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book.book Page 1 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM
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 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 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. ____________________ © 2013 Dell Inc. Trademarks used in this text: Dell™, the DELL logo, PowerEdge™, PowerVault™, and
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book.book Page 3 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Inside the Box of the Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 MD3600f Series Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2 Planni
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book.book Page 4 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM RAID Controller Module Connectors and Features . . . 34 Host Channel LED Link/Rate Indications . . . . . . . . 36 RAID Controller Module—Additional Features . . . . . 36 Battery Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Storage Array Thermal Shutdown . . . . . . . . . 37 System Password Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Cache Functions and Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Cache Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 5 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Virtual Disk Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Background Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Foreground Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Consistency Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Media Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Cycle Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Virtual Disk Operations Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Disk Group Operations. . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 6 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Load Balancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Monitoring MD3600f Series System Performance . . . 61 5 Configuration: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Enterprise Management Window . . . . . . . . . 66 Array Management Window . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 6 Configuration: About Your Storage Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Storage Arrays . . . . .
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book.book Page 7 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Configuring SNMP Alerts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Battery Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Setting the Storage Array RAID Controller Module Clocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 7 Configuration: Event Monitor . . . . . . . . . 87 Enabling or Disabling the Event Monitor . . . . . . . . 88 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 8 Conf
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book.book Page 8 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM 9 Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . 101 Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Locating a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Creating Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Changing the Virtual Disk Modification Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Changing the Virtual Disk Cache Settings . .
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book.book Page 9 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Changing Controller Ownership of the Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping . . . . . . 129 Changing the RAID Controller Module Ownership of a Disk Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Changing the RAID Level of a Disk Group . . . . . 130 Removing a Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping Using Linux D
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book.book Page 10 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM 10 Configuration: Premium Feature—Snapshot Virtual Disks . . . . . 145 Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . 146 Common Reasons for Scheduling a Snapshot Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Guidelines for Creating Snapshot Schedules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Enabling and Disabling Snapshot Schedules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Simpl
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book.book Page 11 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Protecting Against a Failed Snapshot Rollback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Previous Versions of the MD Storage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Starting a Snapshot Rollback. . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Resuming a Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . 167 Canceling a Snapshot Rollback . . . . . . . . . . 168 11 Configuration: Premium Feature—Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . 169 Types of Virtual Disk
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book.book Page 12 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Setting Copy Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Recopying a Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a Virtual Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Re-Copying a Virtual Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Removing Copy Pair
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book.book Page 13 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Virtual Disk Expansion With Remote Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Required Switch Zoning Configurations . . . . . . 190 Zoning Guidelines for Remote Replication . . . . . 190 Switch Cascading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Journaling File Systems and Remote Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Setting Up and Managing Remote Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Activating the Remote Replication
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book.book Page 14 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Resynchronizing Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . 204 Normally Synchronized Virtual Disks. . . . . . . 204 Changing Synchronization Priority and Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Unsynchronized Virtual Disks. . . . . . . . . . . 207 Automatically Resynchronizing Virtual Disks. . . 208 Manually Resynchronizing Virtual Disks . . . . . 208 Reversing Roles Between the Primary and Secondary Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 15 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Using DM Multipathing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Device Mapper Configuration Steps . . . . . . . . 221 Limitations and Known Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 15 Management: Firmware Downloads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM Packages . . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 16 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . 243 Installing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 17 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Installing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 17 Management: Firmware Inventory . . . . 267 Viewing the Firmware Inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 18 Management: System Interfaces . . . . . 269 Microsoft Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Virtual Disk Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Volume Shadow-Copy Service . . . . . . . . . . . 269 19 Troubleshooting: Your Storage Array Software . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 18 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Using Go To. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 Recovering From an Unresponsive Storage Array Condition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Locating a Physical Disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Locating an Expansion Enclosure . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Capturing the State Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 SMrepassist Utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Unidentified Devices. . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 19 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM Troubleshooting Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302 Troubleshooting Array and Expansion Enclosure Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Troubleshooting a Wet Storage Array. . . . . . . . . . 304 Troubleshooting a Damaged Array . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Troubleshooting RAID Controller Modules . . . . . . . 306 Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306 21 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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book.book Page 20 Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:03 PM 20 Contents
