Administrator Guide
a. Click Get Started.
b. Read the Commercial Terms of Sale and End User License Agreement (EULA), and click Accept.
c. Specify a new user name and password for the system, and click Apply and Continue.
The Welcome panel that is displayed provides options to set up and provision your system. For more information about using these
options, see Guided setup on page 32.
NOTE: If you are unable to use the 10.0.0.x network to configure the system, see the Setting network port IP addresses
using the CLI port and serial cable appendix in the
Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Deployment Guide
.
To manually set up and provision a storage system for the first time:
1. Configure your web browser to access the PowerVault Manager as described in Web browser requirements and setup on page 11.
2. Temporarily set the management host NIC to a 10.0.0.x address or to the same IPv6 subnet to enable communication with the storage
system.
3. In a supported web browser:
• Type https://10.0.0.2 to access controller module A on an IPv4 network.
• Type https://fd6e:23ce:fed3:19d1::1 to access controller module A on an IPv6 network.
4. If the storage system is running G275 firmware, sign in to the PowerVault Manager using the user name manage and password !
manage.
For more information about signing in, see Signing in and signing out on page 13. For more information about using these options, see
Guided setup on page 32.
If the storage system is running G280 firmware:
a. Click Get Started.
b. Read the Commercial Terms of Sale and End User License Agreement (EULA), and click Accept.
c. Specify a new user name and password for the system, and click Apply and Continue.
5. Be sure that the controller modules and expansion modules have the latest firmware as described in Updating firmware on page 151.
6. Configure your system settings as described in Systems Settings panel on page 58.
7. Create disk groups and pools, and add dedicated spares to linear disk groups, as described in Adding a disk group on page 80 and
Dedicated spares on page 86.
8. Create volumes and map them to initiators, as described in Create a volume on page 87.
9. From hosts, verify volume mappings by mounting the volumes and performing read/write tests to the volumes.
10. Optionally, for replication of virtual volumes and snapshots, create peer connections and replication sets as described in Creating a
peer connection on page 119, Creating a replication set from the Replications topic on page 121, and Creating a replication set from the
Volumes topic on page 101.
NOTE:
If you are unable to use the 10.0.0.x network to configure the system, see the Setting network port IP addresses
using the CLI port and serial cable appendix in the
Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Storage System Deployment Guide
.
Using the PowerVault Manager interface
Web browser requirements and setup
• The Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Series Storage System uses Mozilla Firefox 57 and newer, Google Chrome 57 and newer,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11, or Apple Safari 10.1 and newer.
NOTE:
The help content in PowerVault Manager is not viewable if you use the Microsoft Edge browser that shipped with
Windows 10.
• To see the help window, you must enable pop-up windows.
• To optimize the display, use a color monitor and set its color quality to the highest setting.
• To navigate beyond the Sign In page (with a valid user account):
○ For Internet Explorer, set the local-intranet security option to medium or medium-low.
○ For Internet Explorer, add the network IP address of each controller as a trusted site.
○ Ensure that the browser is set to allow cookies, at least for the IP addresses of the storage system network ports.
○ If the PowerVault Manager is configured to use HTTPS, ensure that Internet Explorer is set to use TLS 1.2.
Getting started
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