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Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC Storage Systems Online Help for the metro node appliance
- Contents
- Figures
- Welcome
- Using the GUI
- Configuring GUI default settings
- Using storage hierarchy maps
- Viewing system status
- Monitoring the system
- Performance
- The Performance Monitoring dashboard
- Viewing a chart
- Modifying a dashboard layout
- Creating a custom dashboard
- Removing a chart
- Moving a chart
- Back-end Bandwidth Chart
- Back-end Throughput chart
- Back-end Errors chart
- Back-end Latency chart
- CPU utilization chart
- Heap Usage chart
- Front-end Queue Depth chart
- Front-end Bandwidth chart
- Front-end Latency chart
- Front-end Throughput chart
- Front-end Aborts chart
- Write Latency Delta chart
- WAN Port Performance chart
- WAN Latency chart
- Rebuild Status dashboard
- Virtual Volumes dashboard
- Front End Ports dashboard
- System Health
- Performance
- Provisioning storage
- Guide
- Provisioning from storage volumes
- Provision Job properties
- Distributed storage
- Storage arrays
- Storage volumes
- Devices
- About devices
- Using the Devices view
- The Create Devices wizard
- The Add Local/Remote Mirror wizards
- Viewing the status of IO to a device
- Creating a device
- Renaming a device
- Deleting a device
- Mirroring a device
- Device status
- Device component properties
- Device properties
- Distributed device properties
- Add capacity to virtual volumes
- Extent properties
- Extents
- Distributed devices
- About distributed devices
- The Distributed Devices view
- The Create Distributed Device from Claimed Storage Volumes wizard
- Distributed device rule sets
- Changing the rule set for a distributed device
- Creating a distributed device
- Deleting a distributed device
- Renaming a distributed device
- Distributed Device status
- Virtual volumes
- About virtual volumes
- The Virtual Volumes view
- The Distributed Virtual Volumes view
- Creating a virtual volume
- About virtual volume expansion
- Expanding a virtual volume using storage volumes
- Enabling or disabling remote access for a volume
- Manually assigning LUN numbers to volumes
- Deleting a volume
- Renaming a volume
- Tearing down a volume
- Virtual Volume status
- Pool properties
- Virtual volume properties
- Show ITLs dialog box
- Logical unit properties
- ALUA Support field values
- Visibility field values
- Extent or Device mobility job properties
- Metro node port properties
- Storage array properties
- Storage view properties
- Storage volume properties
- Create Virtual Volumes dialog box
- Consistency group
- About consistency groups
- Using the Consistency Groups view
- Distributed Consistency Groups view
- Create Consistency Group wizard
- Types of consistency groups
- Creating a consistency group
- Adding a volume to a consistency group
- Removing a volume from a consistency group
- Deleting a consistency group
- Consistency Group status
- Consistency group properties
- Step 1: Select or create a consistency group for the virtual volume
- Step 1: Create a consistency group
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 3: Select a storage pool
- Step 3: Select a pool for each mirror on the second cluster
- Step 3: Select a pool for each mirror in the cluster
- Step3: Create thin virtual volumes
- Select a storage view for the virtual volume(s) (optional)
- Step 5: Review your selections
- Step 6: View results
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 2: Select volume options
- Step 3: Select a storage volume to create the virtual volume
- Step 3: Select a source and target storage volume
- Step 3: Create thin volumes
- Step 3: Select a target storage volume on the remote cluster
- Step 3: Select target storage on the remote cluster
- Step 6: View results
- Show Logical Units
- Exporting storage
- Initiators and metro node ports
- Storage views
- About storage views
- Using the Storage Views screen
- The Create Storage View wizard
- Creating a storage view
- Deleting a storage view
- Renaming a storage view
- Adding or removing initiators from a storage view
- Adding virtual volumes to a storage view
- Removing virtual volumes from a storage view
- Adding or removing metro node ports from a storage view
- Storage view status
- Storage group properties
- Director properties
- Cluster properties
- Moving data
- Mobility
- Move Data Within Cluster
- Move Data Across Clusters
- Create Mobility Job wizards
- Mobility job transfer size
- Creating a mobility job
- Viewing job details
- Committing a job
- Canceling a job
- Pausing a job
- Resuming a job
- Removing the record of a job
- Changing a job transfer size
- Searching for a job
- Mobility job status
- Notifications
Welcome to metro node
Metro node is a Distributed Storage Federation solution that provides
Local or Distributed Federation within a single data center, or
between two clusters within synchronous distances.
● Mobility—Move and relocate Virtual Machines, applications, and
data over distance.
● Availability—Create and maintain high-availability storage
infrastructure by mirroring across locations.
● Collaboration—Enable concurrent read/write access to data
across locations.
For more information:
● Dell EMC Online Support
● Release Notes for metro node feature
● CLI Guide for metro node feature
● Administration Guide for metro node feature
● Security Configuration Guide for metro node feature
● Configuration Guide for metro node feature
● SolVe Online
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What's New?
Notifications
The Notification page is the consolidated area of all the appliance alerts and events for the cluster. Events provide information
about changes to the system, which indicate there is a problem with the system. Alerts are categorized by severity which
indicates the urgency of the alert.
On the notifications tab, there are two alert tabs :
Platform Alerts: You can monitor the status of metro node platform which includes alerts at director level and cluster level. In
the Live alerts drop-down, you can view alerts that were created during the last 48 hours.
Hardware Alerts: You can monitor the status of metro node hardware which includes alerts that are generated at hardware
level. In the Live alerts drop-down, you can view alerts that were created during the last 48 hours.
In the details of each alert, additional information can be found including the Severity, Message, Corrective Action, and other
properties. This information is useful in troubleshooting scenarios and allows users to remediate issues seen on the system.
When alerts are no longer relevant or are resolved, the system automatically clears the alerts with no user intervention. This
action ensures that cleared alerts are hidden from the default view so that only relevant issues are displayed. Acknowledging an
alert does not indicate that the issue is resolved. Acknowledged alerts can be viewed as well through table filtering options.
NOTE: Historical alerts are not supported for internal partner drop.
Configure Alerts
Under settings, go to Notifications. The user can also configure alerts at various levels.
● Enable or disable alert at alert condition ID level
○ For example: 0x30004 is the condition ID for Storage Volume Unreachable alert and if the customer wants to disable
this alert, select that particular alert and disable 0x30004. With this, whenever metro node hits 0x30004, it will not be
listed in GUI, and also a dial home event will not be generated.
● Configure alerts at component level
○ When the user click Configure notifications button, then side panel shows the options to disable the alerts at
components level. For example: If System Volume is disabled, then whenever metro node presses any system volume-
related alerts, it will not be listed in GUI, and also a dial home event will not be generated.
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