Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series Manual de usuario

Dell PowerVault MD3200i

and MD3220i Storage Arrays

Owner’s Manual

Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series

Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if

instructions are not followed.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal

injury, or death.

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Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series

Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001

2011 - 09 Rev. A01

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Contents 3

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault

MD3200i Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

MD3200i Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk

Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk

Configuration Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

2 Planning: About Your Storage Array . . . . 23

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Hardware Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . 24

Back Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . 27

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Power Supply and Cooling Fan Features . . . . . . . . 29

Power Indicator Codes and Features . . . . . . . . . . 30

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3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules. . . . 31

RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

RAID Controller Module Connectors

and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 34

Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 34

System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Write-Back Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Write-Through Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

4 Planning: MD3200i Series Storage

Array Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, and Disk Groups . . . . . 37

Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Physical Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Self-Monitoring Analysis and

Reporting Technology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Virtual Disks and Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Virtual Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

RAID Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

RAID Level Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Segment Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Virtual Disk Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

RAID Level Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

RAID Background Operations Priority . . . . . . . . . 47

Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming. . . . . . . . 48

Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Host Server-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . 51

Host Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 52

Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 54

Multi-Path Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Preferred and Alternate

Controllers and Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Virtual Disk Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Monitoring MD3200i Series System

Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 62

Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

6 Configuration: About Your

Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . . 65

Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Adding Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Setting Up Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Locating Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Naming or Renaming Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . 70

Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Viewing Storage Array Connections . . . . . . . . 72

Adding/Editing a Comment to an Existing

Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Removing Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Enabling Premium Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Failover Alert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Changing the Cache Settings on the

Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Changing Expansion Enclosure

ID Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Changing the Enclosure Order in the

Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Configuring SNMP Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller

Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

7 Configuration: Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication . . . . . . . 83

Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions. . . . . . 84

Creating CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Initiator CHAP Secret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Target CHAP Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Valid Characters for CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . 85

Changing the iSCSI Target Identification . . . . . . . . 86

Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery Settings . . . . . 86

Configuring the iSCSI Host Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings . . . . . . . . . . 89

Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session . . . . . . . . . . 90

Viewing iSCSI Statistics and Setting

Baseline Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology . . . . . . . . 92

8 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 93

Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 93

Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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Linux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 95

Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Removing Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Managing Host Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Moving a Host to a Different Host Group . . . . . . 99

Removing a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Host Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Starting or Stopping the Host

Context Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

10 Configuration: Disk Groups

and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 105

Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Changing the Virtual Disk

Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 111

Changing the Segment Size of

a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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Changing the I/O Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . . 115

Physical Disk Security with Self

Encrypting Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Saving a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Validate Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Unlocking Secure Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . . 122

Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 123

Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Enclosure Loss Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . . 129

Modifying and Removing

Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Changing Controller Ownership

of the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . 132

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 133

Removing a Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping

Using Linux DMMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Changing the RAID Controller Module

Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 137

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Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . . . 139

Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . 141

Disk Group Expansion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Using Free Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Using Unconfigured Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . 142

Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Export Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Storage Array Media Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Changing Media Scan Settings. . . . . . . . . . 146

Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . 147

11 Configuration: Premium

Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . 149

Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 150

Common Reasons for Scheduling

a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Guidelines for Creating Snapshot

Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Enabling and Disabling Snapshot

Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the

Simple Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

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