Document Outline

• Contents
• About This Guide
  • User Interface
    • Summary Tab
    • Configure Tab
    • Modify Tab
    • Tools Tab
    • iSCSI Tab
    • Support Tab
  • Other Information You May Need
• About Your Storage Array
  • Access Virtual Disk
  • Out-of-Band and In-Band Management
  • Adding Storage Arrays
    • Automatic Discovery of Storage Arrays
    • Manual Addition of a Storage Array
  • Naming Storage Arrays
  • Removing Storage Arrays
  • Setting Up Your Storage Array
  • Storage Array Support Data
  • Setting a Password
    • Password Guidelines
  • Resetting a Password
    • Connecting the Serial Cable
    • System Setup for Password Reset
    • Reset Password
  • Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Numbers
  • Configuring Alert Notifications
    • Configuring E-mail Alerts
    • Configuring SNMP Alerts
  • Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software in Windows
  • Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software in Linux
• Using iSCSI
  • Using the iSCSI Tab
  • Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication
  • Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions
    • Creating CHAP Secrets
  • Changing the iSCSI Target Identification
  • Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery
  • Configuring the MD3000i 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
• Event Monitor
  • Enabling the Event Monitor
  • Disabling the Event Monitor
• About Your Host
  • Configuring Host Access
    • Automatic Configuration
    • Manual Configuration (using SAS HBA)
    • Manual Configuration (using iSCSI)
    • Removing Host Access
  • Host Groups
    • Creating a Host Group
    • Adding a Host to a Host Group
    • Removing a Host From a Host Group
    • Moving a Host to a Different Host Group
    • Removing a Host Group
  • Host Topology
    • Host Context Agent
  • I/O Data Path Protection
    • Failover with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
  • Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks
    • Automatic Configuration
    • Manual Configuration
  • Hot Spare Drive Protection
    • Automatically Configuring Hot Spares
    • Manually Configuring Hot Spares
  • 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
  • Storage Partitioning
  • Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion
    • Disk Group Expansion
    • Virtual Disk Expansion
  • Storage Array Media Scan
    • Changing Media Scan Settings
    • Suspending the Media Scan
  • Microsoft Services
    • Virtual Disk Service
    • Volume Shadow-Copy Service
• Premium Feature-Snapshot Virtual Disks
  • Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Simple Path
    • About the Simple Path
    • Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path
    • Creating the Snapshot Using the Simple Path
  • Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Advanced Path
    • About the Advanced Path
    • Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path
    • Creating the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path
  • Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names
  • Snapshot Repository Capacity
  • Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks
    • Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk
    • Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk
    • Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk
• 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
    • Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual Disk Copy
    • Copying the Virtual Disk
  • Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy
    • Setting Copy Priority
  • Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy
  • Recopying a Virtual Disk
    • Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a Virtual Disk
    • Recopying the Virtual Disk
  • Removing Copy Pairs
• Firmware Downloads
  • Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM Packages
    • Downloading Both RAID Controller and NVSRAM Firmware
    • Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware
    • Downloading Non-redundant MSCS NVSRAM Firmware
  • Downloading Physical Disk Firmware
  • Downloading EMM Firmware
• Troubleshooting Problems
  • Recovery Guru
  • Storage Array Profile
  • Device Health Conditions
  • SMrepassist Utility
  • Support Information Package
  • Unidentified Devices
  • Recovering from an Unidentified Storage Array
• Enclosure Hardware Replacement, Maintenance, and Configuration Considerations
  • Removing and Inserting Enclosure Management Modules on Attached Expansion Enclosures
    • Removing an EMM from the Expansion Enclosure
    • Inserting an EMM into an Expansion Enclosure
  • Removing and Inserting Physical Disks
  • MD3000 Maintenance Considerations
  • MD3000 Cluster Configuration Guidelines for Standalone Host Servers
• Index