Administrator Guide

Create disk groups and pools................................................................................................................................... 35
Open the guided disk group and pool creation wizard....................................................................................... 36
Attaching hosts and volumes in the Host Setup wizard..........................................................................................36
Verify prerequisites in the Host Setup wizard..................................................................................................... 36
Select a host in the Host Setup wizard................................................................................................................. 36
Group hosts in the Host Setup wizard...................................................................................................................36
Add and manage volumes in the Host Setup wizard.......................................................................................... 37
Configuration summary.............................................................................................................................................. 37
Overall system status....................................................................................................................................................... 37
Host information.......................................................................................................................................................... 37
Port information...........................................................................................................................................................37
Capacity information...................................................................................................................................................38
Storage information.................................................................................................................................................... 38
System health information........................................................................................................................................ 39
Spares information...................................................................................................................................................... 39
Resolving a pool conflict caused by inserting a foreign disk group.................................................................39
Configuring system settings........................................................................................................................................... 40
Set the system date and time.................................................................................................................................. 40
Managing users.............................................................................................................................................................41
Configuring network ports on controller modules ..............................................................................................44
Configure DNS settings............................................................................................................................................. 46
Enable or disable system-management settings..................................................................................................46
Change system information settings...................................................................................................................... 47
Setting system notification settings....................................................................................................................... 48
Configuring SupportAssist......................................................................................................................................... 51
Changing host port settings..................................................................................................................................... 53
Managing scheduled tasks.............................................................................................................................................. 56
Modify a schedule from the Home topic............................................................................................................... 56
Delete a schedule from the Home topic................................................................................................................ 57
Chapter 3: Working in the System topic...................................................................................... 58
Viewing system components..........................................................................................................................................58
Front view..................................................................................................................................................................... 58
Rear view.......................................................................................................................................................................59
Table view..................................................................................................................................................................... 59
Systems Settings panel.................................................................................................................................................... 61
Resetting host ports......................................................................................................................................................... 61
Rescanning disk channels................................................................................................................................................ 61
Clearing disk metadata.....................................................................................................................................................62
Clear metadata from leftover disks........................................................................................................................ 62
Updating firmware............................................................................................................................................................ 62
Best practices for firmware update........................................................................................................................ 62
Updating controller module firmware..................................................................................................................... 63
Updating expansion module firmware.................................................................................................................... 64
Updating disk firmware.............................................................................................................................................. 64
Using the activity progress interface..................................................................................................................... 65
Changing FDE settings.................................................................................................................................................... 66
Changing FDE general configuration...................................................................................................................... 66
Repurposing the system............................................................................................................................................ 68
Repurposing disks........................................................................................................................................................68
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