Administrator Guide

Chapter 1: Preface.........................................................................................................................7
Chapter 2: CLI Workspace and User Accounts............................................................................... 9
Configure the CLI workspace........................................................................................................................................... 9
Set the threshold for console logging.......................................................................................................................9
Set window width to 100............................................................................................................................................10
Context tree searching...............................................................................................................................................10
Chapter 3: Meta Volumes............................................................................................................. 11
About meta-volumes..........................................................................................................................................................11
Meta-volume performance and availability requirements................................................................................... 11
Moving a meta-volume..................................................................................................................................................... 12
Renaming a meta-volume.................................................................................................................................................13
Deleting a meta-volume....................................................................................................................................................13
Displaying meta-volume....................................................................................................................................................14
Verifying consistency of a meta-volume...................................................................................................................... 16
Chapter 4: System Management.................................................................................................. 17
Call-home notifications..................................................................................................................................................... 17
About call-home notifications....................................................................................................................................17
Additional documentation...........................................................................................................................................18
SupportAssist MFT feature....................................................................................................................................... 18
Event log locations............................................................................................................................................................20
System Configuration log location................................................................................................................................ 20
Hardware acceleration with VAAI.................................................................................................................................. 21
Compare and Write......................................................................................................................................................21
WriteSame (16)............................................................................................................................................................ 23
Enabling/disabling WriteSame (16)......................................................................................................................... 23
Offload copy overhead with XCOPY............................................................................................................................ 25
Enabling and disabling XCOPY using CLI...............................................................................................................25
Displaying XCOPY statistics..................................................................................................................................... 26
Renaming a metro node cluster.....................................................................................................................................26
LCD Front Panel settings................................................................................................................................................ 26
Chapter 5: Thin support in metro node........................................................................................ 27
Thin support in metro node.............................................................................................................................................27
Thin provisioning................................................................................................................................................................28
Creating thin-enabled virtual volumes....................................................................................................................28
Changing the thin personality of a virtual volume............................................................................................... 29
Thin storage management.............................................................................................................................................. 30
Thin mirroring and migration........................................................................................................................................... 31
Performing thin mirroring ..........................................................................................................................................31
About thin migrations................................................................................................................................................. 32
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