Administrator Guide
PS Group Management
Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage your PS Groups. For each PS Group, you can congure volumes, snapshots, and
replications between a
PS Group and Storage Center. You can also congure access policies to grant volume access to hosts.
FluidFS Cluster Management
Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage your FluidFS clusters and monitor FluidFS cluster status and performance. A
FluidFS cluster is a scale-out NAS solution consisting of FS8600 NAS appliances, the Fluid File System (FluidFS), and Storage
Center
. FluidFS, a scale-out le system, provides high performance, highly scalable, and ecient le storage for Windows, UNIX, and
Linux clients. Combined with Storage Center, FluidFS provides a unied block and le storage solution.
Related link
FluidFS v5 Cluster Management
Dell Fluid Cache for SAN Cluster Management
Storage Manager allows you to centrally manage your Dell Fluid Cache for SAN clusters and monitor Dell Fluid Cache for SAN cluster
status and performance. Dell Fluid Cache for SAN is a server-side caching accelerator that makes high speed PCIe SSDs a shared,
distributed cache resource.
Fluid Cache is deployed on clusters of PowerEdge servers within a SAN, connected by RoCE-enabled
network adapters. Combined with Storage Center, Dell Fluid Cache for SAN provides reduced IO latency.
Related link
Dell Fluid Cache for SAN Cluster Administration
Servers
Storage Manager allows you to manage the storage allocated to each server and provides Storage Center integration with Windows
and VMware servers. There are two ways that servers can be managed: adding them to Storage Centers and registering them to the
Storage Manager Data Collector.
Related link
Storage Center Server Administration
SMI-S
Storage Manager supports the Storage Management Initiative Specication (SMI‑S), a standard interface specication developed by
the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). SMI-S allows Storage Manager to interoperate with storage management
software and hardware from other vendors.
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SMI-S
Disaster Recovery Features
Storage Manager allows you to plan and implement a disaster recovery strategy for your Storage Center volumes.
Remote Storage Centers and Quality of Service
Storage Centers can be connected to each other by Fibre Channel or iSCSI to allow data to be copied between them. Storage
Manager allows you to coordinate connected Storage Centers to distribute copies of your data to remote sites, ensuring that your
data is protected and available even if one site goes down.
Replication Quality of Service (QoS) denitions allow you to control when and how much bandwidth is used for communication
between Storage Centers.
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Remote Storage Centers and Replication QoS
Storage Manager Overview
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