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Table of Contents

Preface .................................................................................................................................................... xiii

Audience.................................................................................................................................................................. xiii

Organization ............................................................................................................................................................ xiii

Conventions..............................................................................................................................................................xiv

Overview of EqualLogic Products ...........................................................................................................................xiv

Technical Support and Customer Service .............................................................................................................. xvii

1 Storage solutions for all enterprises .................................................................................................. 1-1

About PS Series groups........................................................................................................................................... 1-1

How groups work ............................................................................................................................................. 1-1

High-end features in an affordable iSCSI san .................................................................................................. 1-2

Modular hardware............................................................................................................................................. 1-2

Seamless online scalability............................................................................................................................... 1-3

Interoperability ................................................................................................................................................. 1-3

Easy setup and management............................................................................................................................. 1-3

Automatic SAN operation ................................................................................................................................ 1-4

Dynamic load balancing ................................................................................................................................... 1-4

Robust security for group administration ......................................................................................................... 1-4

Robust security for data access......................................................................................................................... 1-4

Advanced functionality at no extra cost ........................................................................................................... 1-5

Host-based applications........................................................................................................................................... 1-6

Part I: Managing Groups

2 Common group tasks.......................................................................................................................... 2-1

Setting the group time ............................................................................................................................................. 2-1

Creating a local administration account.................................................................................................................. 2-1

Setting up event notifications.................................................................................................................................. 2-1

Configuring CHAP for initiator authentication....................................................................................................... 2-2

Configuring SNMP access to the group.................................................................................................................. 2-2

Setting group-wide volume defaults ....................................................................................................................... 2-2

Setting the RAID policy for a member ................................................................................................................... 2-2

Configuring member network interfaces................................................................................................................. 2-2

3 Group Manager user interfaces......................................................................................................... 3-1

About the Group Manager GUI .............................................................................................................................. 3-1

Starting the GUI from a Web browser .................................................................................................................... 3-1

Installing and starting the GUI application ............................................................................................................. 3-1

Uninstalling the GUI application...................................................................................................................... 3-2

Navigating the GUI ................................................................................................................................................. 3-2

Keyboard shortcuts ........................................................................................................................................... 3-3

GUI icons.......................................................................................................................................................... 3-4

Accessing the alarms panel............................................................................................................................... 3-4

Displaying the tools panel ................................................................................................................................ 3-5

Customizing the GUI .............................................................................................................................................. 3-5

Setting general GUI policies............................................................................................................................. 3-5

Setting GUI communication policies ............................................................................................................... 3-6

Setting alarm policies ....................................................................................................................................... 3-6