Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About This Guide
- About Your Storage Array
- Access Virtual Disk
- Out-of-Band and In-Band Management
- Adding Storage Arrays
- Naming Storage Arrays
- Removing Storage Arrays
- Setting Up Your Storage Array
- Storage Array Support Data
- Setting a Password
- Resetting a Password
- Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Numbers
- Configuring Alert Notifications
- Battery Settings
- Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software in Windows
- Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software in Linux
- Using iSCSI
- Using the iSCSI Tab
- Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication
- Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions
- Changing the iSCSI Target Identification
- Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery (Optional)
- Configuring the MD3000i iSCSI Host Ports
- Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session
- Viewing iSCSI Statistics and Setting Baseline Statistics
- Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology
- Event Monitor
- About Your Host
- Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
- Premium Feature-Snapshot Virtual Disks
- Premium Feature-Virtual Disk Copy
- Premium Feature-32 Partitions
- Firmware Downloads
- Troubleshooting Problems
- Enclosure Hardware Replacement, Maintenance, and Configuration Considerations
- Index
12 About This Guide
• Beneath the Array Selector is the
Content Area
. Several tabs appear in this
area to group the tasks you can perform on the selected array. When you
click on a tab, the Content Area displays links for the tasks you can
perform. The following sections list some of the tasks you can perform under
each tab.
Summary Tab
• See the status of a storage array
• See the hardware components in a storage array
• See storage array capacity
• See hosts, mappings, and storage partitions
• See virtual disk groups and virtual disks
• Access links to online help, FAQs, and a tutorial about storage concepts
Configure Tab
•Configure host access
•Create a host group
• Create hot spares
•Create virtual disks
• Create snapshot virtual disks (if enabled)
• Create virtual disk copies (if enabled)
• Create host-to-virtual disk mappings
Modify Tab
• Modify the host topology
• Rename and delete virtual disks
• Add free capacity to a disk group
• Change virtual disk ownership and the preferred path of virtual disks
• Modify a snapshot virtual disk (if enabled)
• Manage virtual disk copies (if enabled)
• Edit host-to-virtual disk mappings