Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- About This Guide
- Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition Version 5.4 User's Guide
- Introduction to ASM/ME
- Functions Provided By ASM/ME
- Supported Applications
- HIT Groups and Multiple Machine Management
- ASM/ME Smart Copies
- Smart Copy Types
- Smart Copy Operations for Template and Thin Clone Volumes
- Robust Data Recovery
- Thin-Provisioning a Volume
- SAN Data Copy Offload
- Scripts and Command Generation
- Alerts and Event Notification
- Remote Installations
- Failover Cluster Support
- ASM/ME and the Virtual Snapshot Service
- Functions Provided By ASM/ME
- Configure ASM/ME
- PS Series Group Requirements
- Windows Computer Requirements
- Required Access Controls
- VSS/VDS Service Access to the Group
- Access to Volumes and Snapshots
- iSCSI Target Connections
- Volume Mount Point and Drive Letter Assignments
- Mount Point Constraints in Cluster Environments
- ASM/ME Settings
- ASM/ME Graphical User Interface
- Start the ASM/ME GUI
- Tree Panel
- Tree Panel Behavior in Failover Cluster Environments
- Tree Panel Nodes
- Tree Panel Icons
- Group SharePoint Farm Nodes, Clusters, or Host Nodes
- About Aliases
- Customize Color Themes
- HIT Groups
- General ASM/ME Operations
- About Volumes
- Operations on Failover Clusters
- About Collections
- About Schedules
- About Smart Copies
- Restoring Data
- View Multipath Information
- View I/O Details
- Using ASM/ME with Exchange
- View Exchange Applications in ASM/ME
- Exchange Operations
- Overview of Exchange Smart Copies
- Exchange eseutil.exe Utility
- Recovery Considerations for Exchange
- Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery
- Run Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery Immediately
- Run Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery After Smart Copy Creation
- Schedule a Global Verification Task for Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery
- Run Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery on a Remote Host
- View Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery Status
- Checksum Verification and Soft Recovery Logging and Notification
- Create Exchange Smart Copies
- Schedule Smart Copies for Exchange Components
- Recover Exchange Data
- Using ASM/ME with SQL Server
- Using ASM/ME with Hyper-V
- Using ASM/ME with SharePoint
- SharePoint Installation Considerations
- Plan to Install on a SharePoint Farm
- Example of ASM/ME Installed on a SharePoint Farm
- Example of a SharePoint Farm with a SQL Cluster
- Install ASM/ME on a SharePoint Farm
- About Changes to an Existing SharePoint Farm
- Remove a HIT Group Host From a SharePoint Farm
- Add a Writer Host to a SharePoint Farm
- Change a Writer Host in a SharePoint Farm
- Change the Writer Host and Disable the VSS Writer in a SharePoint Farm
- Respond to Changes in a SharePoint Farm
- View SharePoint Farm Components in ASM/ME
- SharePoint Smart Copies
- Restore Options for SharePoint Smart Copies
- Availability of SharePoint Data Restoration Operations
- Mount a SharePoint Smart Copy
- Restore Selected Databases from a SharePoint Smart Copy
- Restore a Database In-Place From a SharePoint Smart Copy
- Restore a Database From a SharePoint Smart Copy as a New Database
- Restore an SSA From a SharePoint Smart Copy
- Using the Command Line Interface
- Introduction to ASMCLI
- How to Use ASMCLI Commands
- General Command Syntax
- ASMCLI Command Summary
- Command Parameters
- ASMCLI Commands and Their Syntax
- ASMCLI -alert
- ASMCLI -breaksmartcopy
- ASMCLI -cloneReplica
- ASMCLI -configureASM
- ASMCLI -configureCHAP
- ASMCLI -createCollection
- ASMCLI -delete
- ASMCLI -deleteCollection
- ASMCLI -enumerateiSCSIPortals
- ASMCLI -enumerateSmartCopies
- ASMCLI -help
- ASMCLI -list
- ASMCLI -modifyCollection
- ASMCLI -mount
- ASMCLI -Properties
- ASMCLI -restore
- ASMCLI -selectiveRestore
- ASMCLI -shutdownsystray
- ASMCLI -shutdownverifier
- ASMCLI -smart
- ASMCLI -unmount
- ASMCLI -verify
- ASMCLI -version
- Use a Script to Create Smart Copies
- Recover a Clustered Volume From a Clone
- Index
access to backup documents. Further, if you are using a cluster node and the schedule includes items that are related to
cluster resources, you must specify an account that belongs to the Domain Administrator group.
7. Click Create.
Modify a Schedule
For a thin provision schedule, change any rethinning parameters, then click Update.
1. Select or right-click the schedule. Click Modify Schedule.
2. Modify the frequency or name of the schedule. Click Next.
3. Modify the settings, as needed. Click Next.
4. Depending on the schedule type, perform one or more of the following steps:
a. For a Smart Copy schedule, change the advanced settings. Click Next.
You cannot modify the original Smart Copy options.
b. Change the Keep Count Setting. Click Next.
c. Change the user account information. Click Update.
Delete a Schedule
1. Right-click the schedule and click Delete Schedule.
2. Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
You can also temporarily disable a schedule instead of deleting it. See Disable a Schedule on page 50.
Enable a Schedule
To enable the schedule, right-click on the schedule and select Enable Schedule. The schedule runs at the next possible date
and time.
To modify or delete a schedule while it is disabled. See Modify a Schedule and Delete a Schedule.
Disable a Schedule
To disable a schedule, right-click the schedule and select Disable Schedule.
If you view the properties for the schedule, the Schedule Status field changes to Disabled.
Schedules for Thin-Provisioning
You can create schedules to perform thin-provisioning operations at regular intervals. ASM/ME notifies you when scheduled
operations complete or fail.
● You can specify how often the operation occurs—Using a schedule is suggested for volumes on operating systems that do
not perform their on-demand thin-provisioning.
● Dell recommends using a schedule that thin-provisions the volume once a week. You can increase the frequency to daily,
ideally during the time of day when the volume is under the lowest workload.
● For volumes on operating systems that perform on-demand thin-provisioning, you do not need to create a schedule.
However, you can perform a one-time thin-provisioning operation. For example, perform this operation on volumes that were
created on previous versions of the operating system that did not support thin-provisioning. Thereafter, the operating
system’s own thin-provisioning operations keep the volumes sufficiently thin.
● To thin-provision a volume, the file system creates a temporary file in the volume that uses a percentage of the available
free space, unmaps the space occupied by the temporary file, then deletes the file. By default, the temporary file uses 95%
of the free space in the volume. You can reduce this value if the volume is being heavily used to avoid an out-of-space error
during the thin-provisioning operation.
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General ASM/ME Operations