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
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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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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Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create
a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . 161
12 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for
an MSCS Shared Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions . . . . . . . . . . 165
Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Before you Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Virtual Disk Copy and
Modification Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Create Copy Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Failed Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Preferred RAID Controller Module Ownership . . . . . 168
Failed RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Copy Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Storage Array Performance
During Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Setting Copy Priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Recopying a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
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Preparing Host Servers to
Recopy a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Removing Copy Pairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
13 Configuration: Premium Feature—Upgrading
to High-Performance-Tier . . . . . . . . . . . 175
14 Configuration: Device Mapper
Multipath for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Using DM Multipathing Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Prerequisite Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Device Mapper Configuration Steps . . . . . . . 179
Linux Host Server Reboot Best Practices . . . . 183
Important Information About Special Partitions . 183
Limitations and Known Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
15 Management: Firmware Downloads . . . 187
Downloading RAID Controller
and NVSRAM Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Downloading Both RAID Controller
and NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . 190
Downloading Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . 192
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Downloading MD1200 Series Expansion
Module EMM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Self-Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology (SMART) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors . . . . . . . . . 196
16 Management: Installing
Array Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Removing a Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Installing a Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Removing a Hard Drive
From a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Installing a Hard Drive Into a Drive Carrier. . . . . 205
RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Removing a RAID Controller Module Blank . . . . 205
Installing a RAID Controller Module Blank . . . . . 206
Removing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 207
Installing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 208
Opening the RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . 208
Closing the RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 209
RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit . . . . . 210
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Removing the RAID Controller
Module Backup Battery Unit . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Installing the RAID Controller
Module Backup Battery Unit . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . 211
Removing a Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Installing a Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Removing the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Installing the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Removing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Installing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
17 Management: Firmware Inventory . . . . 221
Viewing the Firmware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . 221
18 Management: System Interfaces. . . . . . 223
Microsoft Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Virtual Disk Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Volume Shadow-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . 223
19 Troubleshooting: Your Storage
Array Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Start-Up Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
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Device Health Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Storage Array Support Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Automatically Collect the Support Bundle Data . . . . 229
Collecting the Physical Disk Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Recovery Guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Storage Array Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Viewing the Logical Associations. . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Viewing the Physical Associations . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Finding Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Using Go To . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Recovering From an Unresponsive
Storage Array Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Locating a Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Locating an Expansion Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Capturing the State Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
SMrepassist Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Unidentified Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Recovering From an Unidentified Storage Array . . . . 244
Starting or Restarting the Host
Context Agent Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
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20 Troubleshooting: Your Array . . . . . . . . . 249
Safety First—For you and Your Array . . . . . . . . . 249
Troubleshooting Storage Array Startup Failure . . . . 249
Troubleshooting Loss of Communication . . . . . . . 249
Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 249
Troubleshooting Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Troubleshooting Array Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 251
Troubleshooting Expansion
Enclosure Management Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . 253
Troubleshooting Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Troubleshooting Array and
Expansion Enclosure Connections . . . . . . . . . . 255
Troubleshooting a Wet Storage Array . . . . . . . . . 255
Troubleshooting a Damaged Array . . . . . . . . . . 256
Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . 257
Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Invalid Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
ECC Errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
PCI Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Critical Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Noncritical Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
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21 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
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Introduction 19
1
Introduction
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 MD3200i Series storage
array. The guide is organized according to the tasks that you must complete
after receiving your Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200i Series storage array.
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 the may be performed to ensure 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 MD3200i and MD3220i Storage Array Deployment Guide,
available at support.dell.com/manuals.
Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault MD3200i
Series Storage Array
Unless specified MD3200i Series represents Dell PowerVault MD3200i and
Dell PowerVault MD3220i.
Your MD3200i Series product package includes:
• Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series storage array
• Power cables
• Bezel (optional)
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20 Introduction
• Mounting rails (2) (optional)
• Dell PowerVault MD3200i
Series resource media
• The Rack Installation Instructions included with your rack solution
describes how to install your enclosure into a rack.
•
Getting Started With Your System provides an overview of enclosure
features, setting up your enclosure, and technical specifications.
Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series Storage Array
The Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series is a 2U rack-mounted external
redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage array capable of
accommodating up to 12 3.5-inch or 24 2.5-inch 6.0-Gbps Serial-Attached
SCSI (SAS) disks. The MD3200i Series storage arrays can be daisy-chained
with MD1200 Series expansion enclosures, providing access to a maximum of
96 disks in the entire storage system. Connectivity between the storage array
and the host server is provided by a standard Ethernet connection.
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
MD3200i Series Storage Arrays. The MDSM software is located on the
MD3200i Series resource media.
Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Configuration Utility
Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Configuration Utility (MDCU) is an iSCSI
configuration wizard that can be used in conjunction with MDSM to simplify
the configuration of iSCSI connections. The MDCU software is located on
the MD3200i 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.
• Getting Started Guide provides an overview of setting up and cabling your
storage array.
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