Administrator Guide

– Active control module syncing with secondary
– No communication between control modules
• Batteries:
– Real-time-clock battery has low charge
– Cache battery has less than 72 hours of charge
Monitor Group Operations
1. Open the Alarms and Operations panel.
2. Click the Group Operations tab to view the group management operations (for example, moving a member to another pool)
and actions that you might need to take.
The Alarms and Operations panel displays details about in-process operations in the group, including moving volumes or members to
another pool, moving a partner’s delegated space to another pool, or deleting a member. Depending on the operation, you might be
able to perform actions on it, such as canceling it.
Monitor Failback Operations
1. Open the Alarms and Operations panel.
2. Click the Failback Operations tab to display failback operations and any actions that you might need to take.
Monitor Storage Pool Free Space
You must maintain sucient free pool space to ensure that load-balancing, thin-provisioning, member-removal, snapshot, and
replication operations perform optimally.
To monitor the storage pool free space:
1. Click Group.
2. Click Storage Pools to open the Storage Pool summary window.
Check the free pool space value in the Storage Pools panel. Dell recommends that free pool space not fall below the following level
(whichever is smaller):
• 5 percent of the total pool space
• 100GB multiplied by the number of pool members
You can increase free pool space by moving volumes from the low-space pool to a dierent pool.
You can expand pool capacity by moving a member to the pool. You can sort the table by clicking the heading of a column; the table
is sorted by Volume Template by default.
About Diagnostics
Diagnostics collect information about events that occur on a Dell EqualLogic storage system. Dell customer support can use these
generated diagnostic reports to propose a solution to a problem with your system.
You can generate a complete diagnostic report based on diagnostics run on PS Series and FS Series controllers. By default, both of
these diagnostic types are run on all controllers, enabling your support representative to analyze the most complete diagnostic report
for your system. These diagnostic reports are stored on both the FS Series and PS Series arrays. The PS Series diagnostic report
can be emailed automatically to your Dell customer support representative. Due to the size of the FS Series diagnostic report, that
diagnostic report can be stored only on the array.
• Generate diagnostic reports only when your support representative instructs you to do so.
• Change the default settings only if your support representative instructs you to do so.
You can run reports for the following diagnostics:
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