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Dell PowerVault MD3600f and
MD3620f 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, June 8, 2011 5:01 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 publication is subject to change without notice. © 2011 Dell Inc. All rights r
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book.book Page 3 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Inside the Box of the Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Other Information You May Need . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 4 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features . . . 32 Host Channel LED Link/Rate Indications . . . . . . . . 34 RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 34 Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 35 System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 5 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 6 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Load Balancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Monitoring MD3600f Series System Performance . . . 59 5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 64 Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 6 Configuration: About Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Out–of–Band and In–Band Managem
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book.book Page 7 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Configuring E–mail Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Configuring SNMP Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 7 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 85 Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 86 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Linux
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book.book Page 8 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM 9 Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . 99 Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Creating Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Changing the Virtual Disk Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . . .
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book.book Page 9 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . 128 Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 129 Restricted Mappings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership of a Virtual Disk or a Disk Group . . . . 131 Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group. . . . . . . . 133 Storage Partitioning . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 10 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path . . . . . . . . . 145 Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 About the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path . . . . . . . 149 Creating the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names .
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book.book Page 11 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Failed Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Preferred RAID Controller Module Ownership . . . . . 167 Failed RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Copy Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Copying the Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Setting Copy Priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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book.book Page 12 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Primary and Secondary Virtual Disk Pairs . . . . 179 Using Remote Replication With Other Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Storage Partitioning With Remote Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Snapshot Virtual Disk With Remote Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Virtual Disk Copy With Remote Replication . . . 181 Virtual Disk Expansion With Remote Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Required
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book.book Page 13 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Viewing the Properties Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Viewing Logical Elements of the Secondary Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Viewing the Physical Components or Logical Elements of the Primary Virtual Disk. . . . 193 Virtual Disk Status Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Changing Write Mode and Consistency Group Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Resynchronizing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Normal
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book.book Page 14 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Disabling the Remote Replication Premium Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 14 Configuration: Device Mapper Multipath for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Using DM Multipathing Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Device Mapper Configuration Steps . . . . . . . 213 Limitations and Known Issues. . . . . .
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book.book Page 15 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Removing a RAID Controller Module Blank . . . . 229 Installing a RAID Controller Module Blank. . . . . 230 Removing a RAID Controller Module. . . . . . . . 231 Installing a RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 232 Opening the RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . 233 Closing the RAID Controller Module . . . . . . . . 234 RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit . . . . . 235 Removing the RAID Controller Module Backup Battery Unit . . . . .
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book.book Page 16 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Downloading Physical Disk Firmware . . . . . . . . 253 Downloading MD1200 Series Expansion Module EMM Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors . . . . . . . . 257 17 Management: Firmware Inventory . . . . 259 Viewing the Firmware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . 259 18 Management: System Interfaces . . .
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book.book Page 17 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Storage Array Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 Viewing the Logical Associations. . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Viewing the Physical Associations . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Finding Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Using Go To . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Recovering From an Unresponsive Storage Array Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276 Locating a Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 18 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Troubleshooting Power Supply/Cooling Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Troubleshooting Array Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 293 Troubleshooting Expansion Enclosure Management Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 294 Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . 295 Troubleshooting Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 Troubleshooting Array and Expansion Enclosure Connections . . . . . . . . . . 297 Troubleshooting a Wet St
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book.book Page 19 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM 1 Introduction NOTE: Throughout the document, Dell PowerVault MD3600f series storage array refers to both Dell PowerVault MD3600f and Dell PowerVault MD3620f. 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 MD3600f Series storage array. The guide is organized
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book.book Page 20 Wednesday, June 8, 2011 5:01 PM Inside the Box of the Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series Storage Array Unless specified, MD3600f Series represents Dell PowerVault MD3600f and Dell PowerVault MD3620f. Your MD3600f Series product package includes: • Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series storage array • Small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver (2 per controller) • Fiber optic cables (optional) • Power cables (2) • Bezel (optional) • Mounting rails (2) (optional) • Dell PowerVault M
