Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series User manual

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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Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series
Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001
May 2010 Rev. A00
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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
Dell PowerVault 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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. . . . . . . . 50
Host Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 52
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 53
Multi-Path Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Preferred and Alternate Controllers and Paths . . 54
Virtual Disk Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Monitoring MD3200i Series System Performance . . . 56
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5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 60
Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6 Configuration: About Your
Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . . 63
Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Adding Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Setting Up Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Locating Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Naming or Renaming Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . 68
Setting a Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Viewing Storage Array Connections . . . . . . . . 70
Adding/Editing a Comment to an
Existing Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Removing Storage Arrays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Enabling Premium Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Failover Alert Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Changing the Cache Settings
on the Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Changing Expansion Enclosure
ID Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Changing the Enclosure Order
in the Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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Setting the Storage Array RAID
Controller Module Clocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7 Configuration: Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication . . . . . . . 81
Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions. . . . . . 82
Creating CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Initiator CHAP Secret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Target CHAP Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Valid Characters for CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . 83
Changing the iSCSI Target Identification . . . . . . . . 84
Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery Settings . . . . . 84
Configuring the iSCSI Host Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings . . . . . . . . . . 87
Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session . . . . . . . . . . 88
Viewing iSCSI Statistics and
Setting Baseline Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology . . . . . . . . 90
8 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 91
Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 91
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
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9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 93
Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Removing Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Managing Host Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Moving a Host to a Different Host Group . . . . . . 97
Removing a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Host Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Starting or Stopping the Host Context Agent . . . . 99
I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
10 Configuration: Disk Groups
and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . 103
Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Changing the Virtual Disk
Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . 109
Changing the Segment Size of a Virtual Disk . . . 111
Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 113
Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting Disk . . 113
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Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Saving a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Unlocking Secure Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . . 120
Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 121
Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Enclosure Loss Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . . 126
Modifying and Removing
Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Changing Controller Ownership
of the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . 129
Changing the RAID Controller
Module Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . 130
Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 131
Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Changing the RAID Controller Module
Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 133
Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 135
Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 137
Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Using Free Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
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10 Contents
Using Unconfigured Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . 138
Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Export Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Storage Array Media Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Changing Media Scan Settings. . . . . . . . . . 142
Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . 143
11 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk
Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 147
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk
Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Preparing Host Servers to Create
the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . 151
Creating the Snapshot
Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 154
Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 159
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