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Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC Storage Systems Online Help for the metro node appliance
- Contents
- Figures
- Welcome
- Using the GUI
- Configuring GUI default settings
- Using storage hierarchy maps
- Viewing system status
- Monitoring the system
- Performance
- The Performance Monitoring dashboard
- Viewing a chart
- Modifying a dashboard layout
- Creating a custom dashboard
- Removing a chart
- Moving a chart
- Back-end Bandwidth Chart
- Back-end Throughput chart
- Back-end Errors chart
- Back-end Latency chart
- CPU utilization chart
- Heap Usage chart
- Front-end Queue Depth chart
- Front-end Bandwidth chart
- Front-end Latency chart
- Front-end Throughput chart
- Front-end Aborts chart
- Write Latency Delta chart
- WAN Port Performance chart
- WAN Latency chart
- Rebuild Status dashboard
- Virtual Volumes dashboard
- Front End Ports dashboard
- System Health
- Performance
- Provisioning storage
- Guide
- Provisioning from storage volumes
- Provision Job properties
- Distributed storage
- Storage arrays
- Storage volumes
- Devices
- About devices
- Using the Devices view
- The Create Devices wizard
- The Add Local/Remote Mirror wizards
- Viewing the status of IO to a device
- Creating a device
- Renaming a device
- Deleting a device
- Mirroring a device
- Device status
- Device component properties
- Device properties
- Distributed device properties
- Add capacity to virtual volumes
- Extent properties
- Extents
- Distributed devices
- About distributed devices
- The Distributed Devices view
- The Create Distributed Device from Claimed Storage Volumes wizard
- Distributed device rule sets
- Changing the rule set for a distributed device
- Creating a distributed device
- Deleting a distributed device
- Renaming a distributed device
- Distributed Device status
- Virtual volumes
- About virtual volumes
- The Virtual Volumes view
- The Distributed Virtual Volumes view
- Creating a virtual volume
- About virtual volume expansion
- Expanding a virtual volume using storage volumes
- Enabling or disabling remote access for a volume
- Manually assigning LUN numbers to volumes
- Deleting a volume
- Renaming a volume
- Tearing down a volume
- Virtual Volume status
- Pool properties
- Virtual volume properties
- Show ITLs dialog box
- Logical unit properties
- ALUA Support field values
- Visibility field values
- Extent or Device mobility job properties
- Metro node port properties
- Storage array properties
- Storage view properties
- Storage volume properties
- Create Virtual Volumes dialog box
- Consistency group
- About consistency groups
- Using the Consistency Groups view
- Distributed Consistency Groups view
- Create Consistency Group wizard
- Types of consistency groups
- Creating a consistency group
- Adding a volume to a consistency group
- Removing a volume from a consistency group
- Deleting a consistency group
- Consistency Group status
- Consistency group properties
- Step 1: Select or create a consistency group for the virtual volume
- Step 1: Create a consistency group
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 3: Select a storage pool
- Step 3: Select a pool for each mirror on the second cluster
- Step 3: Select a pool for each mirror in the cluster
- Step3: Create thin virtual volumes
- Select a storage view for the virtual volume(s) (optional)
- Step 5: Review your selections
- Step 6: View results
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 3: Select a storage volume to create the virtual volume
- Step 3: Select a source and target storage volume
- Step 3: Create thin volumes
- Step 3: Select a target storage volume on the remote cluster
- Step 3: Select target storage on the remote cluster
- Step 6: View results
- Show Logical Units
- Exporting storage
- Initiators and metro node ports
- Storage views
- About storage views
- Using the Storage Views screen
- The Create Storage View wizard
- Creating a storage view
- Deleting a storage view
- Renaming a storage view
- Adding or removing initiators from a storage view
- Adding virtual volumes to a storage view
- Removing virtual volumes from a storage view
- Adding or removing metro node ports from a storage view
- Storage view status
- Storage group properties
- Director properties
- Cluster properties
- Moving data
- Mobility
- Move Data Within Cluster
- Move Data Across Clusters
- Create Mobility Job wizards
- Mobility job transfer size
- Creating a mobility job
- Viewing job details
- Committing a job
- Canceling a job
- Pausing a job
- Resuming a job
- Removing the record of a job
- Changing a job transfer size
- Searching for a job
- Mobility job status
- Notifications
NOTE: For V3GR arrays only, the Storage Group drop-down box changes to a selection list because a storage group is
required. For all other arrays, the storage group is optional.
The Storage Group section shows the following information about available storage groups:
● Name — The name of a storage group on the selected array.
● Policy — The type of policy associated with the storage pool (if any). Metro node lists only storage groups with policies
that match that of the selected pool, and storage groups with no associated policies.
● Parent — The name of the parent storage group (if applicable).
● Masking views — The name of the masking view associated with the storage group (if applicable).
● # Volumes — The number of volumes currently in the storage group.
To discard all selections made on previous screens and restart the wizard from Step 1, click Start Over in the lower-right corner
of the screen.
To go back to a specific step, click Back until you reach that step.
Step3: Create thin virtual volumes
The pools you have selected support creating thin virtual volumes. To create thin volumes, Select the Create thin virtual
volumes check box, otherwise, click Next to continue without creating thin volumes.
NOTE: To create thin virtual volumes, the selected storage arrays must belong to the same array family, and pools must
support creating thin volumes. For Unity and XtremIO arrays, the storage volumes are always thin.
Select a storage view for the virtual volume(s) (optional)
Select a storage view for the virtual volume(s), or select None to continue and select a storage view later.
● If you select an active storage view, the virtual volume is added to that storage view and automatically becomes visible to
hosts with access to the storage view. In some cases a rescan of the host may be required. If the storage view is inactive,
go to the Storage Views screen and add the components necessary to activate the storage view. Creating a storage view
provides more information.
● If you select None, when you are ready to expose the virtual volume to hosts, you must manually add the virtual volume to a
storage view. Adding or removing virtual volumes from a storage view provides more information.
To discard all selections made on previous screens and restart the wizard from the Step 1, click Start Over in the lower-right
corner of the screen.
To go back to a specific step, click Back until you reach that step.
Step 5: Review your selections
This screen shows a summary of your selections in the wizard and a topology map of the volume to be created.
Review your selections, and if satisfied, click Provision Storage in the lower-right corner of the screen to submit the
provisioning request.
To make changes to a specific step, click Back until you reach that step.
To discard all selections made on previous screens and restart the wizard from the Step 1, click Start Over in the lower-right
corner of the screen.
Step 6: View results
This screen shows the results of the provisioning request.
● To manage the provisioning job, click the View job Status link to open the Provisioning Jobs Status screen.
● To provision more storage, click Provision More in the lower-right corner of the screen to go back to Step 1 in the wizard,
otherwise, click Done to close the wizard.
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