Administrator Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC Storage Systems Administrator Guide for PowerStore and Unity XT metro node feature
- CLI Workspace and User Accounts
- Meta Volumes
- System Management
- Thin support in metro node
- Provisioning Storage
- Volume expansion
- Data migration
- About data migrations
- Migrating thin-capable storage
- About rebuilds
- One-time data migrations
- Batch migrations
- Prerequisites
- Creating a batch migration plan
- Checking a batch migration plan
- Modifying a batch migration file
- Starting a batch migration
- Pausing/resuming a batch migration (optional)
- Canceling a batch migration (optional)
- Monitoring a batch migration’s progress
- Viewing a batch migration’s status
- Committing a batch migration
- Cleaning a batch migration
- Removing batch migration records
- Configure the WAN Network
- Consistency Groups
- Performance and Monitoring
- Metro node with active-passive storage arrays
- Index
Chapter 1: CLI Workspace and User Accounts................................................................................7
Configure the CLI workspace........................................................................................................................................... 7
Set the threshold for console logging.......................................................................................................................7
Set window width to 100............................................................................................................................................. 8
Context tree searching.................................................................................................................................................8
Chapter 2: Meta Volumes.............................................................................................................. 9
About meta-volumes...........................................................................................................................................................9
Metavolume performance and availability requirements......................................................................................9
Moving a meta-volume..................................................................................................................................................... 10
Renaming a meta-volume................................................................................................................................................. 11
Deleting a meta-volume.................................................................................................................................................... 11
Displaying metavolume..................................................................................................................................................... 12
Verifying consistency of a meta-volume...................................................................................................................... 14
Chapter 3: System Management.................................................................................................. 15
Call-home notifications.....................................................................................................................................................15
About call-home notifications................................................................................................................................... 15
Additional documentation...........................................................................................................................................16
Event log locations............................................................................................................................................................ 16
Hardware acceleration with VAAI.................................................................................................................................. 17
Compare and Write...................................................................................................................................................... 17
WriteSame (16).............................................................................................................................................................19
Enabling/disabling WriteSame (16)..........................................................................................................................19
Offload copy overhead with XCOPY.............................................................................................................................21
Enabling and disabling XCOPY using CLI................................................................................................................21
Displaying XCOPY statistics..................................................................................................................................... 22
Renaming a metro node cluster.....................................................................................................................................22
LCD Front Panel settings................................................................................................................................................ 22
Chapter 4: Thin support in metro node........................................................................................ 23
Thin support in metro node.............................................................................................................................................23
Thin provisioning................................................................................................................................................................24
Creating thin-enabled virtual volumes....................................................................................................................24
Changing the thin personality of a virtual volume............................................................................................... 25
Thin storage management.............................................................................................................................................. 26
Thin mirroring and migration...........................................................................................................................................27
Performing thin mirroring ......................................................................................................................................... 27
About thin migrations................................................................................................................................................. 28
Chapter 5: Provisioning Storage..................................................................................................29
Provisioning Overview......................................................................................................................................................29
Provisioning storage using EZ provisioning.................................................................................................................29
Changing the thin personality of a virtual volume.....................................................................................................29
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