Administrator Guide

PS Series Storage Array Administration
PS Series storage arrays optimize resources by automating performance and network load balancing. Additionally, PS Series storage arrays
oer all-inclusive array management software, host software, and free rmware updates.
To manage PS Series storage arrays using Dell Storage Manager, the storage arrays must be running PS Series rmware version 7.0 or later.
Topics:
• About Groups
• About Volumes
• About Snapshots
• Managing Replication Schedules
• About Access Policies
• Monitoring a PS Series Group
About Groups
A PS Series group is a fully functional iSCSI storage area network (SAN).
You create a group when you congure one or more PS Series arrays and connect them to an IP network. In this virtualized storage system,
the arrays become group members and share conguration data. A member belongs to a storage pool, and is congured with a specic
RAID policy. Each member cooperates with other members to enable the virtualization of disk storage, controllers, caches, and network
connections. Because the virtualization technology masks the underlying complexity of the storage conguration, client servers see the
group as a single entity, giving you a centralized view of the storage data.
Figure 23. PS Series Group depicts PS Series groups. Table 9. PS Series Group explains the callouts used in the gure.
Figure 23. PS Series Group
Table 9. PS Series Group
Callout Description
1 PS Series group
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