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Dell™ PowerVault™
MD3200i and MD3220i
Storage Arrays
Owner’s Manual
Regulatory Model: E03J Series and E04J Series
Regulatory Type: E03J001 and E04J001
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book.book Page 2 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Notes, Cautions, and Warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. ____________________ Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2010 Dell Inc. All rights reser
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book.book Page 3 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Inside the box of the Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Dell PowerVault Mod
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book.book Page 4 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM 3 Planning: RAID Controller Modules. . . . 31 RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features . . . 32 RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 34 Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 34 System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Cach
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book.book Page 5 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 RAID Level Migration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Segment Size Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Virtual Disk Capacity Expansion . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 6 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM 5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 60 Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 6 Configuration: About Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Out-of-Band and In-Band Management . . . . . . . . . 63 Storage Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Adding Storage Array
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book.book Page 7 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller Module Clocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 7 Configuration: Using iSCSI . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication . . . . . . . 81 Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions. . . . . . 82 Creating CHAP Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Initiator CHAP Secret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Target CHAP Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Valid Characters
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book.book Page 8 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM 9 Configuration: About Your Host . . . . . . . 93 Configuring Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Using the Mappings Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Defining a Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Removing Host Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Managing Host Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Moving a Host to a Different Host Group.
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book.book Page 9 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Creating a Security Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Changing a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Saving a Security Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Unlocking Secure Physical Disks. . . . . . . . . . 120 Erasing Secure Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Configuring Hot Spare Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . 121 Hot Spares and Rebuild. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Global Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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book.book Page 10 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Using Unconfigured Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . 138 Disk Group Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Export Disk Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Exporting a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Import Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Importing a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Storage Array Media Scan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Changing Media Scan Settings. . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 11 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . 161 12 Configuration: Premium Feature— Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS Shared Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions . . . .
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book.book Page 12 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Recopying the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Removing Copy Pairs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 13 Configuration: Premium Feature—Upgrading to High-Performance-Tier . . . . . . . . . . . 175 14 Configuration: Device Mapper Multipath for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
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book.book Page 13 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Downloading MD1200 Series Expansion Module EMM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors . . . . . . . . . 196 16 Management: Installing Array Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Rem
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book.book Page 14 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Removing the RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Installing the RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . 211 Removing a Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Installing a Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 15 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM Device Health Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Storage Array Support Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Automatically Collect the Support Bundle Data . . . . 229 Collecting the Physical Disk Data. . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Event Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Recovery Guru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Storage Array Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Viewing the Logical
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book.book Page 16 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM 20 Troubleshooting: Your Array . . . . . . . . . 249 Safety First—For you and Your Array . . . . . . . . . 249 Troubleshooting Storage Array Startup Failure . . . . 249 Troubleshooting Loss of Communication . . . . . . . 249 Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 249 Troubleshooting Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Troubleshooting Array Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 251 Trou
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book.book Page 17 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM 21 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Contents 17
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book.book Page 18 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM 18 Contents
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book.book Page 19 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM 1 Introduction See the Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory Information document for important safety information before following any procedures listed in this document. About This Document This guide familiarizes you with the functions of the MD3200i Series storage array. The guide is organized according to the tasks that you must complete after receiving your Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200i Series storage array. Planning—Information about th
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book.book Page 20 Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:14 PM • Mounting rails (2) (optional) • Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series resource media • The Rack Installation Instructions included with your rack solution describes how to install your enclosure into a rack. • Getting Started With Your System provides an overview of enclosure features, setting up your enclosure, and technical specifications. Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series Storage Array The Dell PowerVault MD3200i Series is a 2U rack-mounted ex
