Dell PowerVault MD3220 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
May 2010 Rev. A00
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault
MD3200 Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Dell PowerVault MD3200
Series
Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Dell PowerVault Modular Disk
Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Other Information you May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2 Planning: About Your Storage Array . . . . 21
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Hardware Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . 22
Back Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . 25
Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Power Supply and Cooling Fan Features . . . . . . . . 27
Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules . . . . 29
RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features . . . 30
RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 32
Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 33
System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Write-Back Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Write-Through Cache. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4 Planning: MD3200 Series Storage
Array Terms and Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, and Disk Groups . . . . . 35
Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Physical Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Virtual Disks and Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Virtual Disk States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
RAID Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
RAID Level Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Segment Size. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Virtual Disk Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Cycle Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
RAID Level Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . . . . 44
Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Disk Group Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Disk Group Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
RAID Background Operations Priority . . . . . . . . . 45
Virtual Disk Migration and Disk Roaming. . . . . . . . 46
Disk Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Disk Roaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Advanced Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Host Server-to-Virtual Disk Mapping. . . . . . . . 49
Host Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Snapshot Repository Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 50
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Virtual Disk Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using Snapshot and Disk Copy Together. . . . . . 52
Multi-Path Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Preferred and Alternate Controllers
and Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Virtual Disk Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Monitoring MD3200 Series System Performance . . . . 55
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Number . . . . 73
Changing the Enclosure Order in the
Physical Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Configuring Alert Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Configuring E-mail Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Configuring SNMP Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
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Setting the Storage Array RAID Controlle
r Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 81
Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 82
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
8 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . . 83
Configuring Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Removing Host Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Managing Host Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Moving a Host to a Different Host Group. . . . . . 87
Removing a Host Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Host Topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Starting or Stopping the Host Context Agent. . . . 89
I/O Data Path Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Managing Host Port Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
9 Configuration: Disk Groups and
Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . 93
Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
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Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Changing the Virtual Disk Modification
Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . . . . 99
Changing the Segment Size of a Virtual Disk . . . 101
Changing the I/O Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Choosing an Appropriate Physical Disk Type . . . . . 103
Physical Disk Security with Self Encrypting
Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Saving a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Unlocking Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 110
Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . 111
Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . 111
Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Global Hot Spares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Hot Spare Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Hot Spare Drive Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Enclosure Loss Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . 117
Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual
Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Changing Controller Ownership of the Virtua
l Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . 120
Changing the RAID Controller Module
Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . 122
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Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership
of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . 124
Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 125
Storage Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . 128
Disk Group Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Virtual Disk Expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Using Free Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Using Unconfigured Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Export Disk Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Storage Array Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Changing Media Scan Settings . . . . . . . . . . 133
Suspending the Media Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
10 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the
Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
About the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Preparing Host Servers to Create the
Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . . 137
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the
Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
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About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Preparing Host Servers to Create
the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . 141
Creating the Snapshot Using the
Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names . . . . . . . 145
Snapshot Repository Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 149
Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . 150
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create
a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . 152
11 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS
Shared Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions . . . . . . . . . 155
Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Before you Begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Virtual Disk Copy and Modification
Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Create Copy Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Failed Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Preferred RAID Controller Module Ownership . . . . 158
Failed RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
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Copy Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Copying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Storage Array Performance During Virtual
Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Setting Copy Priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Recopying a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Preparing Host Servers to Recopy
a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Removing Copy Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
12 Configuration: Premium Feature—
Upgrading to High-Performance-Tier . . 165
13 Configuration: Device Mapper
Multipath for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Using DM Multipathing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Prerequisite Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Device Mapper Configuration Steps . . . . . . . . 169
Limitations and Known Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
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14 Management: Firmware Downloads . . . 177
Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM
Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Downloading Both RAID Controller and NVSRAM
Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware . . . . . . . . 180
Downloading Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . 183
Downloading MD1200 Series Expansion Module
EMM Firmware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology (SMART). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors . . . . . . . . 187
15 Management: Installing Array
Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Removing the Front Bezel. . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Removing a Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Installing a Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive
Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Installing a Hard Drive Into a Drive
Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
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RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Removing a RAID Controller Module Blank . . . . 197
Installing a RAID Controller Module Blank . . . . . 198
Removing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 199
Installing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 200
Opening the RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . 200
Closing the RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 201
RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit . . . . . 202
Removing the RAID Controller Module Backup
Battery Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Installing the RAID Controller Module Backup
Battery Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Removing a Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Installing a Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Removing the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Installing the Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Removing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Installing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
16 Management: Firmware Inventory . . . . 213
Viewing the Firmware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
17 Management: System Interfaces . . . . . 215
Microsoft Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
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Virtual Disk Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Volume Shadow-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . 215
18 Troubleshooting: Your Storage
Array Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Start-Up Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Device Health Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Storage Array Support Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Automatically Collect the Support Bundle Data . . . 221
Collecting the Physical Disk Data . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Event Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Recovery Guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Storage Array Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Viewing the Logical Associations. . . . . . . . . . . 226
Viewing the Physical Associations . . . . . . . . . . 226
Finding Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Using Go To. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Recovering From an Unresponsive Storage
Array Condition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Locating a Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Locating an Expansion Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Capturing the State Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
SMrepassist Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
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Unidentified Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Recovering From an Unidentified Storage Array . . . . 236
Starting or Restarting the Host Context
Agent Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
19 Troubleshooting: Your Array . . . . . . . . . 241
Safety First—For you and Your Array . . . . . . . . . . 241
Troubleshooting Storage Array Startup Failure . . . . . 241
Troubleshooting Loss of Communication . . . . . . . . 241
Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 241
Troubleshooting Power Supply/Cooling
Fan Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Troubleshooting Array Cooling Problems . . . . . . . . 243
Troubleshooting Expansion Enclosure
Management Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . 244
Troubleshooting Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Troubleshooting Array and Expansion
Enclosure Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Troubleshooting a Wet Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . 248
Troubleshooting a Damaged Array . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . 249
Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Invalid Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
ECC Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
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PCI Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Critical Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Noncritical Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
20 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Contacting Dell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
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Introduction 17
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 MD3200 Series storage
array. The guide is organized according to the tasks that you must complete
after receiving your Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200 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 MD3200 and MD3220 Storage Array Deployment Guide, available
at support.dell.com/manuals.
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18 Introduction
Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault MD3200
Series Storage Array
Unless specified MD3200 Series represents Dell PowerVault MD3200 and
Dell PowerVault MD3220.
Your MD3200 Series product package includes:
• Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series storage array
• SAS cables
• Power cables (2)
• Bezel (optional)
• Mounting rails (2) (optional)
• Dell PowerVault MD3200
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 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 12 3.5" or 24 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 96 disks 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.
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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.
•
Deployment Guide provides installation and configuration instructions for
both software and hardware.
•
Storage Manager CLI Guide provides information about using the
command line interface (CLI).
• Resource media contains all system management tools.
•
Systems Support Matrix provides information on supported software and
hardware for MD systems. The document is available at
support.dell.com/manuals .
•
Dell PowerEdge® Cluster Documentation is available at dell.com/ha.
•
Release notes or readme files are included to provide last-minute updates
to the enclosure or documentation or advanced technical reference
material intended for experienced users or technicians.
• This document as well as Dell PowerVault MD 1200 series installation
guide is available at
support.dell.com/manuals for users who incorporate
MD1200 expansion enclosures.
NOTE: Always check for updates on support.dell.com/manuals and read the
updates first because they often supersede information in other documents.
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