Administrator Guide

Create disk groups and pools.......................................................................................................................................33
Open the guided disk group and pool creation wizard..............................................................................................34
Attaching hosts and volumes in the Host Setup wizard................................................................................................ 34
Verify prerequisites in the Host Setup wizard........................................................................................................... 34
Select a host in the Host Setup wizard...................................................................................................................... 34
Group hosts in the Host Setup wizard........................................................................................................................34
Add and manage volumes in the Host Setup wizard................................................................................................ 34
Configuration summary.................................................................................................................................................35
Overall system status..........................................................................................................................................................35
Host information............................................................................................................................................................35
Port information.............................................................................................................................................................35
Capacity information..................................................................................................................................................... 36
Storage information.......................................................................................................................................................36
System health information............................................................................................................................................37
Spares information.........................................................................................................................................................37
Resolving a pool conflict caused by inserting a foreign disk group......................................................................... 37
Configuring system settings.............................................................................................................................................. 38
Set the system date and time......................................................................................................................................38
Managing users..............................................................................................................................................................39
Configuring network ports on controller modules ....................................................................................................42
Configure DNS settings................................................................................................................................................ 43
Enable or disable system-management settings....................................................................................................... 44
Change system information settings.......................................................................................................................... 45
Setting system notification settings............................................................................................................................45
Configuring SupportAssist............................................................................................................................................49
Changing host port settings......................................................................................................................................... 51
Managing scheduled tasks................................................................................................................................................. 53
Modify a schedule from the Home topic....................................................................................................................53
Delete a schedule from the Home topic.....................................................................................................................54
Chapter 3: Working in the System topic..........................................................................................55
Viewing system components.............................................................................................................................................55
Front view...................................................................................................................................................................... 55
Rear view........................................................................................................................................................................56
Table view.......................................................................................................................................................................56
Systems Settings panel...................................................................................................................................................... 58
Resetting host ports........................................................................................................................................................... 58
Rescanning disk channels...................................................................................................................................................58
Clearing disk metadata....................................................................................................................................................... 59
Clear metadata from leftover disks.............................................................................................................................59
Updating firmware...............................................................................................................................................................59
Best practices for firmware update............................................................................................................................ 59
Updating controller module firmware......................................................................................................................... 60
Updating expansion module firmware......................................................................................................................... 61
Updating disk-drive firmware........................................................................................................................................61
Using the activity progress interface.......................................................................................................................... 62
Changing FDE settings....................................................................................................................................................... 63
Changing FDE general configuration.......................................................................................................................... 63
Repurposing the system............................................................................................................................................... 64
Repurposing disks..........................................................................................................................................................64
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