Laptop User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Planning: About Your Storage Array
- Planning: RAID Controller Modules
- Planning: MD3600f Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts
- Configuration: Overview
- Configuration: About Your Storage Array
- Out-of-Band and In-Band Management
- Storage Arrays
- Adding Storage Arrays
- Setting Up Your Storage Array
- Locating Storage Arrays
- Naming or Renaming Storage Arrays
- Setting a Password
- Viewing Storage Array Connections
- Adding/Editing a Comment to an Existing Storage Array
- Removing Storage Arrays
- Enabling Premium Features
- Failover Alert Display
- Changing the Cache Settings on the Storage Array
- Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Number
- Changing the Enclosure Order in the Physical Pane
- Configuring Alert Notifications
- Battery Settings
- Configuration: Event Monitor
- Configuration: About Your Host
- Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
- Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
- Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type
- Physical Disk Security With Self Encrypting Disk
- Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks
- Enclosure Loss Protection
- Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
- Restricted Mappings
- Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group
- Storage Partitioning
- Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion
- Disk Group Migration
- Import Disk Group
- Storage Array Media Scan
- Configuration: Premium Feature- Snapshot Virtual Disks
- Configuration: Premium Feature- Virtual Disk Copy
- Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS Shared Disk
- Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions
- Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions
- Creating a Virtual Disk Copy
- Preferred RAID Controller Module Ownership
- Failed RAID Controller Module
- Copy Manager
- Copying the Virtual Disk
- Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy
- Setting Copy Priority
- Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy
- Recopying a Virtual Disk
- Removing Copy Pairs
- Configuration: Premium Feature- Upgrading to High-Performance Tier
- Configuration: Premium Feature- Remote Replication
- Switchable Host Access Configuration Required With Remote Replication
- Activating Remote Replication
- Replication Repository Virtual Disks
- RAID Levels for Replication Repository Virtual Disks
- Primary and Secondary Virtual Disk Pairs
- Using Remote Replication With Other Features
- Storage Partitioning With Remote Replication
- Snapshot Virtual Disk With Remote Replication
- Virtual Disk Copy With Remote Replication
- Virtual Disk Expansion With Remote Replication
- Required Switch Zoning Configurations
- Zoning Guidelines for Remote Replication
- Switch Cascading
- Journaling File Systems and Remote Replication
- Setting Up and Managing Remote Replication
- Activating the Remote Replication Premium Feature and Creating Replication Virtual Disks
- Activating and Creating Replication Repository Virtual Disks From the Storage Array
- Activating and Creating Replication Repository Virtual Disks From an Existing Disk Group
- Creating a Remote Replication
- Selecting the Secondary Virtual Disk
- Setting the Write Mode
- Setting Synchronization Priority and Synchronization Method
- Completing the Remote Replication
- RAID Controller Module Ownership/Preferred Path
- Viewing Information About a Remote Replication or Replication Repository Virtual Disk
- Viewing the Properties Pane
- Viewing Logical Elements of the Secondary Virtual Disk
- Viewing the Physical Components or Logical Elements of the Primary Virtual Disk
- Virtual Disk Status Icons
- Changing Write Mode and Consistency Group Membership
- Resynchronizing Virtual Disks
- Normally Synchronized Virtual Disks
- Changing Synchronization Priority and Method
- Unsynchronized Virtual Disks
- Automatically Resynchronizing Virtual Disks
- Manually Resynchronizing Virtual Disks
- Reversing Roles Between the Primary and Secondary Virtual Disks
- Promoting the Secondary Virtual Disk or Demoting the Primary Virtual Disk
- Suspending a Remote Replication
- Resuming a Remote Replication
- About Resumed Remote Replications
- Testing Communication Between the Primary and Secondary Virtual Disks
- Deleting a Virtual Disk From a Replicated Pair in a Storage Array
- Deleting a Primary Virtual Disk
- Deleting a Secondary Virtual Disk
- Deleting a Primary Virtual Disk in a Replicated Pair From a Storage Array
- Deleting a Secondary Virtual Disk in a Replicated Pair From a Storage Array
- Removing a Remote Replication From a Storage Array
- Deactivating the Remote Replication on the Storage Array
- Disabling the Remote Replication Premium Feature
- Configuration: Device Mapper Multipath for Linux
- Management: Installing Array Components
- Management: Firmware Downloads
- Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM Packages
- Downloading Both RAID Controller and NVSRAM Firmware
- Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware
- Downloading Physical Disk Firmware
- Downloading MD1200 Series Expansion Module EMM Firmware
- Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART)
- Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors
- Management: Firmware Inventory
- Management: System Interfaces
- Troubleshooting: Your Storage Array Software
- Start-Up Routine
- Device Health Conditions
- Storage Array Support Data
- Automatically Collect the Support Bundle Data
- Collecting the Physical Disk Data
- Event Log
- Recovery Guru
- Storage Array Profile
- Viewing the Logical Associations
- Viewing the Physical Associations
- Finding Nodes
- Using Go To
- Recovering From an Unresponsive Storage Array Condition
- Locating a Physical Disk
- Locating an Expansion Enclosure
- Capturing the State Information
- SMrepassist Utility
- Unidentified Devices
- Recovering From an Unidentified Storage Array
- Starting or Restarting the Host Context Agent Software
- Troubleshooting: Your Array
- Safety First-For You and Your Array
- Troubleshooting Storage Array Startup Failure
- Troubleshooting Loss of Communication
- Troubleshooting an SFP Transceiver
- Troubleshooting External Connections
- Troubleshooting Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module
- Troubleshooting Array Cooling Problems
- Troubleshooting Expansion Enclosure Management Modules
- Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules
- Troubleshooting Hard Drives
- Troubleshooting Array and Expansion Enclosure Connections
- Troubleshooting a Wet Storage Array
- Troubleshooting a Damaged Array
- Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules
- Getting Help
- Index

Configuration: About Your Storage Array 81
9
For the selected e-mail address, in
Frequency
, select:
•
Every event
—Sends an alert e-mail whenever an event occurs. This is
the default option.
•
Every x hours
—Sends an alert e-mail after the specified time interval
if an event occurred during that time interval. You can select this
option only if you have selected either
Event + Profile
or
Event +
Support
in the
Information To Send
drop down list.
10
Click
OK
.
An alert icon appears next to each node in the Tree view where an alert is set.
To ensure that the e-mail is sent successfully:
• You must provide a SMTP mail server name and an e-mail sender address
for the e-mail addresses to work.
• The e-mail addresses that you had previously configured appear in the
Configured e-mail addresses area.
• You must use fully qualified e-mail addresses, for example,
name@mycompany.com.
• You can configure multiple e-mail addresses before you click
OK
.
Configuring SNMP Alerts
To add a management console to the list of addresses configured to receive
SNMP alerts:
1
Open the
Configure Alerts
dialog by performing one of these actions:
• In the Tree view or the Table view on the
Devices
tab in the EMW,
select a node, and select
Edit
Configure Alerts
. Go to step 3.
•In the
Setup
tab in the EMW, select
Configure Alerts.
Go to step 2.
2
Select one of the following radio buttons to specify an alert level:
•
All storage arrays
—Select this option to send an alert notification
about events on all storage arrays.
•
An individual storage array
—Select this option to send an alert
notification about events that occur in only a specified storage array.
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