Setup Guide

Table 7. Block storage—customer responsibilities (continued)
Task Customer Provider (Dell)
Expand volume size. R/A C/I
Provide or change Logical Unit Number. R/A C/I
Map volumes to hosts and host groups. R/A C/I
Unmap volumes from host. R/A C/I
Modify volume performance profile. R/A C/I
Restore volumes and volume groups from snapshots. R/A C/I
Hosts
Add a host or host group. R/A C/I
Expand hosts and host groups. R/A C/I
Decommission hosts or delete host groups. R/A C/I
Full vCenter control (api/rest/vcenter GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE
operations)
R/A C/I
Protection policies
Apply protection policies (snapshots, replication). R/A C/I
Change protection policies (on volumes and volume groups). R/A C/I
Monitoring
Add or remove objects from the Watchlist. R/A C/I
View alerts and jobs (and acknowledge or unacknowledge). R/A C/I
The following table defines service provider responsibilities that are related to block storage features and functions. For
assistance with these tasks, select DTMS Portal from the help icon
in the element manager toolbar.
Table 8. Block storage—provider (Dell) responsibilities
Task Customer Provider (Dell)
Volumes
Migrate volumes. C/I R/A
Hosts
Initial vCenter setup. C/I R/A
Protection policies
Configure and create protection policies. C/I R/A
Modify protection policy. C/I R/A
Set up D@RE Encryption Key backups. C/I R/A
Appliance management
Add or remove an appliance. C/I R/A
Turn off a cluster or appliance. C/I R/A
Changing options on the Configuration settings page (for example, changing
a DNS server).
C/I R/A
Managing users (user administration, but not customer AD). C/I R/A
Add or remove capacity. C/I R/A
Replication
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