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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
Best practices
● If the storage volume is larger than the wanted virtual volume, create an extent the size of the wanted virtual volume. Do
not create smaller extents, and then use different RAID types to concatenate or stripe the extents.
● If the storage volume is smaller than the wanted virtual volume, create a single extent per storage volume, and then use
devices to concatenate or stripe these extents into a larger device.
When a storage volume fails to create an extent
The View Results dialog box shows any storage volumes that failed to complete the operation. It may happen for any of the
following reasons:
● The storage volume may have become unreachable shortly before or during the operation.
● The storage volume may have started to return read or write failures on other extents that have already been exported as
virtual volumes.
If it occurs, investigate the status of the storage volume in the Storage volumes view and proceed accordingly.
Creating an extent
About this task
Create extents from storage volumes. You can create an extent equal to the size of the selected storage volume, or less than
the capacity of the storage volume, and use the unused capacity later. You can create a maximum of 128 extents per storage
volume.
Steps
1. From the GUI main menu, do one of the following:
a. In a metro node Local:
i. Select Provision Storage.
ii. In the View by drop-down, select Extents.
b. In a metro node Metro:
i. Select Provision Storage.
ii. In the Provision on drop-down, select the cluster of the extent.
iii. In the View by drop-down, select Extents.
2. In the Extents view, click CREATE.
The Create Extents wizard is displayed.
3. Complete the wizard. For additional help on any of the wizard screens, click Help.
Renaming an extent
About this task
You can rename an extent at any time.
Steps
1. From the GUI main menu, do one of the following:
● In a metro node Local:
a. Select Provision Storage.
b. In the View by drop-down, select Extents.
● In a metro node Metro:
a. Select Provision Storage.
b. In the Provision on drop-down, select the cluster of the extent.
c. In the View by drop-down, select Extents.
2. In the Extents view, click the extent name link.
3. In the Extent Properties panel, click Rename and type a new name for the extent in the Extent Name field.
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