftp
Listening for managed-logs notifications
For use with the storage system’s managed logs feature, the SMI-S provider can be set up to listen for notifications that log
files have filled to a point that are ready to be transferred to a log-collection system.
1. In the CLI, enter this command:set advanced-settings managed-logs enabled.
2. In an SMI-S client:
a. Subscribe using the SELECT * FROM CIM_InstCreation WHERE SourceInstance ISA CIM_LogicalFile
filter.
b. Subscribe using the SELECT * FROM CIM_InstDeletion WHERE SourceInstance ISA CIM_LogicalFile
filter.
For more information about the managed logs feature, see About managed logs.
Testing SMI-S
Use an SMI-S certified client for SMI-S 1.5. Common clients include Microsoft System Center, IBM Tivoli, EMC CommandCenter
and CA Unicenter. Common WBEM CLI clients are Pegasus cimcli and Sblim’s wbemcli.
To certify that the array provider is SMI-S 1.5 compliant, SNIA requires that the providers pass the Conformance Test Program
(CTP) tests.
The reset smis-configuration command enables the restoration of your original SMI-S configuration.
Troubleshooting
Table 38. Troubleshooting
Problem Cause Solution
Unable to connect to
the embedded SMI-S Array
provider.
SMI-S protocol is not
enabled.
Log in to the array as manage and type: set protocolsmis
enabled
HTTP Error (Invalid username/
password or 401 Unauthorized).
User preferences are
configurable for each
user on the storage
system.
Check that the user has access to the smis interface and set the
user preferences to support the smis interface, if necessary. See
Adding,modifying,and deleting users for instructions on how to add
users. Also verify the supplied credentials.
Want to connect securely as
user name my_xxxx.
Need to add user. Log in to the array as manage . Type: create user level
manage my_xxxuser and then type: set user my_xxxuser
interfaces wbi,cli,smis
Unable to discover via SLP. SLP multicast has
limited range(known as
hops).
Move the client closer to the array or set up a SLP DA server or
using unicast requests.
Unable to determine if SMI-S is
running.
Initial troubleshooting. Use a Common Information Model (CIM) client tool, such as
wbemcli, to troubleshoot.
170 Other management interfaces