Dell POWERVAULT MD3620I User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Introduction
- Planning: About Your Storage Array
- Planning: RAID Controller Modules
- Planning: MD3600i 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
- Displaying Failover Alert
- Changing the Cache Settings on the Storage Array
- Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Numbers
- Changing the Enclosure Order in the Physical Pane
- Configuring Alert Notifications
- Battery Settings
- Configuration: Using iSCSI
- Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication
- Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions
- Creating CHAP Secrets
- Changing the iSCSI Target Identification
- Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery Settings
- Configuring the iSCSI Host Ports
- Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings
- Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session
- Viewing iSCSI Statistics and Setting Baseline Statistics
- Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology
- 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
- Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings
- Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
- Changing Controller Ownership of the Virtual Disk
- Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
- Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership of a Disk Group
- Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group
- Removing a Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping Using Linux DMMP
- 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
- Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk
- Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Simple Path
- Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Advanced Path
- Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names
- Snapshot Repository Capacity
- Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk
- Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks
- Snapshot Rollback
- Configuration: Premium Feature- Virtual Disk Copy
- Types of Virtual Disk Copies
- 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: Device Mapper Multipath for Linux
- 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: Installing Array Components
- 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
- Retrieving Trace Buffers
- Collecting 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 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