Help
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
Removing a chart......................................................................................................................................................... 31
Moving a chart..............................................................................................................................................................31
Back-end Bandwidth Chart.......................................................................................................................................32
Back-end Throughput chart..................................................................................................................................... 33
Back-end Errors chart................................................................................................................................................ 34
Back-end Latency chart............................................................................................................................................ 35
CPU utilization chart.................................................................................................................................................. 36
Heap Usage chart........................................................................................................................................................ 37
Front-end Queue Depth chart..................................................................................................................................38
Front-end Bandwidth chart...................................................................................................................................... 39
Front-end Latency chart........................................................................................................................................... 40
Front-end Throughput chart .................................................................................................................................... 41
Front-end Aborts chart .............................................................................................................................................43
Write Latency Delta chart......................................................................................................................................... 44
WAN Port Performance chart .................................................................................................................................44
WAN Latency chart.................................................................................................................................................... 46
Rebuild Status dashboard..........................................................................................................................................47
Virtual Volumes dashboard........................................................................................................................................49
Front End Ports dashboard.......................................................................................................................................54
System Health....................................................................................................................................................................55
Chapter 7: Provisioning storage.................................................................................................. 57
Guide.................................................................................................................................................................................... 57
Provisioning from storage volumes...............................................................................................................................57
Provision Job properties..................................................................................................................................................58
Distributed storage........................................................................................................................................................... 58
Storage arrays....................................................................................................................................................................59
Supported storage arrays..........................................................................................................................................59
Using the Storage Arrays view................................................................................................................................ 59
Rediscovering a storage array..................................................................................................................................60
Viewing logical units for an array.............................................................................................................................60
Forgetting a storage array......................................................................................................................................... 61
Storage array connectivity status............................................................................................................................61
Storage volumes.................................................................................................................................................................61
About storage volumes............................................................................................................................................... 61
The Storage Volumes view....................................................................................................................................... 62
Claiming storage volumes..........................................................................................................................................63
The Claim Storage wizard......................................................................................................................................... 64
Setting a storage volume rebuild type .................................................................................................................. 65
Unclaiming a storage volume....................................................................................................................................65
Viewing ITLs for a storage volume..........................................................................................................................66
Renaming a storage volume......................................................................................................................................66
Storage Volume status...............................................................................................................................................66
Devices.................................................................................................................................................................................67
About devices............................................................................................................................................................... 67
Using the Devices view..............................................................................................................................................68
The Create Devices wizard....................................................................................................................................... 69
The Add Local/Remote Mirror wizards..................................................................................................................70
Viewing the status of IO to a device....................................................................................................................... 71
Creating a device..........................................................................................................................................................71
4
Contents