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System Manager setup

Access System Manager

Setup wizard overview

FAQs

What if I don’t see all of my hardware components?

What if I don’t see all of my hosts?

How does identifying applications help me manage my storage system?

What is a workload?

How do I configure the delivery method for AutoSupport?

How do I know if I should accept the recommended pool configuration?

System Manager has not detected any hosts. What do I do?

Unified Manager setup

Install Unified Manager

Access Unified Manager

Main interface

System Manager interface overview

View performance data

Performance graphs and guidelines

Performance terminology

View graphical performance data

View and save tabular performance data

Interpret performance data

View storage hierarchy

Manage interface settings

Manage password protection

Set default capacity values

Set defaults for performance graphs

Configure login banner

Manage session timeouts

Manage notifications

Problem notifications overview

View and act on operations in progress

Recover from problems using Recovery Guru

FAQs

What are the supported browsers?

What are the keyboard shortcuts?

How do performance statistics for individual volumes relate to the total?

Why does data display as zero in the graphs and table?

What does the Latency graph show?

What does the IOPS graph show?

What does the MiB/s graph show?

What does the CPU graph show?

What does the Headroom graph show?

Where can I find more information about display preferences?

Pools and volume groups

Concepts

How pools and volume groups work

Selecting a pool or volume group

Automatic versus manual pool creation

Configure storage

Create pool automatically

Create pool manually

Create volume group

Add capacity to pool or volume group

Manage storage

Check volume redundancy

Delete pool or volume group

Consolidate free capacity for a volume group

Export/Import volume groups

Locate drive used for storage

Remove capacity

Modify pool and group settings

Change configuration settings for a pool

Change configuration settings for a volume group

Enable or disable resource provisioning (existing volumes)

Enable or disable resource provisioning (new volumes)

Enable security

Manage SSD cache

How SSD Cache works

SSD Cache restrictions

Create SSD Cache

Change SSD Cache settings

View SSD Cache statistics

Manage reserved capacity

How reserved capacity works

Increase capacity

Decrease capacity

Change capacity for snapshot group

Change capacity for snapshot volume

Change capacity consistency group member volume

Change capacity settings for mirrored pair volume

Cancel pending snapshot image

Delete snapshot group

FAQs

What is a volume group?

What is a pool?

What is reserved capacity?

What is FDE/FIPS security?

What is redundancy check?

What are the differences between pools and volume groups?

Why would I want to manually configure a pool?

Why are capacity alerts important?

Why can’t I increase my preservation capacity?

Is there a limit on the number of drives I can remove from a pool?

What media types are supported for a drive?

Why are some drives not showing up?

How do I maintain shelf/drawer loss protection?

What is the optimal drive positioning for pools and volume groups?

What RAID level is best for my application?

What is Data Assurance?

What is secure-capable (Drive Security)?

What do I need to know about increasing reserved capacity?

Why can’t I choose another amount to decrease by?

Why do I need reserved capacity for each member volume?

How do I view and interpret all SSD Cache statistics?

What is optimization capacity for pools?

What is optimization capacity for volume groups?

What is resource provisioning capable?

What do I need to know about the resource-provisioned volumes feature?

Volumes and workloads

Concepts

How volumes work

How workloads work

Workflow for creating volumes

Data integrity and data security

SSD Cache and volumes

Actions you can perform on volumes

Capacity for volumes

Thin volume monitoring

Thick volumes versus thin volumes

Configure storage

Create workloads

Add to workload

Manage volumes

Increase capacity

Initialize volumes

Redistribute volumes

Change controller ownership

Change allocated capacity for thin volumes

Manage settings

Change volume settings

Change workload settings

Change cache settings

Change media scan settings

Use copy services

Copy Volume function

Types of operations

Manage operations

FAQs

What is a volume?

Why am I seeing a capacity over-allocation error when I have enough free capacity in a volume group to create volumes?

How does my selected workload impact volume creation?

Why aren’t these volumes associated with a workload?

Why can’t I delete the selected workload?

How do application-specific workloads help me manage my storage system?

How does providing this information help create storage?

What do I need to do to recognize the expanded capacity?

Why don’t I see all my pools and/or volume groups?

What is segment size?

What is preferred controller ownership?

When would I want to use the assign host later selection?

What do I need to know about host block size requirements?

Hosts and host clusters

Concepts

Workflow for host creation and volume assignment

Automatic versus manual host creation

How volumes are assigned

Maximum number of LUNs

Default host operating system type

Configure host access

Create host automatically

Create host manually

Create host cluster

Assign volumes to hosts

Manage hosts and clusters

Change default host type

Unassign volumes

Delete host or host cluster

Set host connectivity reporting

Manage settings

Change settings for host

Change settings for host cluster

Change host port identifiers for host

FAQs

What are hosts and host clusters?

Why would I need to create a host cluster?

How do I know which host operating system type is correct?

What are HBAs and adapter ports?

How do I match the host ports to a host?

How do I create CHAP secrets?

What is the default cluster?

What is host connectivity reporting?

Snapshots

Concepts

How snapshot storage works

Workflow for creating snapshot images and volumes

Base volumes, reserved capacity, and snapshot groups

Snapshot schedules and snapshot consistency groups

Snapshot volumes

Snapshot rollback

Create snapshots and snapshot objects

Create snapshot image

Schedule snapshot images

Create snapshot consistency group

Create snapshot volumes

Manage snapshot schedules

Change settings

Activate and suspend

Delete snapshot schedule

Manage snapshot images

View snapshot image settings

Start snapshot image rollback for base volume

Start snapshot image rollback for snapshot consistency group member volumes

Resume snapshot image rollback

Cancel snapshot image rollback

Delete snapshot image

Manage snapshot consistency groups

Add member volume

Remove member volume

Change settings

Delete snapshot consistency group

Manage snapshot volumes

Convert snapshot volume to read-write mode

Change volume settings for snapshot volume

Copy snapshot volume

Re-create snapshot volume

Disable snapshot volume

Delete snapshot volume

FAQs

Why don’t I see all my volumes, hosts, or host clusters?

What is a snapshot image?

Why use snapshot images?

What kinds of volumes can be used for snapshots?

Why would I create a snapshot consistency group?

What is a snapshot volume and when does it need reserved capacity?

What is a snapshot group?

Why would I disable a snapshot volume?

What is the Disabled state?

Why would I suspend a snapshot schedule?

Mirroring

Overview

Async mirroring

Async concepts

How asynchronous mirroring works

Asynchronous mirror status

Volume ownership

Role change of a mirror consistency group

Sync concepts

How synchronous mirroring works

Synchronous mirroring status

Volume ownership

Role change between volumes in a mirrored pair

Manage async mirror consistency groups

Test communication

Suspend or resume synchronization

Change sync settings

Re-sync mirror consistency group

View unsync data amount

Update remote IP address

Change mirror consistency group role

Delete mirror consistency group

Manage async mirrored pairs

Remove async mirror relationship

Increase reserved capacity

Change reserved capacity for mirrored pair volume

Complete mirrored pair for primary volumes created on legacy system

Manage sync mirrored pairs

Test communication

Suspend and resume synchronization

Change role between volumes

Change sync settings

Remove mirror relationship

Deactivate mirroring

Deactivate async mirroring

Deactivate sync mirroring

Async FAQs

How does asynchronous mirroring differ from synchronous mirroring?

Why can’t I access my chosen mirroring feature?

What do I need to know before creating a mirror consistency group?

Asynchronous mirroring - What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?

What do I need to know before increasing my reserved capacity on a mirrored pair volume?

Why can’t I increase reserved capacity with my requested amount?

Why would I change this percentage?

Why do I see more than one reserved capacity candidate?

Why do I see Not Available values displayed in the table?

Why don’t I see all of my pools and volume groups?

Asynchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all my volumes?

Asynchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage system?

Why would I update my remote storage system’s IP address?

Sync FAQs

How does synchronous mirroring differ from asynchronous mirroring?

Synchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all my volumes?

Synchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage system?

Synchronous mirroring - What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?

What impact does synchronization priority have on synchronization rates?

Why is it recommended to use a manual synchronization policy?

Remote storage

Concepts

How Remote Storage works

Feature requirements

Volume requirements

Manage remote storage

Import remote storage

Manage progress of remote storage imports

Modify connection settings for remote storage

Remove remote storage object

FAQs

What do I need to know before creating a remote storage connection?

Why am I being prompted to remove my remote volumes?

Why don’t I see all my volumes on my destination array?

What do I need to know about the remote volume in an import?

What do I need to know before starting a remote storage import?

Hardware components

Concepts

Manage shelf components

View hardware components

Show or hide component status

Switch between front and back views

Change view order of shelves

Turn on shelf locator light

Change shelf IDs

View shelf component status and settings

Update battery learn cycles

Manage controllers

Controller states

Considerations for assigning IP addresses

Configure management port

Configure NTP server addresses

Configure DNS server addresses

View controller settings

Configure remote login (SSH)

Place controller online

Place controller offline

Place controller in service mode

Reset (reboot) controller

Manage iSCSI ports

Configure iSCSI ports

Configure iSCSI authentication

Enable iSCSI discovery settings

View iSCSI statistics packages

View iSCSI sessions

End iSCSI session

Configure iSER over InfiniBand ports

View iSER over InfiniBand statistics

Manage NVMe ports

Configure NVMe over InfiniBand ports

Configure NVMe over RoCE ports

View NVMe over Fabrics statistics

Manage drives

Solid State Disks (SSDs)

Limit drive view

Turn on drive locator light

View drive status and settings

Replace drive logically

Reconstruct drive manually

Initialize (format) drive

Unlock or reset locked NVMe or FIPS drives

Manage hot spares

Hot spare drive overview

Assign hot spares

Unassign hot spares

Shelf FAQs

What is shelf loss protection and drawer loss protection?

What are battery learn cycles?

Controller FAQs

What is auto-negotiation?

What is IPv6 stateless address auto-configuration?

Which do I choose — DHCP or manual configuration?

What is a DHCP server?

How do I configure my DHCP server?

Why do I need to change the controller network configuration?

Where do I get the network configuration?

What are ICMP PING responses?

When should I refresh the port configuration?

What should I do after configuring the management ports?

Why is the storage system in non-optimal mode?

iSCSI FAQs

What happens when I use an iSNS server for registration?

Which registration methods are automatically supported for iSCSI?

How do I interpret iSER over InfiniBand statistics?

What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose iSER over InfiniBand?

What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose iSCSI?

NVMe FAQs

How do I interpret NVMe over Fabrics statistics?

What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose NVMe over InfiniBand?

What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose NVMe over RoCE?

Why are there two IP addresses for one physical port?

Why are there two sets of parameters for one physical port?

Drive FAQs

What is a hot spare drive?

What is preservation capacity?

Why would I logically replace a drive?

Where can I view the status of a drive undergoing reconstruction?

Alerts

Concepts

How alerts work

Manage email alerts

Configure mail server and recipients

Edit email addresses

Add email addresses

Delete mail server or email addresses

Edit mail server

Manage SNMP alerts

Configure SNMP alerts

Add trap destinations

Configure SNMP MIB variables

Edit communities

Edit user settings

Add communities

Remove communities

Delete trap destinations

Manage syslog alerts

Configure syslog server

Edit syslog servers

Add syslog servers

Delete syslog servers

FAQs

What if alerts are disabled?

How do I configure SNMP or syslog alerts?

Why are timestamps inconsistent between the array and alerts?

Array settings

Settings overview

Concepts

Cache settings and performance

Automatic load balancing overview

Configure array settings

Edit storage system name

Turn on storage system locator lights

Synchronize storage system clocks

Save storage system configuration

Clear storage system configuration

Change cache settings

Set automatic load balancing

Enable or disable legacy management interface

Configure add-on features

How add-on features work

Obtain feature key file

Enable premium feature

Enable feature pack

FAQs

What is Automatic Load Balancing?

What is controller cache?

What is cache flushing?

What is cache block size?

When should I synchronize storage system clocks?

Drive security

Concepts

How Drive Security feature works

How security key management works

Configure security keys

Create internal security key

Create external security key

Manage security keys

Change security key

Switch from external to internal key management

Edit key management server settings

Back up security key

Validate security key

Unlock drives when using internal key management

Unlock drives when using external key management

FAQs

What do I need to know before creating a security key?

Why do I need to define a pass phrase?

Why is it important to record security key information?

What do I need to know before backing up a security key?

What do I need to know before unlocking secure drives?

What is read/write accessibility?

What do I need to know about validating the security key?

What is the difference between internal security key and external security key management?

Access management

Concepts

How Access Management works

Permissions for mapped roles

Local user roles

Directory services

Use local user roles

View local user roles

Change passwords

Change local user password settings

Use directory services

Add directory server

Edit directory server settings and role mappings

Remove directory server

Use SAML

Change SAML role mappings

Export SAML Service Provider files

Use access tokens

Create access tokens

Edit access token settings

Revoke access tokens

Manage syslog

View audit log activity

Define audit log policies

Delete events from the audit log

Configure syslog server for audit logs

Edit syslog server settings for audit log records

FAQs

Why can’t I log in?

What do I need to know before adding a directory server?

What do I need to know about mapping to storage system roles?

Which external management tools may be affected by this change?

What do I need to know before configuring and enabling SAML?

What types of events are recorded in the audit log?

What do I need to know before configuring a syslog server?

The syslog server is no longer receiving audit logs. What do I do?

Certificates

Concepts

How certificates work

Use certificates

Use CA-signed certificates for controllers

Reset management certificates

View imported certificate info

Import certificates for controllers when acting as clients

Enable certificate revocation checking

Delete trusted certificates

Use CA-signed certificates for authentication server

Export key management server certificates

FAQs

Why does the Cannot Access Other Controller dialog box appear?

How do I know what certificates need to be uploaded to System Manager for external key management?

What do I need to know about certificate revocation checking?

What types of servers will revocation checking be enabled for?

Support

View information and diagnostics

View storage system profile

View software and firmware inventory

Collect diagnostic data

Collect support data manually

Collect configuration data

Retrieve recovery support files

Retrieve trace buffers

Collect I/O path statistics

Retrieve health image

Take recovery actions

View unreadable sectors log

Re-enable drive ports

Clear recovery mode

Manage AutoSupport

AutoSupport feature overview

Workflow for the AutoSupport feature

Enable or disable AutoSupport features

Configure AutoSupport delivery method

Schedule AutoSupport dispatches

Send AutoSupport dispatches

View AutoSupport status

View AutoSupport log

Enable AutoSupport maintenance window

Disable AutoSupport maintenance window

View events

Event log overview

Manage upgrades

Upgrade software and firmware

Activate controller software and firmware

Upgrade drive firmware

Review the possible software and firmware upgrade errors

FAQs

What data am I collecting?

What does unreadable sectors data show me?

What is a health image?

What do the AutoSupport features do?

What type of data is collected through the AutoSupport feature?

How do I configure the delivery method for the AutoSupport feature?

What is configuration data?

What do I need to know before upgrading the SANtricity OS Software?

What do I need to know before suspending IOM auto-synchronization?

Why is my firmware upgrade progressing so slowly?

What do I need to know before upgrading drive firmware?

How do I choose which type of upgrade to perform?

Unified Manager

Main interface

Unified Manager interface overview

Supported browsers

Set admin password protection

Change the admin password

Manage session timeouts

Storage systems

Concepts

Considerations for discovering arrays

Considerations for accessing System Manager

Discover arrays

Discover multiple storage systems

Discover single array

Manage arrays

View array status

Launch System Manager

Change array passwords

Remove arrays from view

Settings import

Concepts

How Import Settings works

Requirements for replicating storage configurations

Use batch imports

Import alert settings

Import AutoSupport settings

Import directory services settings

Import system settings

Import storage configuration settings

FAQs

What settings will be imported?

Why don’t I see all of my storage systems?

Array groups

Configure groups

Remove arrays from group

Upgrades

Upgrade software and firmware

Perform pre-upgrade health check

Upgrade SANtricity OS

Activate staged OS software

Manage software repository

Clear staged OS software

Mirroring

Concepts

How mirroring works

Configuration workflow

Configure mirroring

Create asynchronous mirrored pair

Create synchronous mirrored pair

FAQs

What do I need to know before creating a mirror consistency group?

What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?

Why would I change this percentage?

Why do I see more than one reserved capacity candidate?

Why don’t I see all my volumes?

Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage system?

What impact does synchronization priority have on synchronization rates?

Why is it recommended to use a manual synchronization policy?

Certificates

Concepts

How certificates work

Use management host certificates

Reset management certificates

Use array certificates

Import certificates for arrays

Delete trusted certificates

Resolve untrusted certificates

Manage certificates

View certificates

Export certificates

Access management

Concepts

How Access Management works

Permissions for mapped roles

Local user roles

Directory services

Use local user roles

View local user roles

Change passwords

Change local user password settings

Use directory services

Add directory server

Edit directory server settings and role mappings

Remove directory server

Use SAML

Change SAML role mappings

Export SAML Service Provider files

FAQs

Why can’t I log in?

What do I need to know before adding a directory server?

What do I need to know about mapping to storage system roles?

What do I need to know before configuring and enabling SAML?

What are the local users?

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Alerts overview

You can configure SANtricity System Manager to send storage system alerts by email, SNMP traps, and syslog messages.

What are alerts?

Alerts notify administrators about important events that occur on the storage system. Events can include such issues as a battery failure, a component moving from Optimal to Offline, or redundancy errors in the controller. All Critical events are considered "alertable," along with some Warning and Informational events.

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How do I configure alerts?

You can configure alerts to be sent as a message to one or more email addresses, as an SNMP trap to an SNMP server, or as a message to a syslog server. Alert configuration is available from Settings > Alerts.

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