Hardware manual

Group Administration Table of Contents
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Modifying the group IP address or group name ............................................................................................... 5-5
Modifying the group membership password.................................................................................................... 5-6
Shutting down a group...................................................................................................................................... 5-6
Enabling or disabling performance load balancing (advanced) ....................................................................... 5-6
6 Group members .................................................................................................................................. 6-1
Displaying Group members .................................................................................................................................... 6-1
Displaying member details...................................................................................................................................... 6-1
Member status tab............................................................................................................................................. 6-1
Enclosure tab .................................................................................................................................................... 6-2
Controllers tab .................................................................................................................................................. 6-3
Disks tab ........................................................................................................................................................... 6-3
Network tab ...................................................................................................................................................... 6-3
Connections tab ................................................................................................................................................ 6-4
Service tab ........................................................................................................................................................ 6-4
Member RAID policies .................................................................................................................................... 6-4
RAID level characteristics................................................................................................................................ 6-5
Supported RAID policy conversions................................................................................................................ 6-6
Setting the RAID policy and pool for a new member ...................................................................................... 6-6
Converting a RAID policy................................................................................................................................ 6-7
About member network configuration .................................................................................................................... 6-7
Member network requirements and recommendations .................................................................................... 6-8
Configuring redundant network connections ............................................................................................. 6-8
Configuring redundant control modules .................................................................................................... 6-8
Configuring redundant network switches .................................................................................................. 6-9
Displaying the member network configuration................................................................................................ 6-9
Configuring network interfaces........................................................................................................................ 6-9
Enabling or disabling a network interface...................................................................................................... 6-10
Unconfiguring a network interface................................................................................................................. 6-10
Modifying the default gateway for a member ................................................................................................ 6-10
Modifying a member name or description ............................................................................................................ 6-11
About write cache operations................................................................................................................................ 6-11
Setting write cache policies ............................................................................................................................ 6-11
Modifying write cache policies ...................................................................................................................... 6-12
About member firmware ....................................................................................................................................... 6-12
Firmware update considerations and prerequisites......................................................................................... 6-13
Updating member firmware............................................................................................................................ 6-13
Procedure for updating firmware ............................................................................................................. 6-13
Disallowing member firmware downgrades ......................................................................................................... 6-14
Removing a member from the group .................................................................................................................... 6-14
Shutting down a member....................................................................................................................................... 6-14
Restarting a member.............................................................................................................................................. 6-15
Part II: Using Group Storage Space
7 Storage pools ....................................................................................................................................... 7-1
About storage pools................................................................................................................................................. 7-1
Configuring a storage pool...................................................................................................................................... 7-1
Creating a storage pool............................................................................................................................................ 7-2
Displaying storage pools ......................................................................................................................................... 7-3