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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
If the array does not require a Name-Mapping file, you have the option of creating and using this file to customize the names
of the claimed storage volumes. For instructions to create a Name Mapping file and other configuration information, see the
Configure storage arrays for metro node procedure in the SolVe Desktop, available on Dell EMC Online Support. To provision
3PAR LUNs for metro node, see the 3PAR documentation.
Steps
1. From the GUI main menu, do one of the following:
In metro node local
a. Click Provision Storage.
b. In the View by drop-down, click Storage Volumes.
In metro node Metro
a. Click Provision Storage.
b. In the Provision on drop-down, select the cluster of the storage volume.
c. In the View by drop-down, select Storage Volumes.
2. In the Storage Arrays view, click Claim Storage.
The Claim Storage wizard is displayed.
3. Follow the instructions on the wizard screens to proceed. For additional help using the wizard, click Help.
The Claim Storage wizard
Use the Claim Storage wizard to claim storage an array. To encapsulate storage volumes already in use, see the Encapsulation
procedures in the SolVe Desktop, available on Dell EMC Online Support.
Naming storage volumes
By default, storage volumes are identified by their SCSI Vital Product Data (VPD), for example:
VPD83T3:600601604a950d00fe9bc44d11b3da11. If the array requires a Name Mapping file, use this file to map the default
storage volume names to more user-friendly names that allow you to easily identify the storage volume.
For arrays that do not require a Name Mapping file, the storage volumes are named using one of the following formats:
● <array_name><last_four_digits_of_array_serial_number>_<device_number>
● <array_name><last_four_digits_of_array_serial_number>_<LUN_number>
You can rename the storage volumes after claiming.
Selecting a storage type
Select a storage type to assign different categories of data to different types of storage media as a means of reducing total
storage cost. Categories of data can be based on levels of protection needed, performance requirements, frequency of use, and
other considerations. As an example, you could designate all storage designated as "High" to be used for highly classified or
critical information, which would be stored on more expensive, high quality storage arrays. Data designated as "Medium" might
be seldom-used data, which could be stored on a less expensive storage array, and so forth. By default, the storage type is
included in the storage volume name.
Selecting a thin-rebuild
For thinly-provisioned storage volumes, you can select if the storage volume will use thin rebuilds. Setting a thin rebuild for
storage volumes provides more information.
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