Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series User manual

Dell PowerVault MD3200
and MD3220 Storage Arrays
Owner’s Manual
Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series
Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001
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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
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault MD3200
Series Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
MD3200 Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Dell PowerVault Modular
Disk Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules . . . . 31
RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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RAID Controller Module Connectors
and Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 34
Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 35
System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Write-Back Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Write-Through Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4 Planning: MD3200 Series Storage
Array Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, and Disk Groups . . . . . 37
Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Virtual Disk Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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
Monitoring MD3200 Series System
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Number . . . . 75
Changing the Enclosure Order in the
Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
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Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller
Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
7 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 83
Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 84
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
8 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . . 85
Configuring Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Removing Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Managing Host Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Moving a Host to a Different Host Group. . . . . . 89
Removing a Host Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Host Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Starting or Stopping the Host
Context Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
9 Configuration: Disk Groups and
Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . 95
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Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Changing the Virtual Disk
Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 101
Changing the Segment Size of
a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 105
Physical Disk Security with Self
Encrypting Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Saving a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Validate Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Unlocking Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 113
Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . 113
Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . 114
Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Global Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Enclosure Loss Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . 119
Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual
Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Changing Controller Ownership of the
Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . 122
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Changing the RAID Controller Module
Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 124
Removing a Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
Using Linux DMMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Changing the RAID Controller Module
Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 127
Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 129
Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 131
Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Using Free Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Using Unconfigured Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Export Disk Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Storage Array Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Changing Media Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . 136
Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
10 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 140
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Common Reasons for Scheduling a
Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Guidelines for Creating
Snapshot Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Enabling and Disabling Snapshot
Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using
the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 143
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the
Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . 147
Creating the Snapshot Using
the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 151
Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 155
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a
Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 157
Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Rules and Guidelines for Performing a
Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Protecting Against a Failed
Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Previous Versions of the
MD Storage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Starting a Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . . 159
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Resuming a Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . 160
Canceling a Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . 161
11 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Types of Virtual Disk Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Offline Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Online Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an
MSCS Shared Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions . . . . . . . . . . 166
Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Before you Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Virtual Disk Copy and Modification
Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Create Copy Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Failed Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Preferred RAID Controller Module Ownership . . . . . 170
Failed RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Copy Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Storage Array Performance During
Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Setting Copy Priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
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Recopying a Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Preparing Host Servers to
Recopy a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Re-Copying a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Removing Copy Pairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
12 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Upgrading to High-
Performance-Tier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
13 Configuration: Device Mapper
Multipath for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Using DM Multipathing Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Prerequisite Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Device Mapper Configuration Steps . . . . . . . 181
Limitations and Known Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
14 Management: Firmware
Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Downloading RAID Controller and
NVSRAM Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Downloading Both RAID Controller and
NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . 192
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Downloading Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . . 195
Downloading MD1200 Series Expansion Module
EMM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology (SMART) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors . . . . . . . . . 198
15 Management: Installing Array
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Removing a Hard Drive From a
Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Installing a Hard Drive Into a
Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Removing a RAID Controller Module Blank . . . . 209
Installing a RAID Controller Module Blank . . . . . 210
Removing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 211
Installing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 212
Opening the RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . 212
Closing the RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 213
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RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit. . . . . 214
Removing the RAID Controller Module
Backup Battery Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Installing the RAID Controller Module
Backup Battery Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . 216
Removing a Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Installing a Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Removing the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Installing the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Removing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Installing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
16 Management: Firmware Inventory . . . . 225
Viewing the Firmware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . 225
17 Management: System Interfaces. . . . . . 227
Microsoft Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Virtual Disk Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Volume Shadow-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . 227
18 Troubleshooting: Your Storage
Array Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Start-Up Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
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Device Health Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Storage Array Support Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Automatically Collect the Support Bundle Data . . . . 233
Collecting the Physical Disk Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Recovery Guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Storage Array Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Viewing the Logical Associations. . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Viewing the Physical Associations . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Finding Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Using Go To . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Recovering From an Unresponsive Storage
Array Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Locating a Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Locating an Expansion Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Capturing the State Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
SMrepassist Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Unidentified Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Recovering From an Unidentified Storage Array . . . . 248
Starting or Restarting the Host Context
Agent Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
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19 Troubleshooting: Your Array . . . . . . . . . 253
Safety First—For you and Your Array . . . . . . . . . 253
Troubleshooting Storage Array Startup Failure . . . . 253
Troubleshooting Loss of Communication . . . . . . . 253
Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 253
Troubleshooting Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Troubleshooting Array Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 255
Troubleshooting Expansion Enclosure
Management Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . 256
Troubleshooting Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Troubleshooting Array and Expansion
Enclosure Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Troubleshooting a Wet Storage Array . . . . . . . . . 260
Troubleshooting a Damaged Array . . . . . . . . . . 261
Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . 261
Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Invalid Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
ECC Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
PCI Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Critical Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Noncritical Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
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20 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
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Introduction 19
1
Introduction
NOTE: Unless specified, MD3200 Series represents Dell PowerVault MD3200 and
Dell PowerVault MD3220 Storage Arrays.
WARNING: See the Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory Information document
for important safety information before following any procedures listed in this
document.
About This Document
This guide familiarizes you with the functions of the Dell PowerVault
MD3200 Series storage array. The guide is organized according to the tasks
that you must complete after receiving your MD3200 Series storage array.
The tasks are:
Planning—Information about the storage array and its features.
Configuration—Tasks that must be completed to ensure that your storage
array performs optimally.
Management—Tasks that may be performed to ensure that the storage array
components are up to date and performing properly, including removal and
installation of storage array components.
Troubleshooting—Tasks that you must complete to resolve problems that
may occur with the storage array.
Additional information on these and other topics can be found in the Dell
PowerVault MD3200 and MD3220 Storage Array Deployment Guide at
support.dell.com/manuals.
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20 Introduction
Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault MD3200
Series Storage Array
Your MD3200 Series product package includes:
• Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series storage array
• SAS cables
• Power cables (2)
• Front Bezel (optional)
• Mounting rails (2) (optional)
• MD3200
Series resource media
•
Rack Installation Instructions
• Getting Started With Your System (provides an overview of enclosure
features, setting up your enclosure, and technical specifications)
MD3200 Series Storage Array
The Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series is a 2U rack-mounted external
redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage array capable of
accommodating up to twelve 3.5" or twenty four 2.5" 6.0-Gbps Serial-
Attached SCSI (SAS) disks. The MD3200 Series storage arrays can be daisy-
chained with MD1200 Series expansion enclosures, providing access to a
maximum of 120 disks (or 192 disks with Premium Feature activation) in the
entire storage array. Connectivity between the storage array and the host
server is provided by a Dell 6.0-Gbps SAS Host Bus Adapter (SAS 6Gb HBA).
Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager
Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) is a graphical user
interface (GUI) application, used to configure and manage one or more
MD3200 Series Storage Arrays. The MDSM software is located on the
MD3200 Series resource media.
Other Information you May Need
WARNING: See the safety and regulatory information that shipped with your
system. Warranty information may be included within this document or as a
separate document.
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