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- 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
Storage volume properties
Storage Volume
Name
The name of the storage volume. You can change the name in this field.
Use Indicates whether the storage volume is Claimed, Unclaimed, or Used.
Used By The name of the extent created from the storage volume.
Storage Volume
Type
Describes the type of data stored on the storage volume: Data protected, Metadata or Normal
Integrated
Services
The name of the supporting storage array.
Thin Rebuild Indicates if a thin rebuild was selected for the storage volume.
System ID The internal system ID for the storage volume.
Block Count The number of blocks in the storage volume.
Block Size The size of a single block in kilobytes.
Capacity The size of the storage volume.
Thin Capable Indicates if the 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.
● 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.
Largest Free
Chunk
The total number of bytes in the largest range of blocks available for use on the storage volume.
Health The overall health of the storage volume. See Health states.
Health
Indications
The overall health of the storage volume. See Health states.
I/O Status The status of I/O to the storage volume. See I/O states.
Operational
Status
Indicates how the storage volume is functioning in the cluster. See Operational states.
Provision Job properties
Provision Job
Name
The optional name given to the provisioning job. If you did not provide a name for the job, the base
volume name is used.
Target Cluster The cluster on which the job was initiated.
Status The status of the job.
Status Details An explanation of the job status.
Created The date and time the job was created.
Last Updated The last date and time the job status was automatically updated.
Description A description of the volumes being created.
Volume Options The options selected for the volumes.
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