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- 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
Expansion
Method
The expansion method available for this volume. Possible values:
concatenation — The volume can be expanded using Concatenation or RAID-C expansion.
storage-volume — The volume can be expanded to the Expandable capacity using storage volume
expansion.
not-supported — The volume does not support expansion.
Expandable By The amount of space that is available for volume expansion. A volume that has an Expandable by of 0 can
still be expanded using concatenation. A volume that has an Expandable by of > 0 can be expanded using
storage volume expansion.
Expansion Status The expansion status of the volume. The volume can be:
- (dash) — This volume can be expanded.
failed — The last volume expansion on this volume failed.
unknown — The volume expansion status is unknown.
in-progress — The volume cannot be expanded because it has a volume expansion in progress.
Block Count The number of blocks in the underlying extent.
Block Size The size of a single block, in kilobytes.
Capacity The size of the virtual volume.
Thin Enabled Indicates if the virtual volume is created as a thin volume. Possible values:
● Enabled — The volume was created as a thin volume.
● Disabled — The volume was not created as a thin volume although the underlying storage is
thin-capable.
● Unavailable — The underlying storage in not thin-capable.
You can change this property for XtremIO, VMAX and VNX virtual volumes only in the CLI. Refer to the
CLI Guide for information.
Storage Array
Family
The family of arrays that the supporting array belongs to. Possible values:
● XTREMIO — The array belongs to the XtremIO family of arrays.
● CLARiiON — The array belongs to the VNX or Unity family of arrays.
● SYMMETRIX — The array belongs to the VMAX or Symmetrix family of arrays.
● Mixed — The supporting arrays belong to different array families. For example, you might have a
RAID-1 device with one leg on a VNX array and the other leg on a VMAX array.
● Other — Metro node does not recognize the array or does not support creating thin volumes on the
array.
● - (dash) — The Storage Array Family property is not populated. There may be a connectivity
problem.
Health The overall status of the virtual volume. See Virtual volume states.
Health
Indications
The reasons for the virtual volumes unhealthy state. See Virtual volume status.
Operational
Status
Indicates how the virtual volume is functioning in the cluster. See Virtual volume status.
Service Status Indicates how the virtual volume is functioning in the cluster. See Virtual volume status.
Show ITLs dialog box
This dialog box shows a read-only list of Initiator-Target-LUN combinations that shows the storage volume's back-end path
(metro node back-end port, storage port, and LUN). you can also search for a specific initiator, target or LUN by entering the
number in the Find text box and pressing Enter.
The following table describes the fields shown in the dialog box:
Field/Column
Description
Storage Volume Name The name of the selected storage volume.
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