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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
Thin Capable Indicates if the underlying storage volume is thinly-provisioned.
Storage Array
Family
The family of arrays that the supporting array belongs to. Possible values:
● XTREMIO — The array belongs to the XtremIO family of arrays.
● CLARiiON — The array belongs to the VNX or Unity family of arrays.
● SYMMETRIX — The array belongs to the VMAX or Symmetrix family of arrays.
● Mixed — The supporting arrays belong to different array families. For example, a RAID-1 device with
one leg on a VNX array and the other leg on a VMAX array.
● Other — metro node does not recognize the array or does not support creating thin volumes on the
array.
● - (dash) The Storage Array Family property is not populated. There may be a connectivity problem.
Stripe Depth For RAID-0, the depth of the stripe in bytes.
Health The overall health of the device. See Health states.
Health
Indications
The reasons for the device's unhealthy state. If the Health Indications include rebuilding, you can view the
rebuild status for the device by clicking the Go to Rebuild Status view link.
Operational
Status
Indicates how the device is functioning in the cluster. See Operational states.
Service Status Indicates the status of I/O to the device. See Service states.
Distributed device properties
Distributed
Device Name
The name of the device. You can change the name in this dialog box.
Transfer
Capacity
The maximum capacity at which a distributed device can mirror data on the underlying devices. The
transfer capacity is always the same as the capacity of the smallest device, since the system cannot
mirror more data than the smallest device can handle.
Virtual Volume The name of the virtual volume created on the device. By default, the virtual volume inherits the name of
the device with _vol appended at the end of the name.
Thin Capable Indicates if the underlying storage volume is thinly-provisioned.
Storage Array
Family
The family of arrays that the supporting storage array belongs to. Possible values:
● XTREMIO — The array belongs to the XtremIO family of arrays.
● CLARiiON — The array belongs to the VNX or Unity family of arrays.
● SYMMETRIX — The array belongs to the VMAX or Symmetrix family of arrays.
● Mixed — The supporting arrays belong to different array families. For example, you might have a
RAID-1 device with one leg on a VNX array and the other leg on a VMAX array.
● Other — metro node does not recognize the array or does not support creating thin volumes on the
array.
● - (dash) — The Storage Array Family property is not populated. There may be a connectivity
problem.
Rule Set The name of the rule set applied to the device. You can change the rule set in this dialog box.
Health The overall health of the device. See Health states.
Health
Indications
Lists the reasons for the device's unhealthy state. If the Health Indications of the distributed device
indicate that it is rebuilding, click the Go to Rebuild Status view link to monitor the rebuild status of the
distributed device.
Operational
Status
Indicates how the device is functioning. See Operational states.
Service Status Indicates whether I/O can proceed on the device. See Service states.
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