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
8 Contents
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual
Disk Copy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Storage Array Performance During Virtual
Disk Copy
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Setting Copy Priority
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Recopying a Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a
Virtual Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Removing Copy Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
9 Premium Feature—32 Partitions . . . . . . . 97
10 Firmware Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM
Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Downloading Both RAID Controller and
NVSRAM Firmware
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware
. . . . . . 101
Downloading Non-redundant MSCS
NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Downloading Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . . 102
Downloading EMM Firmware
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Firmware Upgrade to 07.xx
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103