Hitachi Ops Center

Administrator
10.0.2

User Guide
Learn how to create, edit, and manage parity groups, pools, and volumes, protect data, monitor block
storage, and create and manage file storage resources with Ops Center Administrator. You can also
manage virtual storage machines and migrate volumes.

MK-99ADM001-01
December 2019
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Contents

Preface..................................................................................................... 8
Intended Audience...............................................................................................8
Product version....................................................................................................8
Release notes......................................................................................................9
Document conventions........................................................................................ 9
Conventions for storage capacity values........................................................... 10
Accessing product documentation..................................................................... 11
Getting help........................................................................................................11
Comments..........................................................................................................12

Chapter 1: Getting started....................................................................13

Overview of Ops Center Administrator.............................................................. 13
Unified management of block storage and file storage................................ 14
Dashboard....................................................................................................15
Analyzing data in the dashboard.............................................................18
Inventory and resource information..............................................................20
Onboarding a storage system workflow.............................................................21
Configuring a storage system workflow............................................................. 22
Creating and attaching volumes to servers workflow........................................ 22

Chapter 2: Adding a storage system...................................................23

Chapter 3: Configure block storage.................................................... 25
Managing port security and settings.................................................................. 25
Editing iSCSI port settings............................................................................26
Adding a fabric switch........................................................................................27
Supported fabric switch models................................................................... 28
Creating parity groups .......................................................................................30
Creating parity groups, basic method...........................................................31
Creating parity groups or hot spares, advanced method............................. 33
Managing free and spare disks.................................................................... 35
Parity groups inventory.................................................................................35
External parity groups inventory...................................................................38
Enabling accelerated compression in Ops Center Administrator................. 39
Creating a pool...................................................................................................39

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 Pools inventory.............................................................................................40
Creating a pool, basic method......................................................................41
How Ops Center Administrator calculates pool sizes for the basic
method of pool creation.......................................................................... 45
Creating a pool, advanced method.............................................................. 45
Pool details...................................................................................................48
Update pool tier settings......................................................................... 52
Create, attach, and protect volumes with local replication.................................53
Creating volumes to attach to servers.......................................................... 53
Attaching newly-created volumes to servers................................................ 55
Managing storage systems................................................................................58
Storage system inventory.............................................................................58
Storage system details................................................................................. 59
Using NAS Manager for advanced file storage configuration................. 67
Using Ops Center Administrator with Storage Advisor Embedded......... 68
Updating a storage system...........................................................................69
Managing servers.............................................................................................. 70
Adding servers..............................................................................................70
Exporting servers..........................................................................................72
Server and server groups inventory............................................................. 72
Server details................................................................................................73
Updating a server......................................................................................... 75
Edit LUN paths............................................................................................. 77
Reusing existing LUN paths......................................................................... 79
Managing server groups.................................................................................... 80
Adding a server group.................................................................................. 80
Updating a server group...............................................................................81
Server group details..................................................................................... 81
Managing volumes.............................................................................................82
About capacity saving.................................................................................. 82
Creating volumes..........................................................................................83
Attaching existing volumes to a server......................................................... 85
Attaching like volumes..................................................................................88
Update a volume.......................................................................................... 89
Volumes inventory........................................................................................ 90
Volume details.............................................................................................. 92
Update the tiering policy for a volume.......................................................... 93

Chapter 4: Configure file storage........................................................ 94

Managing file pools............................................................................................94
File pool inventory........................................................................................ 94
Creating file pools.........................................................................................95

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 File pool details.............................................................................................97
Expanding a file pool.................................................................................... 97
Managing virtual file servers.............................................................................. 98
Virtual file server inventory........................................................................... 98
Creating a virtual file server..........................................................................98
Virtual file server details............................................................................... 99
Managing file systems....................................................................................... 99
File system inventory....................................................................................99
Creating file systems.................................................................................. 100
File system details......................................................................................100
Updating a file system................................................................................ 101
Managing shares and exports......................................................................... 101
Shares and exports inventory.....................................................................101
Creating shares and exports...................................................................... 102
Export details..............................................................................................102
Updating an export..................................................................................... 102
Share details...............................................................................................103
Adding existing account domain groups to a share.............................. 103
Updating a share........................................................................................ 104

Chapter 5: Data protection................................................................. 106

Data protection concepts................................................................................. 106
Selecting volumes to protect............................................................................107
Protect volumes with local replication..............................................................107
Protecting volumes by cloning....................................................................107
Protecting volumes by creating snapshots.................................................108
Protect existing volumes with high availability................................................. 109
Viewing replication groups............................................................................... 113
Replication groups inventory...................................................................... 114
Editing replication groups...................................................................... 116

Chapter 6: Setting up high availability.............................................. 117

Configure remote paths....................................................................................117
Configuring remote paths for VSP Gx00 models, VSP G1x00 models,
VSP Fx00 models, VSP F1500, and VSP 5000 series...............................117
Configure remote paths for VSP G/F350, G/F370, G/F700, G/F900
models........................................................................................................ 118
Configure the quorum disk............................................................................... 119
Configuring the quorum disk for VSP Gx00 models, VSP G1x00 models,
VSP Fx00 models, VSP F1500, and VSP 5000 series.............................. 120
Discover and add external volumes......................................................120
Adding the quorum disk ....................................................................... 120

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 Configuring the quorum disk for VSP G/F350, G/F370, G/F700, G/F900
models........................................................................................................121
Configuring a quorum disk by creating an external volume.................. 121
Configuring a quorum disk by selecting an external volume.................123
Configuring a quorum disk without using an external volume...............123
Managing virtual storage machines for high availability.................................. 124
Creating virtual storage machines..............................................................124

Chapter 7: Manage virtual storage machines...................................127

Virtual storage machine inventory....................................................................127
Creating virtual storage machines................................................................... 128
Remove undefined resources from a virtual storage machine........................ 129
Move volumes to a virtual storage machine.................................................... 130
Add undefined resources to a virtual storage machine....................................131
Virtual storage machine details........................................................................132
Physical storage system details.......................................................................133

Chapter 8: Provisioning for high availability....................................135

Prerequisites to provisioning for high availability............................................. 135
Register Data Instance Director in Ops Center Administrator.................... 136
Create, attach, and protect volumes with high availability............................... 137
Attach volumes and select secondary servers................................................ 139
Select volume protection options.....................................................................140
Configuring connections to the primary and secondary sites.......................... 141

Chapter 9: Disabling high availability operations............................145

Disable by deleting the replication group and primary volumes...................... 146
Disable by deleting the replication group and retaining the primary volume... 147
Disable by deleting some HA pairs but retaining the replication group........... 147
Disable by deleting some HA pairs but retaining the replication group and
primary volumes...............................................................................................148

Chapter 10: Migrate volumes............................................................. 150

Volume migration workflow.............................................................................. 150
External migration of volumes over 4TiB......................................................... 151
Attaching volumes to storage when the source is managed in Ops Center
Administrator (for external migration)...............................................................152
Discovering external storage........................................................................... 153
Discovering and virtualizing volumes...............................................................154
Migrating volumes............................................................................................157
Managing external volumes.............................................................................159
Managing migration tasks................................................................................160
Editing a volume migration task................................................................. 161

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 Interrupting an in-progress volume migration ............................................ 162
Workflow for clean-up after migration.............................................................. 163
Deleting a volume migration task.....................................................................163
Unvirtualizing external volumes....................................................................... 163
Detaching volumes from storage..................................................................... 164
Shredding volumes.......................................................................................... 164

Chapter 11: Monitor block storage.................................................... 166

Monitoring capacity..........................................................................................166
Monitoring hardware........................................................................................ 167
Monitoring data protection............................................................................... 168
Monitoring jobs.................................................................................................169
Setting up to receive SNMP alerts...................................................................171

Chapter 12: Administer Ops Center Administrator..........................174

Administering security......................................................................................174
Privileges and roles.................................................................................... 174
Registering an LDAP domain using a DNS server..................................... 175
Adding an account domain.........................................................................176
Assigning user roles................................................................................... 177
Registering an LDAP domain using the virtual appliance manager........... 178
Updating a LDAP domain registered using the virtual appliance
manager................................................................................................179
Backup and restore system settings................................................................179
System elements preserved during backup............................................... 180
Download audit logs........................................................................................ 181
Download maintenance information................................................................ 181

Index................................................................................................. 182

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Preface
Hitachi Ops Center Administrator is an infrastructure management solution that unifies
storage management solutions such as storage provisioning, data protection, and
storage management; simplifies the management of large scale data centers by
providing smarter software services; and is extensible to provide better programmability
and better control.

Intended Audience
This document is intended for system administrators, Hitachi Vantara representatives,
and authorized service providers who configure and operate the following storage
systems with Hitachi Ops Center Administrator:
■ Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F350, F370, F700, F900
■ Virtual Storage Platform F400, F600, F800
■ Virtual Storage Platform F1500
■ Virtual Storage Platform G350, G370, G700, G900
■ Virtual Storage Platform G200, G400, G600, G800
■ Virtual Storage Platform G1000
■ Virtual Storage Platform G1500
■ Virtual Storage Platform N400, N600, N800
■ Virtual Storage Platform 5100, 5500, 5100H, 5500H
Readers of this document should be familiar with the following:
■ RAID storage systems and their basic functions.
■ Volume creation and management.
■ Pool creation and management.
■ Parity group creation and management.

Product version
This document revision applies to Hitachi Ops Center Administrator version 10.0.2 or
later.

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 Conventions for storage capacity values

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Conventions for storage capacity values

Physical storage capacity values (for example, disk drive capacity) are calculated based
on the following values:

Physical capacity unit Value

1 kilobyte (KB) 1,000 (103) bytes

1 megabyte (MB) 1,000 KB or 1,0002 bytes

1 gigabyte (GB) 1,000 MB or 1,0003 bytes

1 terabyte (TB) 1,000 GB or 1,0004 bytes

1 petabyte (PB) 1,000 TB or 1,0005 bytes

1 exabyte (EB) 1,000 PB or 1,0006 bytes

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 Accessing product documentation

Logical capacity values (for example, logical device capacity, cache memory capacity) are
calculated based on the following values:

Logical capacity unit Value

1 block 512 bytes

1 cylinder Mainframe: 870 KiB

Open-systems
■ OPEN-V: 960 KiB
■ Others: 720 KiB

1 KiB 1,024 (210) bytes

1 MiB 1,024 KiB or 1,0242 bytes

1 GiB 1,024 MiB or 1,0243 bytes

1 TiB 1,024 GiB or 1,0244 bytes

1 PiB 1,024 TiB or 1,0245 bytes

1 EiB 1,024 PiB or 1,0246 bytes

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Chapter 1: Getting started
Hitachi Ops Center Administrator is a unified software management tool that reduces
the complexity of managing storage systems by simplifying the setup, management, and
maintenance of storage resources.
You can review the following to gain an understanding of Ops Center Administrator
concepts:

Overview of Ops Center Administrator

Hitachi Ops Center Administrator is a unified software management tool that reduces
the complexity of managing storage systems by simplifying the setup, management, and
maintenance of storage resources.
Ops Center Administrator reduces infrastructure management complexities and enables
a new simplified approach to managing storage infrastructures. It provides intuitive
graphical user interfaces and recommended configuration practices to streamline
system configurations and storage management operations. You can leverage Ops
Center Administrator to easily provision new storage capacity for business applications
without requiring in-depth knowledge of the underlying infrastructure resource details. It
provides centralized management while reducing the number of steps to configure,
optimize, and deploy new infrastructure resources.

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 Unified management of block storage and file storage

Some of the key Ops Center Administrator capabilities include:

■ Simplified user experience for managing infrastructure resources. Visual aids enable
easy viewing and interpretation of key management information, such as used and
available capacity, and guide features to help quickly determine appropriate next
steps for a given management task.
■ Recommended system configurations to speed initial storage system setup and
accelerate new infrastructure resource deployments.
■ Integrated configuration workflows with Hitachi recommended practices to
streamline storage provisioning and data protection tasks.
■ Common, centralized management for supported storage systems.
■ A REST-based API to provide full management programmability and control in
addition to unified file-based management support.
■ Ops Center Administrator enables automated SAN zoning during volume attach and
detach. Optional auto-zoning eliminates the need for repetitive zoning tasks to be
performed on the switch.

Unified management of block storage and file storage

Ops Center Administrator can be used to onboard and configure both block storage and
file storage if NAS modules are included in the chassis of a supported storage system.

Understand block and file storage

■ Block storage:
In block storage, volumes of storage are created. A server-based operating system
can connect to each block of storage and control it as an individual hard drive. Each
storage block can be individually formatted with the required file system, such as
NTFS or VMFS. Block storage systems are typically deployed in a Storage Area
Network (SAN) environment.
From the dashboard of Ops Center Administrator, you can discover, register, and
onboard a block storage system.
■ File storage:
Ops Center Administrator supports unified onboarding and configuration of file
storage in the form of NAS modules.
If a supported storage system includes NAS modules, the file storage is automatically
added with the block storage. Then file pools and other file resources can be created
in the Ops Center Administrator interface or by using the API.

Adding block and file storage together

Ops Center Administrator enables you to add block and file storage in a single step. The
only requirements are the service processor (SVP) IP address, user name, and password.
When the file storage is added, the cluster is automatically registered in Ops Center
Administrator.

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 Dashboard

Unified configuration
Once a storage system is onboarded, all block and file resources can be configured and
managed from a single Storage System page. File pool creation workflow incorporates
best practices that simplify workflow and enhance usability. The file pools are used to
easily create virtual file servers, file systems, and shares and exports. File system
creation automatically mounts and formats the new file system.

Unified reporting
Capacity is reported for all aggregated storage systems in the dashboard.
Capacity is also displayed for each storage system in the Storage System detail page.
Three views of capacity are available: file only, block only, or a unified view of block and
file.

Dashboard

Once a storage system has been onboarded to Ops Center Administrator, the dashboard
displays as soon as you log in. The Ops Center Administrator dashboard provides the
tools to easily configure, manage, and monitor storage systems.

From the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, you can access managed resources and
provision storage in the context of a given storage system or server. The provided
templates and configurations make it possible to quickly and easily provision a storage
system, without knowing the details of the underlying hardware and software.
The top navigation menu provides access to Jobs and Monitoring pages. Links to the
following settings are available, based on the user role:
■ Tier Management
■ Security Settings
■ SNMP Settings
■ Change Local Password
■ Data Instance Director Settings

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 Dashboard

The dashboard has three distinct sections:

■ Resource side panel: The left pane provides quick access to review the configuration
of your storage systems, servers, and fabric switches. If the storage system includes
NAS modules, virtual file servers can also be accessed. .
■ Alert tiles: Four alert tiles represent various aspects of the health of the storage
system. When Ops Center Administrator detects a problem with a storage system
environment, a number appears in the tile. The number indicates the number of
alerts for that aspect of the storage system. Click the alert tile to go directly to a
summary of the problems.
■ Resource summary: The middle area, with the information gauge, provides a
summary of the capacity allocated from the registered storage systems.

Resource side panel

The resource side panel enables quick access to storage systems and to servers.
■ Click Storage Systems to view and add storage systems.
■ Click Servers to view and add servers.
■ Click Fabric Switches to view and add fabric switches.
■ Click Virtual File Servers to view and add virtual file servers. Displays if the storage
system includes NAS modules.
■ Click Virtual Storage Machines to view virtual storage machines and move volumes
to a VSM or add and remove undefined resources.

Alert tiles
Across the top of the dashboard are tiles that display alerts for storage capacity, data
protection, jobs, and hardware.
If a tile includes a circled check mark, there are no alerts for that part of the storage
system, and everything is functioning normally. A number in a red circle within a tile
indicates one or more problems with that part of the storage system.
You can click a tile for Capacity Alerts, Data Protection Alerts, or Hardware Alerts to view
the summary for the category in the Monitoring tab.
The Jobs Alert tile displays the number of jobs in the last 24 hours with a status of Failed
or Success with Errors.

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 Dashboard

Resource summary
The circular information gauge displays capacity metrics for the available storage.
■ If the storage systems include file storage, you can click Block or File next to the
information gauge to view a legend and capacity values for either type of storage.
Click Unified to view a legend and capacity values for both block and file.
■ For block-only storage systems, the numerical data for each capacity parameter in the
ring is displayed to the left of the information gauge.
■ The number in the center of the rings shows the total usable capacity of all storage
systems. The total usable capacity is the capacity available from all the parity groups
across all storage systems.
If you do not have any parity groups configured on the storage system, this number is
zero and all other data points in the capacity visualization are zero.

Note: To understand uninitialized raw capacities, review the available

unused disks on the detail page for each storage system.
■ The light grey ring indicates the sum of all pool capacity available across all storage
systems. The dark grey indicates the parity group capacity that is not yet allocated to
pools.
If you do not have any pools created, the light grey ring indicates zero. As you create
pools, this number increases to eventually become equal to the total usable capacity
when you have consumed all parity groups for pool creation.

Note: Allocated to Pools plus Unallocated to Pools equals the Total Usable
Capacity in the center of information gauge.
■ The light green ring (Thin Used) indicates the storage utilization. As you create
volumes on the pools and start consuming capacity, the utilization of thin pools
increases and you will notice the value in green starting to increase.
If Thin Used starts to increase and get closer to your total pool capacity, that indicates
that the pools may be starting to fill up.
■ Physical capacity allocated to file pools is indicated by medium blue in the File view
and by light blue in the Unified view.
■ File pool utilization is indicated by light blue in the File view and by medium blue in
the Unified view.
■ File over-commit capacity is represented by darkest gray in the outer ring of the File
view.
■ The subscribed capacity of all volumes, as a percentage, is represented by white in the
outermost ring in the Block and Unified views. If the white ring extends outside the
circle, it indicates oversubscription. Capacity subscription beyond the total available
capacity should not be an issue if your capacity utilization is well within the total
capacity.
■ Physical capacity, or total usable capacity across all parity groups, is represented by
dark blue in the outermost ring in the Block view and Unified views.

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 Analyzing data in the dashboard

If you notice the total pool capacity (light grey) and Thin used (light green) values getting
closer to total capacity, you may be running out of storage on one or more storage
systems and may need to add disks to increase storage capacity. Review the information
gauge for each storage system to identify which storage system needs additional
capacity. In addition, check disks for each storage system to determine if there is unused
capacity available for parity group creation.
The right side of the resource summary offers alternate views:
■ Protection: is the breakdown of data protection metrics including a representation of
types of protected, unprotected, and secondary capacity and gauge of the total
percentage of capacity protected.
■ Tier Breakdown: is a visualization of the amount of each tier that is allocated to
pools.
■ Savings:
● Data Reduction: The ratio of logical used capacity to the physical used capacity,
for all compression and deduplication technologies.

Note: The value displayed as the capacity of data after reduction

includes the size of meta-data and garbage data generated by the
storage system in addition to user data. The value might temporarily be
greater than the capacity of data before reduction.
● Capacity Efficiency: : The ratio of Thin Free plus Thin Used to the physical used
capacity. Capacity efficiency is only calculated for volumes on DP and HDT pools.
■ If disk-based compression is in use, either alone or in combination with
controller-based compression, the physical used capacity is that resulting from
disk-based compression alone.
■ If only controller-based compression is in use, the physical used capacity is that
resulting from controller-based compression.
■ If no compression is in use then physical used capacity is the used capacity of
the pool(s).

Analyzing data in the dashboard

The dashboard is a visual display of the important information needed to analyze the
overall capacity utilization and health of your storage system. It provides visual indicators
such as total usable capacity, current utilization, data protection summary, and
monitoring alerts.

Analyzing data shown in alert tiles

The alert tiles collectively present the health of the storage system environment. In one
glance you can verify that the overall health is sound if you see no alerts on the alert
tiles. This means that there are no capacity or hardware issues in the environment, no
failed jobs in the last 24 hours and that the data protection is working without any
issues.
If there are any alerts, you can drill down to the relevant alert page to investigate the
cause. Ops Center Administrator provides alerts for capacity utilization, hardware, data
protection, and jobs status.

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 Analyzing data in the dashboard

Analyzing data in the information gauge

The information gauge provides a visual indication of the total capacity of all storage
systems managed by Ops Center Administrator.

The capacity indicated in the center of the ring is the total usable capacity available via
the configured parity groups. After you add a storage system and configure parity
groups, the total capacity indicator will show the capacity from the newly added storage
system. The Thin Used capacity (light green ring) indicates the total capacity that is
currently being used. If the usage is around 70-80% of the total capacity, you may receive
capacity alerts based on the thresholds set by your storage administrator. The default
thresholds are 70% and 80%, and can be changed during pool creation.
The light grey ring that provides a sum of capacities of all pools in the systems should be
closer to 100% capacity. This would mean that you are using your entire parity group
capacity by allocating it to pools. If the Thin Used capacity ring (light green) nears the
total capacity (light grey ring) then you may run out of pool capacity soon. In such a case,
expand the pool to consume more capacity.
If you notice that the total pool capacity (light grey ring) and Thin used (light green ring)
values are getting closer to total capacity, you may be running out of disk capacity on
one or more storage systems and would need to add disk space to increase storage
capacity. Before adding disk space:
■ Review the information gauge for each storage system to identify which storage
system needs additional capacity.
■ Review unused disks for each storage system to determine if any raw unused capacity
is available for parity group creation.
Capacity subscription beyond the total available capacity should not be an issue if your
thin capacity utilization is well within the total capacity.

Analyzing tier metrics

As parity groups are created, the various disk types become categorized into tiers. The
tiers and corresponding disk types are shown below.

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 Inventory and resource information

Table 1 Tier definitions

Tier Disk type

Platinum FMD, FMD DC2, SSD, SSD(RI) and FMD

HDE, SSD NVMe

Gold SAS 15 k

Silver SAS 10 k

Bronze SAS 7.2 k

Note: Adding all tier capacities together equals the Total Usable Capacity in
the center of the information gauge.

Analyzing data protection metrics

The balance of your protected primary volumes and secondary volumes depends on the
number of copies you have chosen to maintain, and also on the type of the data
protection technology being used. If you choose to set aside more volumes for data
protection, then the overall usable capacity may be affected. On the other hand, if you
have a large amount of unprotected data, you may want to consider data protection
options.

Note: These data protection capacity numbers are based on oversubscribed

allocations and as a result will correlate with the overall oversubscription
percentage, not the usable capacity numbers represented in the rest of the
information gauge.

Inventory and resource information

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 Onboarding a storage system workflow

The inventory pages display details about the storage system resources in Ops Center
Administrator. These resources include storage systems, servers, ports, and pools,
volumes, parity groups, external parity groups (if the storage system has external
storage), and replication groups. If the storage system has NAS modules, resources will
also include file pools, virtual file servers, file systems, and shares and exports. Common
actions can be performed on the inventory pages, such as the following:
■ You can select one or more resources and delete them.
When you delete a storage system, you disassociate it from Ops Center
Administrator. When you delete a pool or volume, the resource is de-provisioned and
removed from the storage system.
■ When a parity group is deleted, it is removed from the storage system and the disks
used to create the parity group are no longer in use. You can delete the parity group if
you want to reconfigure the storage system with some other RAID configuration or
simply decommission the array. If the parity group is in use by a pool, the parity group
deletion will fail.
■ You can select one or more of the same type of resources and update their
properties. The properties that can be updated depend on the type of resource.
■ You can click a particular resource to see more details about it on its resource detail
page.
● When you delete a block pool, the parity groups used by the pool will no longer be
in In Use status. The pool volumes on these parity groups will be formatted and
the parity group will eventually be in Available status.
● When you delete a volume, the pool subscription will go down. Volume deletion
will fail if the volume participates in data protection or is attached to a server.
● When you delete a file pool, the underlying related block pool is deleted.
● When you delete a server, the server is disassociated from Ops Center
Administrator. You will no longer be able to provision volumes to the server (or its
WWNs). Server deletion will fail if it has volumes attached to it.

Onboarding a storage system workflow

When you onboard a storage system, you associate it with Ops Center Administrator so
that you can manage it from the dashboard. Then you can add servers to which you can
attach volumes. Optionally, you can add fabric switches if you want to auto-create zones
during volume provisioning.

Note: If you use resource groups, make sure that the SVP username used to
onboard storage systems in Ops Center Administrator has access to all
custom resource groups and meta resource groups.

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 Configuring a storage system workflow

Configuring a storage system workflow

Configure a storage system in order to manage storage using Ops Center Administrator.

Note: Ops Center Administrator retrieves and displays any resources that
already exist in the storage system.

Complete the following in order to configure a storage system:

■ Enable port security. Post security must be enabled for a host storage domain (HSD)
to be created on the port. If port security is disabled Ops Center Administrator will not
select the port for HSD creation. If the user manually selects the port with security
disabled, the host group will be created.
■ Create parity groups so you can create pools.
■ Create pools so you can create volumes.

Creating and attaching volumes to servers workflow

Ops Center Administrator provides a workflow in a single page to create volumes and
immediately attach them to servers. Optionally, you can protect volumes as part of the
same workflow.
You begin by choosing a server where you want to create and attach volumes. As part of
the workflow, Ops Center Administrator automatically attaches volumes to servers after
you select settings. Finally, you are provided the option of immediately applying data
protection.

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Chapter 2: Adding a storage system
Onboarding a storage system is the process of associating it with Ops Center
Administrator. After the storage system is onboarded, manage it from the Ops Center
Administrator dashboard.
You can add multiple storage systems at once by specifying an SVP IP address that has
multiple storage systems. Storage systems with different credentials cannot be added in
the same operation.
To add a storage system without an SVP, you can specify either of the GUM IP addresses.
If a supported storage system includes NAS modules, the file storage will be added
automatically along with the block storage.
Ops Center Administrator also supports onboarding of 4-node clusters, which is a
requirement for GAD Enhanced for NAS. GAD Enhanced for NAS takes advantage of
global-active device to cluster two VSP Gx00 models systems with NAS modules across
two sites.

Before you begin

Ops Center Administrator requires access to all resources groups on the storage system
so that the workflows function correctly. Verify that the service processor (SVP) user
name used to onboard a storage system in Ops Center Administrator has access to all
custom resource groups and meta resource groups.
The user must be a member of the Administration Users Group.
If the storage system includes NAS modules, the user must also be a member of the
Support Personnel Group.

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Storage Systems on the left
pane.
2. Click the plus sign (+) to add a storage system.
3. Enter values for the following parameters on the Onboard Storage System page.
■ IP Address: : For a storage system with an SVP, enter the IP address (IPv4) of the
external service processor for the storage system you want to discover.
■ User name and password: : Log in as a user that has administrator privileges on
this storage system. For example, you can log in as the user maintenance.

Note: If the storage system has a virtual SVP, you can specify the RMI
access port number following the IP address, in the IP address field.
The syntax is IP-address:Port-number.

4. Click Submit.

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 Note: For storage systems with both block and file storage, do not
change the default Supervisor credentials.

Result
When you successfully add a 4-node cluster, a message displays requesting that you
ensure both storage systems in the global-active device pair are added before
performing operations.
The Jobs tab is updated with the job called Create Storage System. If multiple
storage systems are being added, there will be a job for each one.
Wait a while for the storage system to be added. Refresh the Jobs tab to verify that
storage system is onboarded.
The dashboard shows the displayed number of storage systems has been incremented
by one. Additionally, when you click Storage Systems, you are redirected to the storage
system inventory where you can see the newly added storage system.
When a storage system is onboarded, Ops Center Administrator goes through an
initialization process where it gathers the information about the current configuration of
the storage system. During this time you will see that the ports, volumes, pools, and
parity groups in the storage system are "Not accessible". Once the initialization is
complete, you can see the port, pool, volume, and parity group information in the
storage system details.

Note: If operations are performed outside of Ops Center Administrator, it

takes time to update in Ops Center Administrator (approximately 20 minutes,
depending on cache refresh). You can initiate a manual refresh on the Storage
Systems page or on the Storage System detail page. You can observer the
refresh task on the Jobs page.

Next steps
1. In the parity group inventory for the storage system, create parity groups to convert
the raw disk capacity into usable capacity.
2. From the settings menu, access the tier definitions before creating pools.

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Chapter 3: Configure block storage
Use Ops Center Administrator to configure the block storage.

Managing port security and settings

Before a host storage domain (HSD) can be created on a port, port security must be
enabled. By default, security is disabled on supported storage systems. If port security is
disabled Ops Center Administrator will not select the port for host storage domain (HSD)
creation. If you select a port that has security disabled, you are limited to the default host
group. If the user manually selects the port with security disabled, the host group will be
created.

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Storage Systems to see the
inventory of storage systems and capacity information.
2. Click a storage system to see its configuration of pools, ports, volumes, and parity
groups.
3. Click Ports to see the configured storage ports for the storage system.

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 Editing iSCSI port settings

4. To modify ports do one of the following:

■ Select one or more Fibre Channel ports and click Edit Fibre Port to open the Edit
Fibre Port page, where you can change the security setting.
■ Select an iSCSI port and click Edit iSCSI Port to open the Edit iSCSI Port page,
where you can change security settings and IPv4 or IPv6 settings.

5. For , VSP G1000, VSP G1500, or VSP F1500 storage systems, you can update port
attributes by selecting one of the following:
■ Target: Fibre target port
■ Initiator: MCU initiator port
■ RCU Target: RCU target port
■ External: External initiator port

6. The VSP 5000 series can have either the Target attribute or the Bidirectional
attribute. You can select one or the other in the Edit Fibre Port page.
7. Click Enable Security or Disable Security and then click OK.
A job is started to update the port security.
Modifying port attributes in Storage Navigator
You can open the Ports inventory page in Storage Navigator by clicking Open the Ports/
Hosts Groups/iSCSI Targets page in Storage Navigator to view and modify port attributes.
For more information, refer to the Storage Navigator online help.

Note: Any changes you make in Storage Navigator may not be reflected in
Ops Center Administrator for a few minutes.

Editing iSCSI port settings

Change the settings for port security and for IPv4 and IPv6.

Procedure
1. Navigate to the Ports page and select the iSCSI tab.
2. Select the port and click Edit iSCSI settings.

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 Adding a fabric switch

3. Update the port security or the settings for IPv4 and IPv6 and click Submit.

Adding a fabric switch

You can add a fabric switch after onboarding a storage system. Add, update, and delete
fabric switches in the Ops Center Administrator interface.
After a fabric switch is added, you can choose to auto-create zones during volume
provisioning. A fabric switch is required for any operations that use auto-select, such as
host group creation and auto-selection of ports while attaching volumes to servers.

Before you begin

■ Verify that servers and ports are connected according to the manufacturer's
instructions.
■ Verify that there is an active zone set with at least one dummy zone available.
■ The Ops Center Administrator server is connected to the same IP network and has
access to SNMP broadcast of Fibre Channel switches.
■ Verify the required information about the fabric switch: Virtual Fabric ID (required
only for Cisco switches), Fabric Switch Type, Fabric Switch IP Address, Port Number,
Username, and Password.
■ Verify that you have the Admin role for the fabric switch.

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, select Fabric Switches to open the
Fabric Switches page.
2. Click the plus sign (+) to open the Add Fabric Switches page.

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 Supported fabric switch models

3. Enter the following information from the configuration of the switch you are adding:
■ Virtual Fabric ID: For Cisco switches, the VSAN ID. Not applicable to Brocade
switches.
■ Fabric Switch Type: Select Brocade or Cisco.
■ Fabric Switch IP Address
To add or update a core switch, use the Management IP address of the switch or
the Active CP IP address.
■ Port Number
■ Username
■ Password

4. Click Submit.

Result
A job is created to add the fabric switch.

Supported fabric switch models

® ®
Ops Center Administrator supports a variety of Brocade and Cisco fabric switches.

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 Supported fabric switch models

System requirements for Brocade switches

Model Fiber OS version Type

300 7.0 71
7.1
7.2
7.3

5300 7.0 64
7.1
7.2
7.3

6505 7.0 118

7.1
7.2
7.3

6510 7.0 109

7.1
7.2
7.3

6520 7.0 133

7.1
7.2
7.3

7800 7.0 83
7.1
7.2
7.3

DCX 8510-4 7.0 121

7.1
7.2
7.3

DCX 8510-8 with firmware v6.4 7.0 120

7.1
7.2
7.3

System requirements for Cisco switches

Ops Center Administrator supports the Cisco MDS 9000 Series of switches.
Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 6.2(9) or later is required.

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 Creating parity groups

Creating parity groups

Parity groups are the basic units of storage capacity. Creating parity groups converts the
raw disk capacity in your storage system into usable capacity.

Ops Center Administrator parity group concepts

Ops Center Administrator provides a simple one-click method of parity group creation
that is based on best practices applicable to the disks in the storage system.
An advanced method of parity group creation is also available. You can choose to use the
advanced method if there is not a need to rely on best practices.

Note: Parity groups on VSP 5000 series, VSP G1000, VSP G1500, or VSP F1500
storage systems cannot be created in Ops Center Administrator. They are
created by an authorized service representative. They can be initialized in Ops
Center Administrator. Encryption can be enabled in Storage Navigator.

Creating parity groups in Ops Center Administrator also creates LDEVs that can be
consumed for pool creation.
Encryption can be enabled during parity group creation if prerequisites are met,
including a storage system with an Encryption Disk Board.
Normal practice is to use all available disk capacity when creating parity groups to ensure
that all of the storage system capacity is usable. There can be exceptions to this practice;
for example:
■ If the entire capacity of the storage system is not needed.
■ If there is a need to create fewer parity groups in order to reserve more disks as
spares.

Viewing parity groups

Access the Parity Groups page by clicking Storage Systems on the dashboard and then
clicking a storage system tile. Click the Parity Groups tile.

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A summary of parity groups includes disk type, number of parity groups, capacity, and
available spares, all sorted by disk type.
■ You can click Manage Spare Disks to open the Disk Management page and set free
disks as spare disks, or spares as free disks.

Note: Not available for VSP 5000 series, VSP G1000, VSP G1500, or VSP
F1500.
■ Click any parity group tile to view its details.
■ Click the plus sign (+) to open the Create Parity Groups page.
When you open the Create Parity Groups page, the basic method is selected by
default. Encryption can be enabled using either method.
● Basic option: Creating a parity group using the basic option requires no input, but
you can change the RAID type or the number of parity groups. Ops Center
Administrator applies recommended best practices for creating these parity
groups.
● Advanced option: The advanced option allows the user to fully configure the RAID
layout of the parity group by selecting the specific disks to assign for parity group
creation.

Enabling parity group encryption in Storage Navigator

Click Open the Parity Groups page in Storage Navigator to enable parity group
encryption.
For more information, refer to the Storage Navigator online help.

Note: Any changes you make in Storage Navigator may not be reflected in
Ops Center Administrator for a few minutes.

Creating parity groups, basic method

The following procedure describes the basic option for creating a parity group and
enabling encryption.

Note: Parity groups on a VSP 5000 series, VSP G1000, VSP G1500, or VSP
F1500 storage systems are created outside Ops Center Administrator by an
authorized service representative.

Before you begin

■ Register the storage system.
■ Identify the target storage system name.
■ Identify the total capacity that you expect to use. Plan to use all of the available disks
in the system when you create parity groups.

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, select Storage Systems in the
resource side panel to see the inventory of registered storage systems.

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 Creating parity groups, basic method

2. Click a storage system to create and configure the parity groups for it.
3. Click Parity Groups to see the inventory of all parity groups in the storage system.
4. Click the plus sign (+). In the Create Parity Groups window, review the list of
unused disk types in the storage system. This information is grouped by disk type,
disk speed, and disk capacity, and includes the following details:
■ Number of available disks.
■ Available spares detected for each disk type, disk speed, and capacity.
■ Number of new or additional spares to reserve. This calculation is based on the
total spares needed based on recommended best practices, and the number of
existing spares in the system.
■ The recommended RAID configuration for the disk type.
■ The number of parity groups that can be created.
■ The total usable capacity that is available based on the number of parity groups
and the RAID configuration.

5. Decide if the recommended RAID configuration for each disk type is acceptable.
Choose one of the following options:
■ Accept the recommended RAID configuration, which uses the full capacity of the
installed drives.
■ Change the recommended RAID configuration or create fewer parity groups. Ops
Center Administrator shows the number of parity groups that can be created for
the new RAID configuration and the corresponding usable capacity.

6. (Optional) Click Encryption ON if you want to use encryption.

Prerequisites for enabling encryption:
■ The storage system must have an Encryption Disk Board.
■ Encryption License Key must be installed.
■ The Key Management Server must be configured on the SVP.

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 Creating parity groups or hot spares, advanced method

Note: Encryption cannot be disabled in Ops Center Administrator.

7. Click Submit.

Result
A job is started to create the parity group for the storage system. This job includes the
following tasks:
■ Identifies the appropriate number and position for the spare disk.
■ Assigns a spare disk.
■ Creates the required number of parity groups for the requested RAID layout.
■ Creates and quick formats the necessary volumes on the parity group so that it is
ready for pool creation.
■ The job may create sub-jobs when multiple parity groups are being created. Each sub-
job will show the status of the parity groups being created.

Next steps
■ Check the status of the parity group creation job by clicking Jobs.

Note: Parity group creation may take a long time.

Creating parity groups or hot spares, advanced method

The advanced option enables users to configure parity groups that are not based on the
provided best practices.
The advanced option allows you to fully configure the RAID layout of the parity group by
selecting the specific disks and hot spares to assign for parity group creation.

Note: Parity groups on a VSP 5000 series, VSP G1000, VSP G1500, or VSP
F1500 storage systems are created outside Ops Center Administrator by an
authorized service representative.

Procedure
1. On the dashboard, click Storage Systems and click a storage system tile.
2. Click Parity Groups to open the Parity Groups page and click the plus sign to open
the Create Parity Groups page.
3. Click Advanced.

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 Creating parity groups or hot spares, advanced method

4. Select a RAID Type and a RAID Layout.

RAID Type RAID Layout

RAID5 3D+1P, 4D+1P, 6D+1P, 7D+1P

RAID6 6D+2P, 12D+2P, 14D+2P

RAID1+0 2D+2D

5. (Optional) Click Encryption ON if you want to use encryption.

Prerequisites for enabling encryption:
■ The storage system must have an Encryption Disk Board.
■ Encryption License Key must be installed.
■ The Key Management Server must be configured on the SVP.

Note: Encryption cannot be disabled in Ops Center Administrator.

6. Choose available disks. Select enough disks to match the RAID Layout.

Note: FMD HDE drives with encryption disabled can be added to parity
groups but the capacity cannot be used in pools.

7. Click Submit.

Result
A job is started to create the parity group for the storage system.

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 Managing free and spare disks

Next steps
■ Check the status of the job by clicking Jobs.

Note: Parity group creation may take time.

■ Create a pool.

Managing free and spare disks

You can set free disks to spare and spare to free.

Note: Disk management is not available forVSP 5000 series, VSP G1000, VSP
G1500, and VSP F1500 storage systems.

If you choose to use the basic method to create parity groups, Ops Center Administrator
will automatically review the available spare disks and allocate more spare disks if
needed.
If you choose to create parity groups using the advanced method, you should review the
number of spare disks in the parity groups inventory summary. If you want to assign
more or fewer spare disks, use disk management.

Procedure
1. On the dashboard, click Storage Systems.
2. Click a storage system tile and click Parity Groups.
3. Click Manage Spare Disk to open the Disk Management page and view disks not
being used in any parity group.
4. Click Disks to Set to Free or Disks to Set to Spare and select one or more disks.
Selecting Disks to Set to Spare will reserve the disks as a spare disks and they
cannot be used for parity group creation. Selecting Disks to Set to Free will
unallocate the spare disks and return then to the pool of available disks.
5. Click Submit.

Parity groups inventory

After parity groups are created, they are displayed for each storage system.
To view parity groups for a storage system, click Storage Systems on the dashboard and
click a storage system tile to view the associated parity groups, pools, volumes, and
ports. Click Parity Groups to open the Parity Groups page.

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 Parity groups inventory

You can perform the following actions on this page:

■ If there are hardware alerts related to the parity groups, you can click the Hardware
Alerts tile to view details for different types of components on the Monitoring page
for the storage system.
■ To assign free and spare disks, click Manage Spare Disks to open the Disk
Management page.

Note: Disk management is not available for VSP 5000 series, VSP G1000,
VSP G1500, or VSP F1500 storage systems.

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 Parity groups inventory

■ Select one or more parity groups and do one of the following:

● To initialize parity groups, click Initialize Parity Groups.
You can create and initialize pool volumes on a parity group if pool volumes have
not been created. You can also format any pool volumes that are in blocked state.
You can initialize parity groups in the following conditions:
● ■ When the parity group either does not have any pool volumes or at least one of
the pool volumes is in Blocked state. In this case, you will notice that the parity
group status is UNINITIALIZED.
■ When the pool volumes on the parity group do not account for the entire parity
group capacity and there are unused partitions on the parity group. In this case
you will notice that the parity group status is Available but the available capacity
is much less than the total capacity. This is supported only when the parity
group status is AVAILABLE_PHYSICAL, IN_USE, or UNINITIALIZED.
● To delete the parity group, click Delete. When you delete a parity group, it is
removed from the storage system and the disks used to create the parity group
are no longer in use. You can delete the parity group if you want to reconfigure the
storage system with some other RAID configuration or simply decommission the
array.

Note: The following parity groups cannot be deleted:

■ Parity groups on VSP 5000 series, VSP G1000, VSP G1500, or VSP
F1500 storage systems.
■ Parity groups that contain NAS boot volumes.
● To enable accelerated compression on parity groups, click Enable Compression
on Parity Groups.
Compression can be enabled for unencrypted parity groups that were created
using FMD DC2 or FMD HDE disks. The parity groups must also be in IN_USE
status.

Note:
The IN_USE status means that the parity group is in a pool. You can
create a pool on an existing parity group that was created using FMD
DC2 or FMD HDE drives. Then identify the parity group in the detail
page for the pool and enable compression in the Parity Groups page.
Parity groups that contain NAS boot volumes cannot be compressed.

After compression is enabled, the status of the parity group is IN_USE.

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 External parity groups inventory

■ Click the plus sign (+) to create a new parity group.

Note: Parity groups on a VSP 5000 series, VSP G1000, VSP G1500, or VSP
F1500 storage systems are created outside Ops Center Administrator by
an authorized service representative.
■ Use the filters to view the status of parity groups. Click a filter to apply it and click it
again to remove it.
● AVAILABLE: Parity group is not being used for any storage pools. It is available for
pool creation.
● AVAILABLE_PHYSICAL: Parity group is not being used for any storage pools.
Compression is enabled on the parity group and physical capacity of the parity
group is available for pool creation. Not applicable to parity groups that are not
enabled for compression.
● FORMATTED: At least one of the pool volumes in the parity group is being
formatted. The full format takes longer than a quick format because the service
processor fully scans the hard drive.
● QUICK_FORMATTING At least one of the pool volumes in the parity group is being
formatted using the quick format method. To make the formatting process quick,
the drive is not fully checked, the files are still there, and the volume could be re-
built to gain access to the files again.
● IN_USE: Parity group is being used by a storage pool.
● UNINITIALIZED: The parity group either has no volumes or at least one of the pool
volumes is in Blocked status, or one or more partitions is uninitialized and has a
size greater than 16,787,456 blocks.
● UNSUPPORTED_ATTACHED: At least one of the pool volumes has a path to a
storage port.
● UNSUPPORTED_INACCESSIBLE_RESOURCE_GROUP: Parity group and at least one
of its pool volumes are in different resource groups and user does not have access
to one of the resource groups.

External parity groups inventory

External parity groups are parity groups in a storage system that is connected to a
storage system that has been onboarded in Ops Center Administrator.
You can display a list of external parity groups in a storage system that has been
registered with Storage Navigator.
You can access the External Parity Groups page by clicking the External Parity Groups tile
on the detail page for a storage system. If the storage system has no external parity
groups, the tile does not display.
External parity groups are not available for deletion, initialization, or compression.
If external parity groups have been used to create a pool (outsideOps Center
Administrator), you can use their capacity to create volumes in Ops Center
Administrator.

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 Enabling accelerated compression in Ops Center Administrator

Enabling accelerated compression in Ops Center Administrator

Accelerated compressioncan be enabled for parity groups on FMD DC2 or FMD HDE
drives that are part of VSP Gx00 models, VSP Fx00 models and VSP 5000 series, VSP
G1000, VSP G1500, or VSP F1500 storage systems. It enable users to realize more virtual
capacity than the actual usable capacity.

Note: Accelerated compression is not compatible with encryption. If a parity

group is encrypted when created, the data cannot be compressed.

Ops Center Administrator only uses the physical capacity of the FMD DC2 or FMD HDE
parity groups for which write is assured.
Accelerated compression can be enabled in the in the Parity Groups inventory page. The
parity groups must be in IN_USE status.
If a pool includes parity groups that have accelerated compression enabled, you can view
the following in the detail page for the pool:
■ Expansion Ratio: The ratio of the total capacity of FMD DC2 or FMD HDE pool
volumes with respect to the total capacity of FMD DC2 or FMD HDE pool volumes
assured for writing.
■ Compression Ratio: The ratio of data size compression.
■ Savings %: Displays the percentage of the capacity reduced by data compression with
respect to the used capacity before the data compression. This will not display a value
until data is compressed.
If the savings percentage for a pool is not high enough, you can provision additional pool
volumes to the pool from the parity groups using FMD DC2 or FMD HDE drives.

Creating a pool
Use the basic option to take advantage of tiers that are based on best practices.
If you want more flexibility and do not need to take advantage of best practices, you can
use the advanced option to select specific parity groups.
You cannot create pools on external parity groups. They must be created outside Ops
Center Administrator.

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 Pools inventory

The types of pools are as follows:

■ DP (Dynamic Provisioning), which is functionality that allocates virtual volumes to a
host and uses the physical capacity that is necessary according to the data write
request.
■ Tiered, which is used with Dynamic Provisioning and places data in a hardware tier
according to the I/O load. For example, a data area that has a high I/O load is placed
in a high-speed hardware tier, and a data area that has a low I/O load is placed in a
low-speed hardware tier.
■ HTI (Thin Image), which stores snapshot data in pools. A pool consists of multiple
pool-VOLs. The pool-VOLs contain the snapshot data. A pool can contain up to 1,024
pool-VOLs.

Pools inventory
Access the Pools page to add, update, and delete pools.
From the dashboard, click Storage Systems and then click a storage system tile to view
parity groups, pools, volumes, and ports.
Click Pools to view the inventory of pools.

Note: If there are external pools (on external storage), they display in Pools
inventory, but they cannot be added, updated, or deleted.

View pool details in either a tile view or a list view. Capacity utilization is represented by a
color bar:
■ Green: Below 70%.
■ Orange: From 70% to 80%.
■ Red: Over 80%.
A key in a tile or row indicates that the pool is encrypted.

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You can filter the volumes as follows:

■ Pool Type: Filter by the pool type: Thin, Tiered, , or Snap .
■ Pool Tier: Filter by the pool tier: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, or External.
■ Active Flash Enabled: Filter by whether Active Flash is enabled.
■ DDM Enabled If True, the pool can be used to migrate volumes greater than 4TiB.
■ Encryption: Filter by whether encryption is used. Select YES, NO, PARTIAL, or
UNKNOWN.
■ FMD Compression: Filter by whether a pool is using a parity group that is enabled for
accelerated compression. Select YES, NO, PARTIAL, or UNKNOWN.
■ Deduplication Enabled: Select YES or NO.
The following actions are available on this page:
■ Click Open the Pools page in Storage Navigator to open the Pools page of Storage
Navigator in a separate browser window.
■ Select one or more pools and click Delete to delete the pools. Deleted pools are de-
provisioned and removed from the storage system.
■ Select a pool and click Edit to update it in the Update Storage Pool page.
■ Select a Tiered Pool and click Update Tiering Settings to update it in the Update
Tiering Settings page.
■ Click the plus sign (+) to add a pool in the Create Pool page.

Opening the Pools inventory page in Storage Navigator

Click Open the Pools page in Storage Navigator to:
■ Shrink or restore a DP /HDT pool
■ View the Tier properties of the HDT Pool
■ Update the Monitoring Mode of the HDT pool
■ Start or stop the monitoring of the HDT pool (if Tier management is set to Manual)
■ Start or stop tier relocation on the HDT pool (if Tier management is set to Manual)
For more information, refer to the Storage Navigator online help.

Note: Any changes you make in Storage Navigator may not be reflected in
Ops Center Administrator for a few minutes.

Creating a pool, basic method

Use the basic method of pool creation to create pools based on best practices.

Before you begin

Create and configure parity groups on the storage system.

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You need a minimum of four parity groups of the Bronze, Silver, or Gold tiers, or one
parity group of the Platinum tier to create a pool using the basic method. Otherwise, you
can use the advanced method of pool creation.
License requirements:
■ For a Dynamic Tiering pool: Dynamic Tiering
■ For a Thin pool: Dynamic Provisioning
■ For a Thin Image pool: Thin Image
■ For active flash: active flash

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Storage Systems to see the
inventory of registered storage systems.
2. Click a storage system to create a pool for it.
3. Click Pools.
4. Click the plus sign (+) to open the Create Pool page.
By default, the Basic option is selected.

5. Enter a Pool Label.

Pool labels can contain only alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores.
Initial hyphens are not allowed.

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6. In the Select capacity from Tiers to Allocate to Pool pane, you can choose
storage from 1, 2, or a maximum of 3 tiers (Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze).
■ If you select only one tier, you can use the Intend to use for ? toggle to decide
whether to use Snap pools.
● Click Yes to create Snap pools.

Note: Use this option if you want to use data protection to create
snapshots. You can also create a pool for snapshots later by
returning to the Create Pool page.
● Click No to create Dynamic Provisioning (HDP) pools. These pools can also be
used to create snapshots.
■ If you select two or three tiers, the system creates Tiered pools. The following
options are available for a Tiered pool:
● Tiering: Select Automatic or Manual monitoring and tier relocation.
● Cycle Time: Select the cycle of performance monitoring and tier relocation.
For automatic tiering, select one of the monitoring cycles from drop down.
Cycle time can be 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8 or 24 hours.
● Monitoring Period: When 24 hours is selected in the cycle time list, specify
the time from 00:00 to 23:59 (default value), in which performance monitoring
is to be performed. Set one or more hours between the starting time and the
ending time. The starting time must not be later than the ending time.
● Monitoring: Specifies the monitoring mode. If you perform the tier relocation
weighted to the past period monitoring result, select Continuous. If you
perform the tier relocation on the specified cycle, select Periodical.
● Relocation Speed: Specifies the page relocation speed. You can set the speed
to: 1 (Slowest), 2 (Slower), 3 (Standard), 4 (Faster), or 5 (Fastest). The default is
3 (Standard). If the speed specified is slower than 3 (Standard), the data drive
load is low when tier relocation is performed.
● Buffer Space for Relocation: Specifies the storage area that is necessary for
processing tier relocation. Set this as percentage of the tier size. For each tier
enter an integer value from 2 to 40 as the percentage to set for that tier. The
default value for each tier is 2%.
● Buffer Space for New Page Assignment: Specifies the storage area that is
necessary for processing new page assignments. Set this as a percentage of
the tier size. For each tier enter an integer value from 0 to 50 as the
percentage to set for that tier. For tier 1, this value must be between 0 and 50.
The default value is 8% for all drive types.

Note: Tiering, Cycle Time, Monitoring Period and Relocation

Speed can only be set in environments with an SVP.

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Table 2 Tier definitions

Tier Disk type

Platinum FMD, FMD DC2, SSD, SSD(RI), FMD HDE,

SSD NVMe

Gold SAS 15 k

Silver SAS 10 k

Bronze SAS 7.2 k

7. Click a selected tier to view the available storage capacity and select a capacity size.
8. Click Tier Management to see the disk type, capacity, and speed of each pool
category.
9. Review the high and low pool utilization thresholds. The thresholds will serve as the
Warning and Critical thresholds for monitoring capacity. Adjust the thresholds if
needed.
If you are creating a Thin (HDP) pool you can also choose whether to permanently
suspend snapshots when usage exceeds the Critical threshold to reserve capacity
for user data. If the threshold is exceeded, the pairs become suspended (PSUE) and
the S-VOLs can never accept read-write operations. You can still write to P-VOLs. If
this option is selected, a message displays in the Utilization graph in the detail page
for the pool.

Note: This option is available for the following storage systems:

■ VSP F1500, VSP G1000, and VSP G1500 with microcode version
80-05-4x and later.
■ VSP F400, F600, F800 and VSP G200, G400, G600, G800 with firmware
version 83-04-4x and later.
■ VSP F350, F370, F700, F900 and VSP G350, G370, G700, G900.
■ VSP N400, N600, N800
■ VSP 5000 series

10. Select the Subscription Limit % checkbox to set the limit to Unlimited.

Note: Subscription Limit % is not applicable to Snap pools or to the

following storage systems: VSP F350, F370, F700, F900, VSP G350, G370,
G700, G900 and VSP 5000 series with firmware versions 90-01-6x.
Subscription Limit % is not applicable to Snap pools or to pools which
have volumes with capacity saving enabled for the following storage
systems: VSP 5000 series

11. Click Submit.

Result
A job is started to allocate the storage capacity and create the pool.

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 How Ops Center Administrator calculates pool sizes for the basic method of pool creation

Next steps
■ Check the status of the pool creation job by clicking Jobs.
■ Create a volume.

How Ops Center Administrator calculates pool sizes for the basic method of pool
creation
Ops Center Administrator incorporates best practices to calculate the best pool sizes
based on the media available in the storage system. When the basic pool creation option
is used, pool size is determined as follows:
■ Ops Center Administrator identifies all the parity groups of the same disk type, disk
capacity, disk speed, RAID type and layout and determines the available capacity of
their usable LDEVs. Only parity groups in the Available and Quick Formatting states
are eligible for pool creating using the basic method.
■ Ops Center Administrator then uses combinations of these parity groups where four
or more parity groups of the Bronze, Silver, or Gold tiers can be added together, or
there is a parity group of the Platinum tier, to compute various possible pool sizes
that can be created for the combination of disk type, disk capacity, disk speed, RAID
type and layout.

Note: If your parity groups do not meet these requirements, you can only
use the advanced method of pool creation.
■ Based on the Storage System model, Ops Center Administrator determines the
maximum pool size.
■ Ops Center Administrator then displays the pools in increasing order of pool size.

Creating a pool, advanced method

You can use the advanced method of pool creation to select parity groups filtered by disk
type, speed, layout, and RAID level. This method does not employ best practices.

Note: Mixing different disk types in a Thin pool is not recommended. If you
choose to create such a pool, Ops Center Administrator identifies the tier in
this pool as "mixed".

Before you begin

Create and configure parity groups on the storage system.
License requirements:
■ For a Dynamic Tiering pool: Dynamic Tiering
■ For a Thinpool: Dynamic Provisioning
■ For a Thin Image pool: Thin Image
■ For active flash: active flash

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Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Storage Systems to see the
inventory of registered storage systems.
2. Click a storage system to create a pool for it.
3. Click Pools.
4. Click the plus sign (+) to open the Create Pool page and click Advanced.

5. Enter a Pool Label.

Pool labels can contain only alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores.
Initial hyphens are not allowed.
6. Select Yes under Intend to enable DDM if you want to use the pool to migrate
volumes greater than 4 TiB.
7. Click the Type list and choose one of the following; HDP, Tiered, or Snap. You can
create snapshots on DP pools as well as on Snap pools.
The following options are available for a tiered pool :
■ Tiering: Select Automatic or Manual monitoring and tier relocation.
■ Cycle Time: Select the cycle of performance monitoring and tier relocation. For
automatic tiering, select one of the monitoring cycles from drop down. Cycle
time can be 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8 or 24 hours.
■ Monitoring Period: When 24 hours is selected in the cycle time list, specify the
time from 00:00 to 23:59 (default value), in which performance monitoring is to
be performed. Set one or more hours between the starting time and the ending
time. The starting time must not be later than the ending time.
■ Monitoring: Specifies the monitoring mode. If you perform the tier relocation
weighted to the past period monitoring result, select Continuous. If you perform
the tier relocation on the specified cycle, select Periodical.
■ Relocation Speed: Specifies the page relocation speed. You can set the speed to:
1 (Slowest), 2 (Slower), 3 (Standard), 4 (Faster), or 5 (Fastest). The default is 3
(Standard). If the speed specified is slower than 3 (Standard), the data drive load
is low when tier relocation is performed.

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■ Buffer Space for Relocation: Specifies the storage area that is necessary for
processing tier relocation. Set this as percentage of the tier size. For each tier
enter an integer value from 2 to 40 as the percentage to set for that tier. The
default value for each tier is 2%.
■ Buffer Space for New Page Assignment: Specifies the storage area that is
necessary for processing new page assignments. Set this as a percentage of the
tier size. For each tier enter an integer value from 0 to 50 as the percentage to
set for that tier. For tier 1, this value must be between 0 and 50. The default
value is 8% for all drive types.

Note: Tiering, Cycle Time, Monitoring Period and Relocation Speed

can only be set in environments with an SVP.

8. Choose whether to enable active flash, which requires capacity from the Platinum
tier.
9. Click Tier Management to see the definitions of disk type, capacity, and speed of
each pool category.
10. Select one or more parity groups to use to create the pool. You can scroll through
the parity groups to use search and filter functions.
■ For a Snap pool, select one or more parity groups with identical disk types.
■ For a HDP pool, select one or more parity groups with identical disk types.
■ For a Tiered pool, select one or more parity groups with two or three disk types.
Ops Center Administrator shows the total size of the pool using the selected parity
groups.

11. Set the utilization thresholds, or use the default threshold settings.
The thresholds are used as the Warning and Critical thresholds for Capacity
Monitoring.
If you are creating a (HDP) pool you can also choose whether to permanently
suspend snapshots when usage exceeds the Critical threshold to reserve capacity
for user data. If the threshold is exceeded, the pairs become suspended (PSUE) and
the S-VOLs can never accept read-write operations. You can still write to P-VOLs. If
this option is selected, a message displays in the Utilization graph in the detail page
for the pool.

Note: This option is available for the following storage systems:

■ VSP F1500, VSP G1000, and VSP G1500 with microcode version
80-05-4x and later.
■ VSP F400, F600, F800 and VSP G200, G400, G600, G800 with firmware
version 83-04-4x and later.
■ VSP F350, F370, F700, F900 and VSP G350, G370, G700, G900.
■ VSP N400, N600, N800
■ VSP 5000 series

12. The subscription limit can be set above 100%. Select the Subscription Limit %
checkbox to set the limit to Unlimited.

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Note: Subscription Limit % is not applicable to Snap pools or to the

following storage systems: VSP F350, F370, F700, F900, VSP G350, G370,
G700, G900 and VSP 5000 series with firmware versions 90-01-6x
Subscription Limit % is not applicable to Snap pools or to pools which
have volumes with capacity saving enabled for the following storage
systems: VSP 5000 series.

13. Click Submit.

Result
A job is started to allocate the storage capacity and create the pool.

Next steps
■ Check the status of the pool-creation job by clicking Jobs.
■ Create volumes.

Pool details
To access pool details, click Storage Systems. Then click a storage system to view all
resources. Click Pools and then click a pool tile.

Note: An external pool cannot be edited or deleted.

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Note: Some values cannot be displayed in an environment without an SVP. In

that case, a hyphen displays.

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On the pool details page you can do the following:

■ View the attributes of the pool.
■ If the pool contains capacity that has had compression technology applied, you can
view the following:
● Total Efficiency The ratio of the total saving effect achieved by accelerated
compression, capacity saving (compression and deduplication), snapshot, and
Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning.
Displays for the following storage systems with firmware version 88-03-0x or later:
VSP F350, F370, F700, F900 and Virtual Storage Platform G350, G370, G700, G900.
■ Compression and Deduplication metrics
■ Software Saving The capacity reduction ratio before and after capacity
saving.
■ Software Compression The capacity compression ratio before and after
capacity saving.
■ Software Deduplication The capacity deduplication ratio before and after
capacity saving.
■ Software Pattern Matching The capacity reduction ratio before and after
capacity saving pattern matching.
■ FMD Compression
■ FMD Saving The capacity reduction ratio before and after capacity saving.
■ FMD Compression The capacity compression ratio before and after
accelerated compression.
■ FMD Pattern Matching The capacity reduction ratio before and after
accelerated compression pattern matching.
■ Calculation End Time The end date and time for the calculation. The date and
time are displayed in UTC.
■ Calculation Start Time The start date and time for the calculation. The date
and time are displayed in UTC.
■ Provisioning Efficiency The efficiency ratio achieved by Dynamic Provisioning.
● Capacity Efficiency The ratio of Thin Free plus Thin Used to the physical used
capacity. Capacity efficiency is only calculated for volumes on Thinand Tiered
pools.
Displays for any storage system other than VSP F350, F370, F700, F900 or VSP
G350, G370, G700, G900 with firmware version 88-03-0x or later.
■ If disk-based compression is in use, either alone or in combination with
controller-based compression, the physical used capacity is that resulting from
disk-based compression alone.
■ If only controller-based compression is in use, the physical used capacity is that
resulting from controller-based compression.
■ If no compression then physical used capacity is the used capacity of the
pool(s).

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● Data Reduction: The ratio of logical used capacity to the physical used capacity,
for all compression and deduplication technologies.

Note: The value displayed as the capacity of data after reduction

includes the size of meta-data and garbage data generated by the
storage system in addition to user data. For this reason, the value
might be greater temporarily than the capacity of data before
reduction.
■ View a graph of utilization and thresholds.
■ If the pool is based on a parity group using accelerated compression ("FMD DC2
Compression"), you can also view compression details, including expansion ratio and
compression ratio.
■ For a tiered pool, view the following tier information:
Pool tier usage for the pools supported on the storage system. Ops Center
Administrator supports Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum tiers. For each tier you can
view statistics for buffer space, tier relocation and performance utilization. Click Edit
to update the storage from tier that has been allocated to the pool.
■ View volumes carved from the pool and perform operations on them. Operations
available include deletion, updating, attaching and detaching to and from servers,
protecting, unprotecting, and restoring. Click a volume in tile or list view to open the
detail page for the volume.
The Provisioning Status can be any of the following:
■ Attached the volume is attached to a server.
■ Unattached the volume is not attached to a server.
■ Unmanaged the volume has only a LUN path associated. For example, a volume
may be attached to a server that is not known to Ops Center Administrator.
The Data Protection can be any of the following:
■ Protected the volume is protected.
■ Unprotected the volume is not protected.
■ Secondary the volume is a snapshot or clone of another volume.
■ If the volume uses compression or deduplication and compression, you can view the
compression ratio and deduplication ratio.
■ Delete the pool.
■ Edit the pool configuration by clicking the pencil icon to open the Update Storage Pool
page.
■ Edit a tiered pool configuration by clicking Update Tiering Settings to open the Update
Tiering Settings page.
■ Once a pool is created, you can edit the pool label or expand the pool. Basic and
advanced options, similar to those for pool creation, are available for pool expansion.
The basic option includes choices for a new/expanded pool size based on the current
set of parity groups in the pool. You can choose to expand an existing tier in the pool
or add a new tier to the pool. If you add a tier to a thin pool, it will be expanded and

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converted into a tiered pool. Using the advanced option enables you to add more
parity groups to the pool and increase capacity.

Note: To expand a HDP pool, you must add a parity group of the same
RAID layout, the same disk type, the same RAID level, and the same disk
speed.

Click Submit to update the window and start a job that will update the pool.

The following actions on volumes are available on this page:

■ Click the plus sign (+) to add volumes on the Create Volumes page.
■ Click a volume to view details and attach, update or delete the volume.
■ Select a volume and click Edit to update the volume by editing the name or updating
the Capacity Saving setting. If the volume is unprotected you can also expand the
capacity.
■ Select one or more volumes to perform one of the following actions:
● To delete volumes, click Delete. When you delete a volume, it is de-provisioned and
removed from the storage system.

Note: If deduplication or compression has been enabled on the volume

and the volume has data, it cannot be deleted in Ops Center
Administrator. Access Storage Navigator to delete the volume.
● To attach volumes to one or more servers on the Attach Volumes page, click Attach
Volumes.
● To detach volumes from servers, click Detach Volumes.
● To apply data protection on the Protect Volumes page, click Protect Volumes.
● To unprotect a volume, select it and click Unprotect.

Note: A volume in an "External" replication group cannot be

unprotected.
● To restore a secondary volume to the primary volume, click Restore to open the
Restore Volume page.
● To attach the volume to a storage system to prepare for volume migration, click
Attach to Storage.
● To migrate volumes, click Migrate Volumes.
● To detach volumes from storage, click Detach from Target Storage.
● To shred volumes that have been migrated, click Shred Volumes.
● Select a tiered volume and click Update Tiering Policy to update the tiering policy.
● To attach like volumes, click Attach Like Volumes.

Update pool tier settings

You can edit the tiering for a single pool.

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Procedure
1. In the detail page for a pool, click Update Tiering Settings to update the following
tiering settings:
■ Tiering: Select Automatic or Manual monitoring and tier relocation.
■ Cycle Time: Select the cycle of performance monitoring and tier relocation. For
automatic tiering, select one of the monitoring cycles from drop down. Cycle
time can be 0.5, 1, 2, 4, 8 or 24 hours.
■ Monitoring Period: When 24 hours is selected in the cycle time list, specify the
time from 00:00 to 23:59 (default value), in which performance monitoring is to
be performed. Set one or more hours between the starting time and the ending
time. The starting time cannot be set later than the ending time.
■ Monitoring: Specify the monitoring mode. If you perform the tier relocation
weighted to the past period monitoring result, select Continuous. If you perform
the tier relocation on the specified cycle, select Periodical.
■ Relocation Speed: Specify the page relocation speed. You can set the speed to:
1 (Slowest), 2 (Slower), 3 (Standard), 4 (Faster), or 5 (Fastest). The default is 3
(Standard). If the speed specified is slower than 3 (Standard), the data drive load
is low when tier relocation is performed.
■ Buffer Space for Relocation: Specify the storage area that is necessary for
processing tier relocation. Set this as percentage of the tier size. For each tier
enter an integer value from 2 to 40 as the percentage to set for that tier. The
default value for each tier is 2%.
■ Buffer Space for New Page Assignment: Specify the storage area that is
necessary for processing new page assignments. Set this as a percentage of the
tier size. For each tier enter an integer value from 0 to 50 as the percentage to
set for that tier. For tier 1, this value must be between 0 and 50. The default
value is 8% for all drive types.

Note: Tiering, Cycle Time, Monitoring Period and Relocation Speed

can only be set in environments with an SVP.
2. Click Submit.

Create, attach, and protect volumes with local replication

You can create volumes and attach them to servers and then apply data protection in a
single workflow by first selecting a server.

Creating volumes to attach to servers

Start the create-and-attach workflow by selecting a server and creating volumes.

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When you create volumes in Ops Center Administrator you can:

■ Create multiple volumes of the same size or different sizes at the same time.
■ Select the specific pool for volume creation or let Ops Center Administrator
automatically select the best pool based on utilization.
■ Specify a common label and starting label suffix for identical volumes that are the
same size and have the same pool requirement.

Before you begin

■ Create parity groups.
■ Create pools.
■ Add servers.

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Servers to see the inventory of
servers.
2. Do one of the following to open the Create, Attach and Protect Volumes page:
■ Select a server, click Attach Volumes, and select Create, Attach, and Protect
Volumes with Local Replication.

■ Click a server tile to open the Server <ID> details page. Click the cylinder icon ( )
in the upper right area and select Create, Attach and Protect Volumes with
Local Replication.

3. Configure volumes for the specified storage system.

You can switch to another storage system by using the drop-down Storage System
list. If you want to add the volume to a virtual storage machine, use the Virtual
Storage Machine list.
a. Select the number of volumes.
b. Enter the volume label and select a suffix for it.

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c. Select the size.

d. Select the volume unit: GiB or TiB.
e. Select the pool type: Thin or Tiered.
f. For a Thin pool, select the pool tier: Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze.
If the storage system has available capacity from external storage, you can also
select the External tier.
g. (Optional) Select the pool from the list of available pools. The default selection
is Auto Selected, which means that Ops Center Administrator selects the best
pool for provisioning the volume based on utilization and tier requirements.

Note: DDM pools are not available and cannot be used to create
volumes.

4. If desired, select a type of Capacity Saving: Compression or Deduplication and

Compression.

Note: Capacity saving can be set for volumes based on tiered pools only
for VSP F1500, VSP G1000, VSP G1500 models with microcode version
80-05-4x or later and VSP 5000 series models .

Note: If you choose Deduplication and Compression and later want to

update the volume to Compression you must first disable Capacity
Saving.

5. (Optional) Select an Volume ID Range if you would like to specify one for the new
volume for granular management of volumes. For instance, for ease of
management, you can assign a certain range of IDs to certain departments in your
organization. ID ranges can be specified in Decimal or Hexadecimal. The default
selection is Auto, which means that Ops Center Administrator automatically selects
the ID for the volume. You can also specify a Virtual ID / Range.
6. (Optional) For a tiered pool, select the Tiering Policy from the drop-down list.
Tiering policy choices available in the drop down will depend on the choice of pool
that was made in the previous step. Tiering policy choice is not available for auto-
selected pools.
7. When you have made your choices, click the plus sign (+) to add volume row to the
list of volumes that will be created. Add more rows as needed.
8. Click Next to be directed to attach volumes to the selected servers.

Attaching newly-created volumes to servers

Ops Center Administrator provides options as part of the attachment of the new
volumes to a single server or multiple servers.

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Procedure
1. The Host Mode is set by default to the server operating system. You can make a
selection if needed.
The server OS Type is provided when the server is added to Ops Center
Administrator.
2. The prepopulated Host Mode Option will depend on the Host Mode selection. The
default Host Mode Option can be changed manually.
Default values are set only for VMWARE EX and WIN EX host modes. The default for
all other Host Modes is none.
Ops Center Administrator identifies all host groups containing any of the server
WWNs. If all of those host groups have the same host mode and host mode options,
those settings are prepopulated with the same settings in the host groups.
3. Select the LUN Alignment.
By default, Ops Center Administrator uses the LUN number that is common to the
servers. If attachment is to only one server, this setting has no effect.
4. The Auto Create Zone is set to No by default. You can set it to Yes to automatically
create zones.
5. Click Next to view options for creating and editing LUN paths.

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6. In the Create Paths panel, you can view servers and their WWNs, along with ports
on the storage system. Ops Center Administrator will scan for existing host groups
on the storage array and attempt to reuse them by default.
For storage systems in the VSP 5000 series, you can click a port to display a list of
ports with their DKC locations, CTL locations, and redundancy levels.

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The following options are available for managing LUN paths:

■ If you connect more than one server to the same port, the Share a host group
with all servers box displays. Select the box to add the servers to a single host
group.
■
Note: If host groups already exist on that port and a single host
group cannot be created, the checkbox will not appear.

To prevent the volume from being added to an existing path, click the path to
highlight it and click Delete Selected.
Existing paths are populated as follows: all existing host groups with one or more
server WWN and the exact same host mode and host mode options selected on
the Attach Settings panel are populated as paths.
■ Click Suggest to populate automatically selected paths. By default, the least-used
ports are selected. Suggest paths requires that both server and storage ports be
logged into the fabric switches in the Ops Center Administrator inventory.

Note: For VSP 5000 series storage systems, the first port suggested
has the fewest LUN definitions and the second port suggested has
the fewest number of LUNs in the highest redundancy level.
■ To manually create a path, click a WWN and a port to connect them with a blue
connector line. Click the connector again and then click Delete Selected to
delete the connection.

7. When you are satisfied with the paths, click Next to view options for protecting
volumes.

Managing storage systems

Access the storage system details page for an overview of registered storage systems. If
you need to configure the storage system, you will need to access the service processor
with Storage Navigator.

Storage system inventory

From the dashboard, click Storage Systems to access the Storage Systems page for an
overview of registered storage systems.

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The Storage Systems page includes a summary section identical to the summary on the
dashboard. This includes monitoring tiles, capacity summary and data protection
summary.
You can search for a specific storage system by searching for its serial number in the
search box. You can also use various filters to find a specific storage systems.
From the storage systems page you can view and manage individual storage systems.
View storage system details in either a tile view or a list view. Capacity utilization is
represented by a color bar:
■ Green: Below 70%.
■ Orange: From 70% to 80%.
■ Red: Over 80%.
The following actions are available:
■ Click a storage system to view details in the Storage System <serial number> page,
where you can also access and manage the associated parity groups, pools, volumes,
and ports.
■ To delete a storage system, select it and click Delete.
■ To edit the user name and password for a storage system, select it and click Edit to
open the Update Storage System <serial number> page.
■ To manually refresh storage systems, select them and click Refresh.
You can view the status of the refreshes in the Jobs page. The date and time of the
last refresh in displayed in the detail page for each storage system.
■ To set up high availability, click High Availability Setup.

Storage system details

View details about a storage system and access resources.

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 Storage system details

On the dashboard, click Storage Systems and then click a Storage System <serial
number> tile.

If the storage system has no SVP, you can click Settings to access the following:
■ Click Launch Storage Advisor Embedded to open Storage Advisor Embedded in a
new browser.
■ Click Switch CTL to connect to switch the IP address that Ops Center Administrator is
using to communicate with the storage system. Use this option if Ops Center
Administrator is unable to communicate with the storage system.
Click Savings to view the following for the following storage systems with firmware
version 88-03-0x or later: VSP F350, F370, F700, F900and VSP G350, G370, G700, G900.
For all other storage systems, Savings includes Data Reduction and Capacity Efficiency.
■ Total Efficiency: The ratio of the total saving effect achieved by accelerated
compression, capacity saving (compression and deduplication), snapshot, and
Dynamic Provisioning.
■ Data Reduction: The ratio of logical used capacity to the physical used capacity, for
all compression and deduplication technologies.

Note: The value displayed as the capacity of data after reduction includes
the size of meta-data and garbage data generated by the storage system
in addition to user data. The value might temporarily be greater than the
capacity of data before reduction.

● If disk-based compression is in use, either alone or in combination with controller-

based compression, the physical used capacity is that resulting from disk-based
compression alone.
● If only controller-based compression is in use, the physical used capacity is that
resulting from controller-based compression.
● If no compression is in use then physical used capacity is the used capacity of the
pool(s).
■ Capacity Efficiency : The ratio of Thin Free plus Thin Used to the physical used
capacity. Capacity efficiency is only calculated for volumes on DP and HDT pools.

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■ Provisioning Efficiency: The efficiency ratio achieved by Dynamic Provisioning.

■ Snapshot Efficiency: The efficiency ratio achieved by snapshot.
Click Details to view the foregoing metrics, plus the following components of Total
Efficiency:
■ Software Compression and Deduplication
● Software Saving: The capacity reduction ratio before and after capacity saving.
● Software Compression: The capacity compression ratio before and after capacity
saving.
● Software Deduplication: The capacity deduplication ratio before and after
capacity saving.
● Software Pattern Matching: The capacity reduction ratio before and after
capacity saving pattern matching.
■ FMD Compression
● FMD Saving: The capacity reduction ratio before and after accelerated
compression.
● FMD Compression: The capacity compression ratio before and after accelerated
compression.
● FMD Pattern Matching: The capacity reduction ratio before and after accelerated
compression pattern matching.
● Calculation Period (UTC): The start date and time for the calculation and the end
date and time for the calculation.
The following actions are available:
■ Click Delete to delete the storage system. This action is available only to users with
the SystemAdministrator role.
■ Click Edit to update the storage system user name and password. This action is
available only to users with the SystemAdministrator role.
■ Click Refresh to manually refresh the storage system.
You can view the status of the refresh in the Jobs page. The date and time of the last
refresh displays in the storage system detail page.
■ Click Settings in the upper-right corner to launch the following:
● Storage Navigator to perform any advanced storage management operations that
are not available in Ops Center Administrator.
● Configure storage system encryption using Storage Navigator.
● If you have onboarded any of the following storage systems you can access
Storage Advisor Embedded: VSP F350, F370, F700, F900 or VSP G350, G370, G700,
G900. Click Launch Storage Advisor Embedded to log in to Storage Advisor
Embedded.
● If the storage system includes optional NAS module, you can launch NAS Manager
to perform operations that are not available in Ops Center Administrator.
■ Review the information gauge regarding available capacity in storage system.

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■ Use the Alerts tiles to access alerts related to the storage system.
■ Click Review Tiered Categories to open the Tier Management page to view and edit
tier categories.

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■ View attributes about the storage system, including information that Ops Center
Administrator discovered about the system, such as model, serial number, and SVP IP
address.

Field Description

Model Model name of the storage system.

S/N Storage system serial number.

SVP Version SVP firmware version.

HORCM Version A data replication component residing on the server.

Cache Capacity Total cache capacity configured on the storage system.

Unused Disks Disks that are not assigned as hot spares or used to create
parity groups.

Unused Disk Capacity Total unused capacity of all disks.

SVP IP Address Address of the service processor on the storage system.

The RMI port number will also be displayed if the port
number is specified at the time of onboarding. The RMI
port number can only be specified for virtual SVP.

Maintenance Utility IP Configured automatically when the storage system is

Addresses 1 and 2 onboarded.

Health Status (for a Robust Operating normally, with no

cluster, if any) failures in the cluster interconnect,
the management network, or
quorum device communication.

Degraded Operating, but one or more nodes

has failed or there has been a
failure in connectivity.

Status (of nodes, if Online The cluster node is a part of the

any) cluster and is exchanging
heartbeats (periodic signals) with
the other cluster members.

Offline Offline - The cluster node is no

longer exchanging heartbeats with
the other cluster members. This
might be caused by a reboot or a
fault condition. Services cannot be
migrated to a cluster node in this
state.

Dead No heartbeats from this cluster

node for a significant period.

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Field Description
Services cannot be migrated to a
cluster node in this state.

Unknown Unknown - The node has not been

online since the cluster was
started.

■ If you notice that the number of unused disks and unused disk capacity is too high, it
implies that you have additional raw capacity in the system that can be converted into
usable capacity by creating parity groups. Click Create Parity Groups to configure
unused disks into parity groups.
■ View the total and unused disk capacity for the different pool tiers.
■ Click Review Tiered Categories to open the Tier Management page, where you can
view the tier definitions and edit their names.
■ Click a tile in the lower portion of the page to display the details for parity groups,
pools, volumes, or ports for the storage system.

Using Storage Navigator for advanced storage configuration

Storage Navigator is the element manager for a supported storage system block module.
It is a factory-installed application running on the SVP, which is directly connected to the
storage system. You can access Storage Navigator from the Storage System details page
for advanced configuration options while performing management operations such as
remote replication, volume migration, and resource group management with Ops Center
Administrator.
Storage systems with an SVP cannot be managed using Storage Navigator.

Note: If you use Storage Navigator to manage resource groups, make sure
that the user who adds storage systems in Ops Center Administrator has
access to all custom resource groups and meta resource groups.

Use the Storage Navigator online help to obtain procedure information for advanced
storage configuration tasks.

Accessing Storage Navigator

Launch Storage Navigator from the Settings menu available in the Storage System details
page. In the login dialog, use the user account assigned to you by your security
administrator.
The tasks that you can do on the system depend on the user role assigned to the user
groups to which you belong. Security administrators with view and modify privileges are
responsible for setting up user accounts in Storage Navigator.
Refer to the Roles table for roles that are available for use in Storage Navigator and the
permissions that each role provides to the users.

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Roles and permissions

The following table shows all the roles that are available for use and the permissions that
each role provides to the users. You cannot create a custom role.

Note: The Support Personnel group and the Support Personnel (Vendor Only)
role contain permissions to perform maintenance. Assign this role only to the
accounts used by support personnel from vendors responsible for
maintenance.

Role Permissions

Security Administrator ■ Viewing information about user accounts and encryption settings
(View Only) ■ Viewing information about the encryption key in the key SVP

Security Administrator ■ Configuring user accounts

(View & Modify) ■ Creating encryption keys and configuring encryption settings
■ Viewing and switching where encryption keys are generated
■ Backing up and restoring encryption keys
■ Deleting encryption keys backed up in the key SVP
■ Viewing and changing the password policy for backing up encryption
keys on the management client
■ Connection to the external server
■ Backing up and restoring connection configuration to the external
server
■ Configuring the certificate used for the SSL communication
■ Configuring resource groups
■ Editing virtual management settings
■ Setting reserved attributes for global-active device

Audit Log ■ Viewing audit log information and downloading audit logs
Administrator (View
Only)

Audit Log ■ Configuring audit log settings and downloading audit logs
Administrator (View &
Modify)

Storage Administrator ■ Viewing storage system information

(View Only)

Storage Administrator ■ Configuring settings for storage systems

(Initial Configuration) ■ Configuring settings for SNMP
■ Configuring settings for e-mail notification

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Role Permissions
■ Configuring settings for license keys
■ Viewing, deleting, and downloading storage configuration reports
■ Acquiring all the information about the storage system and updating
Device Manager - Storage Navigator window by clicking Refresh All

Storage Administrator ■ Configuring settings for CLPR

(System Resource ■ Configuring settings for MP unit
Management)
■ Deleting tasks and releasing exclusive locks of resources
■ Configuring LUN security
■ Configuring Server Priority Manager
■ Configuring tiering policies

Storage Administrator ■ Configuring caches

(Provisioning) ■ Configuring volumes, pools, and virtual volumes
■ Formatting and shredding volumes
■ Configuring external volumes
■ Configuring Dynamic Provisioning
■ Configuring host groups, paths, and WWN
■ Configuring Volume Migration except splitting Volume Migration pairs
when using CCI
■ Configuring access attributes for volumes
■ Configuring LUN security
■ Creating and deleting quorum disk used with global-active device
■ Creating and deleting global-active device pairs
■ Editing virtual management settings
■ Setting reserved attributes for global-active device.

Storage Administrator ■ Configuring monitoring

(Performance ■ Starting and stopping monitoring
Management)

Storage Administrator ■ Performing pair operations for local copy

(Local Copy) ■ Configuring environmental settings for local copy
■ Splitting Volume Migration pairs when using CCI

Storage Administrator ■ Remote copy operations in general

(Remote Copy) ■ Operating global-active device pairs (except for creation and deletion)

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Role Permissions

Support Personnel Configuring the SVP

(Vendor Only) ■ Normally, this role is for service representatives.

Support Personnel ■ Viewing storage system status

(User) ■ Installing OS security patches
■ Updating operating systems
■ Performing basic maintenance

Notes:
1. Normally, the Support Personnel role is reserved for service representatives, however if the
role is assigned to a user account, dump files can be downloaded using the Dump tool.
2. Completing SIMs is permitted for users who are assigned to both the Storage Administrator
(System Resource Management) role and Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role.

Using NAS Manager for advanced file storage configuration

NAS Manager is the element manager for NAS modules. It is a factory-installed

application running on the NAS modules. You can access NAS Manager from the Storage
System details page for advanced configuration options while performing management
operations such as data protection, server settings and network configuration.
Use the NAS Manager online help to obtain procedure information for advanced file
storage configuration tasks.

Accessing NAS Manager

Launch NAS Manager from the Settings menu available in the Storage System details
page. In the login dialog, use the user account assigned to you by your administrator.
The tasks that you can do on the system depend on your user role.
Refer to the Administrator types and responsibilities list for roles that are available for
use in NAS Manager and the permissions that each role provides to the users.

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Administrator types and responsibilities

This section describes the types of NAS storage system administrators and defines their
expected roles in managing the system and the associated storage subsystems.
■ Global Administrators can manage everything in the system: file systems, file
services, or file system related features and functions, storage devices and their
components. Also, the Global Administrator creates and manages SMU user profiles
(Server Administrators, Storage Administrators, Server+Storage Administrators, and
other Global Administrators). Global Administrators also control what servers and
storage devices each administrator can access.
■ Storage Administrators manage storage devices, as specified in the administrator
profile created by the Global Administrator.
Storage Administrators can manage only storage devices and their components
(racks, physical disks, SDs, and storage pools). Storage Administrators cannot manage
file systems, file services, or file system related features and functions, and they
cannot manage users.
■ Server Administrators manage servers and clusters, as specified in the
administrator profile created by the Global Administrator. Server Administrators
cannot manage storage devices.
Server Administrators can manage file systems and file services such as CIFS Shares,
NFS Exports, and they can manage file system related features and functions such as
snapshots, quotas, and migration policies and schedules.
■ Server+Storage Administrators manage servers, clusters, and storage devices, as
specified in the administrator profile created by the Global Administrator.
Server+Storage administrators can manage everything Server Administrators and
Storage Administrators can manage: file systems, file services, or file system related
features and functions, and they can also manage storage devices and their
components.
All administrators can connect to the NAS storage system through NAS Manager, the
browser-based management utility provided by the system management unit (SMU).
Additionally, Global Administrators on an external or virtual SMU can connect to the SMU
command line interface (CLI). SMU CLI access is not available on an embedded SMU or a
NAS module SMU.
Read-only users: The above roles (when defined for local users or Active Directory
groups) can be modified by making them read-only. A read-only user has permission to
view most pages of the NAS Manager; however, they are not generally allowed to
perform any actions on the NAS Manager that would trigger a system or configuration
change.

Note: Server Administrators, Storage Administrators, and Server+Storage

Administrators cannot access all of the NAS Manager pages that a Global
Administrator can access.

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 Tier management

Storage Advisor Embedded provides management for a single storage system with a
simple interface and intuitive navigation. It is part of the following storage systems: VSP
F350, F370, F700, F900 and VSP G350, G370, G700, G900.

Accessing Storage Advisor Embedded

Access Storage Advisor Embedded from the detail page of the storage system. Click
Settings and select Launch Storage Advisor Embedded.

Using Storage Advisor Embedded

You can access Storage Advisor Embedded to view storage system performance in real
time and review capacity usage and data reduction.

Note: To review historical performance, you can access the performance

monitor in Storage Navigator.

Storage Advisor Embedded allows you to quickly and easily create one-time snapshots
and Snap Clones.
You can also use Storage Advisor Embedded to create pools and volumes and update
ports.

Note: Resources created outside Ops Center Administrator will take a few
minutes to update in Ops Center Administrator.

Tier management

The Tier Management page displays the tier definitions. You can edit the tier names
(Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and External).
Access the Tier Management page in one of these ways:
■ Click Settings and select Tier Management.
■ In the detail page for a storage system, click Tier Management.

Updating a storage system

Update the user name and password for a storage system. This action requires the
SystemAdministrator role be assigned to the user.

Procedure
1. Log into Storage Navigator and create a new user.
2. Access the Update Storage System <serial number> page one of these ways:
■ On the Storage Systems page, select a storage system and click Edit.
■ On the Storage System <serial number> page, click Edit.

3. Edit the Username or Password and click Submit.

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 Managing servers

Managing servers
Ops Center Administrator supports provisioning storage to a group of server WWNs by
allowing logical servers to be managed by Ops Center Administrator. Once servers are
onboarded in Ops Center Administrator, storage volumes can be provisioned to the
servers by creating Host Storage Domains and optionally creating zones to provide a
path between the storage volume and server.

Adding servers
Add servers so you can attach volumes.
You can add multiple server parameters from a file, or add one server at a time.
There are two methods of adding servers:
■ Manually add information for one server at a time.
■ Import a CSV (comma-separated values) file with information for one server in each
row.
The CSV file must have the following headings:
■ For Fibre: Name, OSType, WWNs (comma separated list of WWNs).
Description and IPAddress are optional headings.
■ For iSCSI: Name, OSType, IscsiName (comma separated list of names).
Description, IPAddress, ChapUser and ChapSecret are optional headings.
Valid OSType values are as follows:
■ AIX
■ HP_UX
■ LINUX
■ NETWARE
■ OVMS
■ SOLARIS
■ TRU64
■ VMWARE
■ VMWARE_EX
■ WIN
■ WIN_EX

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Servers. Then click the plus sign
(+) to open the Add Server page.

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2. On the Add Server page, do one of the following:

■ Click the upper plus sign (+) to browse for the CSV file or drag the file to the plus
sign. The values from the file will populate the page. Example:
Name,Description,IPAddress,OSType,WWNS
Esxi,ESXI HOST,10.30.90.200,VMWARE_EX,10:00:00:05:33:26:f7:21
Win,WINDOWS
HOST,10.30.91.80,WIN_EX,"10:00:00:05:33:26:f7:37,10:00:00:05:3
3:26:f7:36"
ESXi_Cisco_1,ESXi HOST connected to Cisco
Fabric,,VMWARE_EX,"10:00:00:05:33:26:e0:fc,10:00:00:05:33:26:e
0:fd"
ESXi_Cisco_2,ESXi HOST connected to Cisco
Fabric,,VMWARE_EX,"100000053326df1a,100000053326df1b"
■ To add both Fibre and iSCSI servers, use the following format:
Name,Description,IPAddress,OSType,WWNS,IscsiNames,CHAPUserName
,CHAPUserSecret
linux-iscsi,test dummy host,20.10.10.10,Linux,,"iqn. linux-
iscsi-1,iqn. linux-iscsi-2,eui.1234567890abCDef",,,,
-windows-iscsi-uni-chap,test dummy
host,20.10.10.20,Win,,"iqn.-windows-iscsi-uni-
chap",chapUserName,chapUserSecret,,
-windows-iscsi-bi-chap,test dummy host,20.10.10.30,Win,,"iqn.-
windows-iscsi-bi-
chap",chapUserName,chapUserSecret,chapUserName,chapUserSecret
-vmware-iscsi-longest,test dummy
host,20.10.10.40,VMWARE,,"iqn.12345678901234567890123456789012
34567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
56789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456
78901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678
9,eui.3234567890abCDef",,,,
ed801h,Windows,10.197.73.57,WIN,"10:00:00:90:fa:b4:a8:71"
ed800n,ESX Host,10.197.73.7,VMWARE,"10:00:00:90:fa:55:85:5d"
-linux,test dummy
host,10.10.10.10,Linux,10:10:10:10:10:10:10:10
-windows,test dummy
host,10.10.10.20,Win,10:10:10:10:10:10:10:20
-vmware,test dummy
host,10.10.10.30,VMWARE,10:10:10:10:10:10:10:30

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 Exporting servers

■ Click the plus sign (+) in the table to add a row and enter the required
information for Fibre Channel or iSCSI. You can add more servers by clicking the
plus sign again.
■ (Optionally) You can use the WWN List to add/edit a server.

3. Click Submit to add the servers.

Next steps
Create volumes and attach them to the server.

Exporting servers
You can export servers added to Ops Center Administrator by clicking the download icon
( ) at the top right corner of the server page. You can then download a CSV file with
information about all added servers.
The CSV file will have the following information:
■ Name
■ Description
■ IPAddress
■ OSType
■ WWNs (for FC servers)
■ IscsiNames (for iSCSI servers)
■ CHAPUserName (for iSCSI servers)

Note: The export function does not save the "CHAPUserSecret" because that
information is confidential. You will need to enter the Secret if you want to
import this CSV file. Ops Center Administrator warns you of this fact before
you export.

Server and server groups inventory

The Servers page displays all servers and includes a graphic summary based on
operating systems.

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 Server details

To find the server you are looking for, you can either search by server ID or narrow down
the list of servers using filters available.
You can click server tiles on this page to access details of individual servers and manage
their volumes.
The following actions are available on this page:
■ To add a server, click the plus sign (+) to open the Add Servers page.
■ You can select one or more servers and perform the following actions:
● Click Delete to delete the server.
● Click Edit to update server parameters.
● Click Create and Attach Volumes to use the provided workflow to create new
volumes, attach them to the server, and optionally, protect the volumes.
● Click Attach Existing Volumes to attach existing volumes to the server.
● Click Use Existing LUN Paths to access the Use Existing LUN Paths page.
● Click the Server Group tab to add, edit and delete server groups.
■ Click the plus sign (+) to open the Add Server Group page.
■ Select a server group and click Edit to open the Update Server Group page.
■ Click a Server Group ID to access the server group detail page.
■ To manage volumes for a server group, select it and click Attach. Then select
Attach Existing Volumes, Create, Attach and Protect Volumes with Local
Replication, or Create, Attach and Protect Volumes with High Availability.

Server details
The Server details page provides you all the details about the server as well as a list of
volumes, if any, attached to the server.
This page also shows path details for every volume attached to the server, including the
storage ports and server WWNs used to create HSDs as well as the host mode options
set up on the HSD.

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 Server details

You can perform server actions such as removing the server, editing the server or
provisioning volumes to server by attaching existing volumes or creating and attaching
new volumes.
You can perform volume operations such protecting or detaching volumes.
On the dashboard, click Servers to open the Servers inventory page. Then click a server
tile to open the Server <ID> detail page for the selected server.

You can perform the following actions at the server level:

■ Click Delete to remove the server.
■ Click Edit to update server parameters.
■
Click the cylinder icon ( ) and select one of the following:
● Attach Existing Volumes to attach volumes to the server.
● Create and Attach Volumes to create volumes and attach them to the server.
■ A server using the iSCSI protocol may have volumes with a mutual CHAP user. Edit the
mutual CHAP user by clicking the arrow next to one of the volumes and click Edit
Mutual CHAP User. You can edit the mutual CHAP user name and the mutual CHAP
secret.
■ Edit the host group settings of a server using the Fibre protocol by clicking the details
of an attached volume and clicking Edit. In the Edit Host Group page you can set the
path to preferred or non-preferred and change the host group name.
The following actions are available for volumes:
■ If there is a Data Protection Failed alert, you can click it to see failed data protection
jobs on the Data Protection Monitoring page.
■ Click Edit to rename a volume on the Update Volume page. If the volume is
unprotected, you can also update the size.
■ Click Edit LUN Path to open the Edit Paths page where you can update LUN paths.
■ Click Detach Volumes to detach volumes from the server.
Before confirming, you can choose whether to remove SAN zones.
■ Click Protect Volumes to protect volumes using Ops Center Administrator data
protection technologies.

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■ Click Unprotect Volumes to remove data protection applied to volumes.

■ Click Restore Volumes to restore from a backup.
■ Click Attach to Storage to attach volumes to target storage to prepare for volume
migration where source and target storage systems are both managed in Ops Center
Administrator.
■ Click Migrate Volumes to migrate volumes.
■ For a tiered volume, click Update Tiering Policy to update the tiering policy for the
volume.
■ Click Attach Like Volumes to attach like volumes for local replication or for high
availability.

Updating a server
You can change the parameters for an existing server.

Procedure
1. Access the Update Server page in one of these ways:
■ From the dashboard, click Servers to open the inventory of servers. Select a
server and click Edit.
■ On the detail page for a server, click the pencil icon.

2. Edit any of the following for a server with the Fibre Channel protocol:
■ Server Name
■ Description
■ IP Address

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■ OS Type
■ Modify Existing WWNs
■ Add New WWNs
a. If needed, add new WWNs and click the plus sign to add them to the list.
b. (Optionally) Click WWN List to select and update existing WWNs.
c. You can select a reference WWN to add the new WWN into host groups to
which the reference WWN belongs.

Note: If reference WWN is specified, Apply changes to attached

volumes must also be checked.

d. Click Apply changes to attached volumes to make the following changes:

■ If a WWN has been updated, all host groups with the old WWN are updated
with the new one. All zones created in Ops Center Administrator have the
old WWN removed and new address populated.
■ If a WWN is deleted, it will be removed from any host group that has it. If the
host group is left with no WWNs, the entire host group is deleted. All zones
created in Ops Center Administrator have the deleted WWN removed.
■ If you add a reference WWN, host groups are edited. If you do not add a
reference WWN, no host groups are edited. You can use Ops Center
Administrator to add paths using the new LUN.
■ Changes to name, description, IP address, or OS type do not impact host
groups.

3. Edit any of the following for a server with the iSCSI protocol:
■ Server Name
■ Description
■ IP Address
■ OS Type
■ Modify Existing iSCSI Names
■ Add New iSCSI Names
■ Enable or Disable CHAP Settings.
a. You can select a reference iSCSI name to add the modified or new iSCSI name
into host groups to which the reference iSCSI belongs.
b. (Optionally) Click ISCSI List to select and update existing iSCSI names.
c. Select Update CHAP Credential to add a new CHAP user.
d. Click Apply changes to attached volumes to make the following changes:
■ If an iSCSI initiator name has been updated, all iSCSI targets with the old
iSCSI name are updated with the new one.
■ If a iSCSI initiator name is deleted, it will be removed from any iSCSI target
that has it. If the iSCSI target is left with no iSCSI initiator names, the entire
iSCSI target is deleted.

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 Edit LUN paths

■ If a iSCSI initiator name is added, no iSCSI targets are edited. You can use
Ops Center Administrator to add paths using the new LUN.
■ If a CHAP user information changes, Ops Center Administrator will update
the information on the storage system.
■ Changes to name, description, IP address, or OS type do not impact iSCSI
targets.

Edit LUN paths

Update LUN paths for volumes that are attached to a server.
If LUN paths become outdated, you can update them through the detail page for the
server.

Procedure
1. On the dashboard, click Servers and click the server that needs to be updated to
open the detail page for the server.
2. Select one or more volumes for which you want to edit LUN paths and click Edit
LUN Path to open the Edit Paths page.

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 Edit LUN paths

For storage systems in the VSP 5000 series, you can click a port to display a list of
ports with their DKC locations, CTL locations, and redundancy levels.

3. The Host Mode is set by default to the server operating system. You can make a
selection if needed.
The server OS Type is provided when the server is added to Ops Center
Administrator.

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 Reusing existing LUN paths

4. The prepopulated Host Mode Option will depend on the Host Mode selection. The
default Host Mode Option can be changed manually.
Default values are set only for VMWARE EX and WIN EX host modes. The default for
all other Host Modes is none.
Ops Center Administrator identifies all host groups containing any of the server
WWNs. If all of those host groups have the same host mode and host mode options,
those settings are prepopulated with the same settings in the host groups.
5. Auto Create Zone is set to No by default. You can set it to Yes to automatically
create zones.
6. Click Next.
7. In the Edit Paths page, you can view servers and their WWNs, along with ports on
the storage system.
Ops Center Administrator will scan for existing host groups on the storage system
and attempt to reuse them by default. The following options are available for
managing LUN paths:
■ Existing paths are populated as follows: all existing host groups with one or more
server WWNs and the exact same host mode and host mode options selected on
the Attach Settings panel are populated as paths.
■ To prevent the volume from being added to an existing path, click the path to
highlight it and click Delete Selected.
■ To manually create a path, click a WWN and a port to connect them with a blue
connector line. Click the connector again and then click Delete Selected to
delete the connection.

8. When you are satisfied with the paths, click Submit.

Reusing existing LUN paths

You can select an existing server and resuse it's LUN paths in another server.

Before you begin

The selected server must have the same operating system as the server whose LUN
paths you want to use.

Procedure
1. In the Servers page, select a server and click Use Existing LUN Paths to open the
Use Existing LUN Paths page.

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 Managing server groups

2. Select a server and click Next to configure paths. Select paths for the Selected
Server and click Submit.

Managing server groups

Use server groups to simplify management of servers.

Adding a server group

Add server groups to manage more than one server at a time.

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 Updating a server group

Note: A sever group can only use a single protocol, either Fibre host or iSCSI
host.

Procedure
1. On the Servers page, click Server Group and click the plus sign (+) to open the Add
Server Group page.

2. Add the server group name. A description is optional.

3. Select the servers you want to add to the server group and click Add. All the servers
in a single server group must use the same protocol. Click Submit.

Updating a server group

Add and remove servers from a group, or update the name and description.

Procedure
1. Access the Updating a Server Group page by opening the Servers page. Click the
Server Groups tab.
2. Select a server group and click Edit.
3. You can update the name and description. Add or remove servers to the server
group as desired and click Submit.

Server group details

Use the server group details page to manage servers and attached volumes in the server
group.

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 Managing volumes

Access the server group details page by clicking Server Group ID in the Server Group tab
of the Servers page.

The following server group operations can be performed on this page:

■ Select a server group and click Edit to access the Update Server Group page for a
single server group, where you can add or remove servers, and edit the name or
description.
■ Select one or more server groups and click Attach Volumes to open the menu for
Attach Existing Volumes, Create, Attach and Protect Volumes with Local Replication or
with High Availability.

Managing volumes
A volume is a single accessible storage area, created in a pool within a parity group on a
storage system. Create a volume and manage its properties with Ops Center
Administrator.

About capacity saving

Capacity saving reduces the used capacity of volumes.
Ops Center Administrator enables you to use capacity saving when you create or update
a volume.
A capacity saving volume is a dynamically provisioned volume (DP-Vol) that is capable of
compression or both deduplication and compression.

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Ops Center Administrator offers the following capacity saving options:

■ Compression
Compression allows you to reduce the used capacity of your volume.
■ Deduplication and compression
Deduplication identifies duplicate data blocks in order to remove redundancy.
■ No
No data compression or deduplication is done.

Creating volumes

Create volumes for a registered storage system so you can attach them to a server.
When you create volumes in Ops Center Administrator you can:
■ Create multiple volumes of the same size or different sizes at the same time.
■ Select the specific pool for volume creation or let Ops Center Administrator
automatically select the best pool based on utilization.
■ Specify a common label and starting label suffix for identical volumes that are the
same size and have the same pool requirement.
■ Set up compression, or deduplication and compression for the volume.

Before you begin

■ Create parity groups.
■ Create pools.
■ Add servers (optional).

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Storage Systems to see the
inventory of storage systems and capacity information.
2. Click a storage system to see its configuration of servers, pools, ports, volumes, and
parity groups.
3. Click Volumes to see the inventory of configured volumes for the storage system.
4. Click the plus sign (+) to open the Create Volumes page.

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 Creating volumes

5. Configure volumes for the specified storage system.

a. If you want to add the volume to a virtual storage machine, select one in the
Virtual Storage Machine menu.
b. Enter the volume label and select a suffix for it.
c. Select the number of volumes.
d. Select the size.
e. Select the volume unit: GiB or TiB.
f. Select the pool type: Tiered or Thin.
g. For a Thin pool, select the Pool Tier.
If the storage system has available capacity from external storage, you can also
select the External tier.
h. (Optional) Select the pool from the list of available pools. The default selection
is Auto Selected, which means that Ops Center Administrator selects the best
pool for provisioning the volume based on utilization and tier requirements.

Note: DDM pools are not available and cannot be used to create
volumes.

i. You can select Compression, Deduplication and Compression, or No from

the Capacity Saving drop down list.

Note: Capacity saving can be set for volumes based on tiered pools
only for VSP F1500, VSP G1000, and VSP G1500 models with
microcode version 80-05-4x or later and also on VSP 5000 series
models.

Note: If you choose Deduplication and Compression and later

want to update the volume to Compression you must first disable
Capacity Saving.

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 Attaching existing volumes to a server

j. (Optional) Select an Volume / ID Range if you would like to specify one for the
new volume for granular management of volumes. For instance, for ease of
management, you can assign a certain range of IDs to certain departments in
your organization. ID ranges can be specified in decimal or dexadecimal. The
default selection is Auto, which means that Ops Center Administrator
automatically selects the ID for the volume.
k. (Optional) For a Tiered Pool, select the Tiering Policy from the drop-down list.
Tiering policy choices available in the drop down will depend on the choice of
pool that was made in the previous step. Tiering policy choice is not available
for auto-selected pools.

6. Click the plus sign to move the configured volume to the lower portion of the
Create Volumes page.
A blank row appears at the top of the page where you can create more volumes.
7. Click Submit.

Result
A job is started to create the volumes and add them to the volume inventory for the
storage system.

Next steps
■ Check the status of the volume-creation job by clicking Jobs.
■ Attach volumes to a server.

Attaching existing volumes to a server

If there are volumes that have not been attached to servers, you can use this procedure
to attach them.

Before you begin

■ Enable security on ports.
■ Add servers.
■ Create volumes.

Procedure
1. To select volumes and servers, do one of the following:
■ On the Volumes inventory page for a storage system, select one or more
volumes and click Attach Volumes to select servers on the Attach Volumes
page.
■ On the Servers inventory page, select one or more servers and click Attach
Volumes to select volumes on the Attach Volumes page.
■ On the detail page for a pool, select one or more volumes and click Attach
Volumes to select servers on the Attach Volumes page.

2. Click Next to view options for attaching existing volumes.

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 Attaching existing volumes to a server

3. The Host Mode is set by default to the server operating system. You can make a
selection if needed.
The server OS Type is provided when the server is added to Ops Center
Administrator.
4. The prepopulated Host Mode Option will depend on the Host Mode selection. The
default Host Mode Option can be changed manually.
Ops Center Administrator identifies all host groups containing any of the server
WWNs. If all of those host groups have the same host mode and host mode options,
those settings are prepopulated with the same settings in the host groups.
Default values are set only for VMWARE EX and WIN EX host modes. The default for
all other Host Modes is none.
5. Select the LUN Alignment.
By default, Ops Center Administrator uses the LUN number that is common to the
servers. If attachment is to only one server, this setting has no effect.
6. (Optional) Select a method and specify a virtual volume ID range in the Virtual ID/
Range field.
7. The Auto Create Zone is set to No by default. You can set it to Yes to automatically
create zones.
8. (Optional) Enter the LUN number you want to attach the volume to.
9. Click Next to view options for creating and editing LUN paths.

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 Attaching existing volumes to a server

10. In the Create Paths panel, you can view servers and their WWNs, along with ports
on the storage system. The following options are available for managing LUN paths:
For storage systems in the VSP 5000 series, you can click a port to display a list of
ports with their DKC locations, CTL locations, and redundancy levels.

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 Attaching like volumes

Ops Center Administrator will scan for existing host groups on the storage array and
attempt to reuse them by default. The following options are available for managing
LUN paths:
■ If you connect more than one server to the same port, the Share a host group
with all servers box displays. Select the box to add the servers to a single host
group.

Note: If host groups already exists on that port and single host group
cannot be created, the checkbox will not appear.
■ Existing paths are populated as follows: all existing host groups with one or more
server WWN and the exact same host mode and host mode options selected on
the Attach Settings panel are populated as paths.
To prevent the volume from being added to an existing path, click the path to
highlight it and click Delete Selected.
■ Click Suggest to populate automatically selected paths. By default, the least-used
ports are selected.
■ To manually create a path, click a WWN and a port to connect them with a blue
connector line. Click the connector again and then click Delete Selected to
delete the connection. Suggest paths requires that both server and storage ports
be logged into the fabric switches in the Ops Center Administrator inventory.

11. When you are satisfied with the paths, click Submit.

Attaching like volumes

Allocate volume to servers using existing volume settings.
You attach like volumes for local replication or for high availability.

Procedure
1. Select a volume in one of the following ways:
■ On the Server detail page.
■ On the Volumes page.
■ Begin on a Volume detail page.
■ On the details page for a pool.
■ On the Volumes page in a virtual storage machine.

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 Update a volume

2. Click Attach Like Volumes and select one of the following:

■ Select Attach Like Volumes with Local Replication to access the Create,
Attach and Protect Volumes page.
The volume settings and paths will be copied from the selected volume. You can
make changes as needed.
Refer to Create, attach, and protect volumes with local replication (on page 53)
for more information.
■ Select Attach Like Volumes with High Availability to access the Create,
Attach and Protect Volumes with High Availability page.
The volume settings and paths will be copied from the selected volume. You can
make changes as needed.
Refer to Create, attach, and protect volumes with High Availability (on page 137)
for more information.

Update a volume
You can expand an unprotected volume and rename any volume. You can also enable or
disable deduplication and compression.

Procedure
1. Navigate to details for a single volume in one of these ways:
■ From the dashboard, click Storage Systems and then click a storage system tile
to view its resources. Click Volumes and then click the volume tile for the volume
you want to update.
■ From the dashboard, click Servers and then click a server tile to view its volumes.
Click a volume tile for the volume you want to expand.

2. On the Volume <ID> page click Edit to open the Update Volume page.

Note: To reset a volume to the default settings, click Reset.

3. You can rename the volume, and if it is unprotected, you can change the size by
clicking the up and down arrows next to the volume size.
4. Under Change Compression Type, select Compression or Deduplication and
Compression to change the type. To disable compression, select No.

Note: If Deduplication and Compression is enabled and you want to

update to Compression you must first update to No and then update
again.

5. Click Submit.

Result
A job is started to update the volume.

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 Volumes inventory

Volumes inventory
The Volumes page enables you to filter, sort, and edit volumes for a single storage
system, and to select volumes for data protection.
Access the inventory of volumes for a storage system to gain insight into volume size,
data protection and utilization. You can also create volumes, attach existing volumes and
perform data protection operations.

View volume details in either a tile view or a list view. Capacity utilization is represented
by a color bar:
■ Green: Below 70%.
■ Orange: From 70% to 80%.
■ Red: Over 80%.

Note: Volumes labeled HSA-reserved are created automatically when file

pools are created and no operations can be performed on them in Ops
Center Administrator.

The following actions are available on this page:

■ To interrupt shredding operations, click Interrupt Shredding and confirm.
■ If there are Data Protection Alerts, click the tile to view the alerts in the Monitoring
tab.
■ Click the plus sign (+) to add volumes on the Create Volumes page.
■ Click a volume to view details and attach, update or delete the volume.

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■ Select a volume and click Edit to update the volume by editing the name or updating
the Capacity Saving setting. If the volume is unprotected you can also expand the
capacity.
■ Select one or more volumes to perform one of the following actions:
● To delete volumes, click Delete. When you delete a volume, it is de-provisioned and
removed from the storage system.

Note: If deduplication or compression has been enabled on the volume

and the volume has data, it cannot be deleted in Ops Center
Administrator. Access Storage Navigator to delete the volume.
● To attach volumes to one or more servers on the Attach Volumes page, click Attach
Volumes.
● To detach volumes from servers, click Detach Volumes.
● To apply data protection on the Protect Volumes page, click Protect Volumes.
● To unprotect a volume, select it and click Unprotect.

Note: A volume in an "External" replication group cannot be

unprotected.
● To restore a secondary volume to the primary volume, click Restore to open the
Restore Volume page.
● To attach the volume to a storage system to prepare for volume migration, click
Attach to Storage.
● To migrate volumes, click Migrate Volumes.
● To detach volumes from storage, click Detach from Target Storage.
● To shred volumes that have been migrated, click Shred Volumes.
● Select a tiered volume and click Update Tiering Policy to update the tiering policy.
● To attach like volumes, click Attach Like Volumes.

Opening the Volumes inventory page in Storage Navigator

Click Open the Logical Devices page in Storage Navigator to open the Volumes
inventory page and:
■ Create a Command Device from a volume
■ Restore a blocked volume
For more information, refer to the Storage Navigator online help.

Note: Any changes you make in Storage Navigator may not be reflected in
Ops Center Administrator for a few minutes.

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 Volume details

Volume details
Access volume details in one of these ways:
■ From the dashboard by clicking Storage Systems, and then click a storage system tile.
Click Volumes to open the Volumes page and then click a volume in the list or tile
view.
■ On the detail page for a pool, click a volume in the list or tile view.

The Volume details page exposes pool details including Pool ID, type and tier of the pool.
The volumes that are attached to servers are listed under Attached Servers.
The Provisioning Status can be any of the following:
■ Attached: the volume is attached to a server.
■ Unattached: the volume is not attached to a server.
■ Unmanaged: the volume has only a LUN path associated. For example, a volume may
be attached to a server that is not known to Ops Center Administrator.
Details for protected volumes also include details of all replication groups to which the
volumes belong.
On a volume detail page, you can do the following:
■ Attach the volume to a server by clicking Attach Volumes.
■ Edit the volume configuration by clicking Update Volumes to open the Update Volume
window.
If a primary volume is unprotected, you can expand the capacity. When you click
Submit, a notification informs you that a job has started to expand the volume.
Secondary volumes cannot be expanded.
■ For a tiered volume, click Update Tiering Policy to access the Update Tiering Policy
page.
■ Delete the volume.

Note: If deduplication or compression has been enabled on the volume

and the volume has data, it cannot be deleted in Ops Center
Administrator. Access Storage Navigator to delete the volume.
■ Protect the volume by clicking Protect Volumes to open the Protect Volumes page.
■ Unprotect a volume by clicking Unprotect Volumes.

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 Update the tiering policy for a volume

■ Click Migrate Volumes to access the Migrate Volumes page.

■ Click Attach Like Volumes to create, attach, and protect volumes with local replication
or with High Availability.
■ Expand any or all replication groups to which the volume belongs and view details of
the volume pairs. In the table, you can click an S-Vol ID to open the detail page for the
secondary volume.
■ Restore a secondary volume to a primary volume by selecting the pair and clicking
Restore Volume Pair.
■ Perform the following operations on a replication group:
● Edit the replication group by clicking Edit.
● Suspend the replication group by clicking Suspend Replication Group.
● Resume the replication group by clicking Resume Replication Group.
● Delete the replication group by clicking Delete.

Note: Replication group operations are not available for "External"

replication groups. These are volume pairs that were created outside Ops
Center Administrator.

Update the tiering policy for a volume

You can choose a new tiering policy for a single volume.

Procedure
1. On the details page for a volume, click Update Tiering Policy.
2. On the Update Tiering Policy page, select a tier level from the list and click Submit.

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Chapter 4: Configure file storage
To configure file storage, begin by creating file pools and virtual file servers. You need
both to create file systems.
Then create file systems and use them to create shares and exports that you can use to
offer storage to users.

Managing file pools

Ops Center Administrator employs the following best practices in file pool creation:
■ For creation of the related block pool, use of RAID6 with a minimum of four parity
groups for SAS or one parity group for SSD, FMD, FMD DC2, SSD NVMe, or SSD(RI).

Note: This best practice is highly recommended. If capacity is chosen from

non-conforming parity groups during file pool creation, a warning displays.
■ Creation of a Thin pool that comprises each selected tier (either one or two).
■ Minimum disk requirements for file pool creation:
● 24 disks for SAS 10K, 15K
● 48 disks for SAS 7.2K
● 8 disks for FMD, FMD DC2, SSD, SSD NVMe, SSD(RI)
When a user creates a file pool in Ops Center Administrator, the system automatically
performs the following operations:
1. Identifies parity groups.
2. Creates a block pool.
3. Creates volumes and attaches them to NAS modules.
4. Configures volumes as system drives.
5. Creates a file pool.

File pool inventory

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 Creating file pools

Access the File Pools page from the detail page for a storage system.

Use this page to view file pool information in a tile or list view, and to delete or expand
existing pools, as well as to create new pools.
The colored bars display used capacity, physical capacity allocated for use on the
underlying block storage, and the file over-commit capacity. The over-commit capacity
reflects the amount by which the file pool is over-subscribed.
Each tile or list row shows whether the file pool is tiered, it's File Pool Label, and capacity
utilization.
The following actions are available:
■ Create a new file pool by clicking the plus (+) sign to open the Create File Pool page.
■ Delete one or more file pools by selecting them and clicking Delete.
■ Add capacity by selecting a file pool and clicking Expand to open the Expand File Pool
page.
■ Open the File Pool detail page for the file pool by clicking a File Pool Label.
■ Click a DP Pool [ID] link in a tile to open the detail page for the underlying block
storage pool.

Creating file pools

Create file pools to create file systems.

Before you begin

The minimum disk requirements are:
■ 24 disks for SAS 10K, 15K
■ 48 disks for SAS 7.2K
■ 8 disks for FMD, FMD DC2, SSD, FMD HDE, SSD NVMe, or SSD(RI)
You must also have a minimum number of parity groups. See the following table for a
summary of both disk and parity group requirements:

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Minimum number of parity

Tier Minimum number of disks groups

Platinum 8 1

Gold 24 4

Silver 24 4

Bronze 48 6

Both of these requirements need to be met in order to create a file pool using Ops
Center Administrator.
Examples of valid combinations:
■ 1 or more 6D+2P SSD parity groups (Platinum)
■ 2 or more 3D+1P SSD parity groups (Platinum)
■ 4 or more 6D+2P SAS 15k Parity Groups (Gold)
■ 4 or more 6D+2P SAS 10k parity groups (Silver)
■ 6 or more 6D+2P SAS 7.2k parity groups (Bronze)
Examples of unacceptable combinations:
■ 1 3D+1P SSD parity group (Platinum; meets only the 1 parity group requirement, not
the 8 disk requirement.)
■ 2 14D+2P SAS 10k parity groups (Silver; meets only the 24 disk requirement, not the 4
parity group requirement.)

Note: Ops Center Administrator only supports file pool creation from DP
volumes and not from basic volumes created outside Ops Center
Administrator.

Procedure
1. On the File Pools page, click the plus (+) sign to open the Create File Pool page.
2. Enter a label for the file pool.
3. In the Select Capacity for New File Pool pane, choose storage from one or two
tiers. For a tiered pool, select Platinum and one other tier.

Note: Best practices suggest that file over-commit capacity should be an

estimated 200%. Best practices also include using RAID 6, with a
minimum of four parity groups for SAS drives or one parity group for
SSD, FMD, FMD DC2, FMD HDE, SSD NVMe, or SSD(RI) drives. If another
RAID layout is selected, a warning displays.

The information gauge displays the total capacity, with the physical block capacity
and estimated over-commit capacity also detailed.

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 File pool details

The Estimated Max Potential: in IOPS displays after each type of capacity is
selected.
Table 3 Tier Definitions

Pool Tier Description

Platinum SSD, FMD, FMD DC2, FMD HDE, SSD

NVMe, SSD(RI)

Gold SAS 15 k

Silver SAS 10 k

Bronze SAS 7.2 k

4. (Optional) Adjust the Utilization Thresholds.

5. Click Submit.
A job is added to create the file pool.

File pool details

Access the File Pool details page by clicking a File Pool Label in the File Pools page.
Use this page to view details about a file pool and to manage file systems in the pool.
You can search for a specific file system by searching for its File System Label in the
search box. You can also use the Free Space and File Systems Size filters to find specific
file systems, or filter by virtual file server.
View file system information in either a tile view or a list view, including capacity
utilization and whether or not the file system is mounted.
Capacity utilization is represented by a color bar in each tile.
The following actions are available:
■ Delete the file pool by clicking Delete.
■ Expand the file pool by clicking Expand to open the Expand File Pool page.
■ View details of an underlying block pool by clicking an DP pool link in the file pool tile.
■ Add a file system by clicking the plus (+) sign to open the Create File System page.
■ Delete one or more file systems by selecting them and clicking Delete.
■ Edit a file system by selecting it and clicking Edit to open the Update File System page
where you can change the label or expand the file system.
■ Select a file system and mount or unmount it.

Expanding a file pool

File pool capacity may need to be expanded when the used capacity approaches the
capacity of the underlying block pool.

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 Managing virtual file servers

You can also relabel a file pool or change utilization thresholds.

To access the Expand File Pool page do one of the following:
■ In the File Pools page, select a file pool and click Expand.
■ In any file pool detail page, click Expand.

Procedure
1. To expand the file pool, select capacity from one of the tiers.
An untiered file pool cannot be expanded into a tiered file pool.
2. If you want to change the file pool label, enter it in the File Pool Label field.
3. If you want to change utilization thresholds, use the sliders.
4. Click Submit.
The job is added to the Jobs page.

Managing virtual file servers

Virtual file server inventory

Access the Virtual File Servers page from the dashboard or from the detail page for a
storage system.
Use this page to view information about virtual file servers in a tile or list view. Use the
filters to show only offline or online virtual file servers, or filter by blade number.
The following actions are available:
■ Open the Create Virtual File Server page by clicking the plus (+) sign.
■ Open the Virtual File Server detail page, where you can delete, edit, and enable or
disable the virtual file server by clicking the virtual file server label in any tile or list
row.
■ Open the storage system detail page by clicking the Storage System [ID] link in any tile
or list row.
■ Delete one or more virtual file servers by selecting them and clicking Delete.
■ Change the label for a virtual file server by selecting it and clicking Edit to access the
Update Virtual File Server page.
■ You can also Delete, Enable, or Disable by selecting a virtual file server and clicking
the applicable icon.

Creating a virtual file server

Create virtual file servers so you can create file systems.

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 Virtual file server details

Before you begin

■ Configure ports.
■ Obtain the required IP address and subnet mask information for the virtual file
server.

Procedure
1. On the Virtual File Servers page, click the plus sign (+) to open the Create Virtual
File Server page.
2. Enter a label for the virtual file server.
3. Enter the IP address (ipv4 or ipv6) for the virtual file server.
4. Enter the subnet mask for the virtual file server.
5. Select the cluster node Gigabit Ethernet port to which the IP address for the virtual
file server is assigned.
6. Click Submit.
A job is added on the Jobs page to create the virtual file server.

Virtual file server details

Access the Virtual File Server detail page from the Virtual File Servers page.
Use this page to manage a virtual file server's file systems.
The following actions are available:
■ Open the storage system detail page by clicking a Storage System [ID].
■ Select a file system in either the list or tile view and do one of the following:
● Delete the file system by clicking Delete.
● Expand a file system or change the label on the Update File System page by
clicking Edit.
● Click Mount or Unmount to mount or unmount the file system.
● Open the File System detail page by clicking a file system.
● Open the detail page for the underlying file pool by clicking the File Pool link in a
tile.

Managing file systems

File system inventory

Access the File Systems page from the detail page for a storage system. Use this page to
view information about file systems in a list or tile view, and to manage file systems.

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 Creating file systems

You can search for a specific file system by searching for its file system label in the search
box. You can also use the Free Space and File Systems Size filters to find specific file
systems, or filter by virtual file server.
View file system details in either a tile view or a list view, including capacity utilization and
whether or not the file system is mounted.
Capacity utilization is represented by a color bar in each tile.
The following actions are available:
■ View details of a file system by clicking the file system label in a tile or row to open the
File System detail page.
■ Add a file system by clicking the plus (+) sign to open the Create File System page.
■ Delete one or more file systems by selecting them and clicking Delete.
■ Edit a file system by selecting it and clicking Edit to open the Update File System page.
■ Select a file system and Mount or Unmount it.
■ View details of the underlying pool by clicking a File Pool label in a tile.
■ View details of the related virtual file server by clicking the VFS label in a tile.

Creating file systems

Create file systems so that you can create shares on Windows and exports on Linux.

Before you begin

Create file pools and virtual file servers.

Procedure
1. Click the plus sign (+) on the File Systems page to open the Create File System
page.
2. Select a virtual file server.
a. Enter a label up to 255 alphanumeric characters.
b. Select a format:
■ 4K: This choice is best for small block random applications (Virtual Server /
Virtual Desktops / Databases).
■ 32K: This choice is best for large block sequential applications (Video,
Media, Images) or when the file system is hosted on NL-SAS drives.

3. Enter capacity up to 1PiB.

4. Select a pool and click Submit.
A job is added to the Jobs page to create the file system.

File system details

Access the File System detail page from the File Systems page.

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Use this page to create and manage shares and exports. You can also view information
about a file system and access the associated file pool and virtual file server.
The following actions are available:
■ Delete the file system by clicking Delete.
■ Update label and capacity by clicking Edit to open the Update File System page.
■ Mount or Unmount the file system by clicking Mount or Unmount.
■ Access the file pool where the file system was created by clicking the File Pool [ID] link
in the tile.
■ Access the virtual file server where the file system was created by clicking the virtual
file server label in the tile.
■ Create a share or export by clicking the plus sign (+) to open the Create Shares/
Exports page.
■ Delete a share or export by selecting it and clicking Delete.
■ Update a share or export by selecting it and clicking Edit to open the Update Share or
Update Export page.

Updating a file system

Update a file system to re-label or expand it.

Procedure
1. On the File Systems page, select a file system and click Edit to open the Update
File System page.
2. You can change the file system label, the capacity, or both.
■ To edit the label, enter changes in the label field.
■ To change the capacity, enter it and select a new unit of measure, if necessary.

3. Click Submit.
The new job is added to the Jobs page.

Managing shares and exports

Shares enable file sharing in Windows and exports enable file sharing in Linux.

Shares and exports inventory

Access the inventory of shares and exports in the detail page for a storage system to
view information about existing shares and exports in a tile or list view.
Use this page to add, edit, and delete shares and exports. You can also access related
resources.

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The following actions are available:

■ To add a share or export, click the plus sign (+) to open the Create Shares/Exports
page.
■ To delete a share or export, select a tile and click Delete.
■ To edit a share or export, select a tile and click Edit to open the Update Export page or
the Update Share page.
■ Click File System label in a tile to open the detail page for the file system where the
share or export was created.
■ Click VFS label in a tile to open the Virtual File Server detail page where the file system
was created.

Creating shares and exports

Create shares and exports to offer storage capacity to users.

Procedure
1. Access the Create Shares/Exports page by clicking the plus sign (+) on the Shares/
Exports page.
2. Enter a File System Path and a Share/Export Label.
3. Select a File System.
4. Create a share by selecting Windows or create an export by selecting Linux.
5. Click Submit.
A job to create the share or export is added to the Jobs page.

Export details

Access the detail page for an export to review internal and external paths and to edit the
export.
The following controls are available:
■ Delete the export by clicking Delete.
■ Edit the export by clicking Edit to open the Update Export page.
■ Access the file system where the export was created by clicking File System.
■ Access the virtual file server where the file system was created by clicking VFS.

Updating an export

You can update an export to change the file system path and access configuration.

Procedure
1. Access the Update Export page by clicking Edit in an Export detail page.
2. (Optional) Enter a new path in the File System Path field.

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 Share details

3. (Optional) In the Access Configuration field, enter IP addresses, host names, or the
NIS netgroups of the clients who are allowed to access the NFS export (up to 5957
characters).
If the system has been set up to work with a name server, you can enter the NIS
netgroup to which the clients belong, or the client's computer name rather than its
IP address (not case sensitive).
You can also specify the required flavors of NFS security in a colon-separated list
using the option (sec=<list>).
The supported flavors are:
■ none - Connect as a null user
■ sys - The traditional security flavor used by NFS, users are not authenticated by
the server
■ krb5 - Kerberos authentication
■ krb5i - Kerberos authentication with per-messaging integrity
■ krb5p - Kerberos authentication with per-message privacy
For example: 10.1.*.*(sec=sys:krb5:krb5i)
See the mount-point-access-configuration man page for further information.

4. Click Submit to save any changes.

A job is added to the Jobs page to update the export.

Share details

Access the detail page for an share to review internal and external paths and to edit the
export.
The following controls are available:
■ Delete the share by clicking Delete.
■ Edit the share clicking Edit to open the Update Share page.
■ Access the file system where the export was created by clicking the File System label.
■ Access the virtual file server where the file system was created by clicking the VFS
label.
■ Add an existing Account Domain user group to the share by clicking the plus sign (+)
to open the Create Groups page.

Adding existing account domain groups to a share

You can add an existing account domain group to a share. This enables you to change
users permissions when they access the share.

Before you begin

The account domain group and CIFS setup must already exist.

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Procedure
1. On the detail page for a share, click the plus sign (+) to open the Create Groups
page.
2. In the Group Name field, type in a user group name from the account domain.
3. Choose permissions; Full Control, Change, or Read.
4. Click Submit.
A job is started to add the group to the share.

Updating a share

You can update a share to change the file system path, permissions, and access
configuration.

Procedure
1. Access the Update Share page by clicking Edit in a Share detail page.
2. (Optional) Enter a new path in the Modify File System Path field.
3. (Optional) In the Access Configuration field, enter IP addresses of the clients who
can access the share (up to 5,957 characters allowed in this field).

What to type Means Example

Blank or * Partial All clients can access the 10.168.*.* Clients with
addresses using share. matching addresses can
wildcards. access the share.

Specific addresses Only clients with the 10.168.20.2

specified IP address can
access the share.

Specific address range Only clients with an IP 10.168.20.0/16

address within the
specified IP address
range (10.168.20.0 to
10.168.20.255) can access
the share.

Partial addresses using Clients with matching 10.168.*.*

wildcards addresses can access the
share.

Permisssions

What to type Permissions granted

(rw) read-write

(ro) read only

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Note: The order in which you specify the entries is important. Take the
following two lines:
■ *(ro)
■ 10.1.2.38(rw)
The first grants read-only access to all clients, whereas the second grants
read/write access to the specified client. The second line is redundant,
however, as the first line matches all clients. You must transpose the
lines to grant write access to 10.1.2.38. Examples:
■ 10.1.2.38(ro) grants read-only access to the client whose IP address is
10.1.2.38.
■ 10.1.2.0/24(ro) grants read-only access to all clients with an IP address
in the range 10.1.2.0 to 10.1.2.255
■ 10.1.*.*(rw) grants read-write access to all the matching clients.

4. (Optional) Select the supplied Everyone group and select permissions.

5. Click Submit to save any changes.
A job is added to the Jobs page to update the share.

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Chapter 5: Data protection
Data protection refers to replication of volumes. Ops Center Administrator provides local
and remote replication options.

Data protection concepts

You can protect volumes with local replication or with remote replication.
■ Local replication:
You can protect volumes locally on the same storage system and choose to protect a
single volume, a group of volumes, or all volumes attached to a server.
● The Clone Now method creates a copy of a volume in a point in time. This method
creates a full copy of a primary volume and automatically suspends the copy
operation. Any further read-write operations of the primary volume will not be
updated to the secondary volumes.
● The Snap method takes incremental snapshots of volumes based on a user-
created schedule. The retention policy (maximum number of snapshots) is from 1
to 1024, based on user input. Once the retention policy is exceeded, the oldest
snapshots are deleted when newer snapshots are created.

Note: When a user removes a storage system and adds it again, all the
protected volumes using Clone Now will remain untouched, but any
snapshot schedules will be suspended. The user will need to resume
scheduling after adding the storage system.
● Snap on Snap is a snapshot that can support a cascaded configuration. They can
be created inside or outside Ops Center Administrator. If they are created outside
Ops Center Administrator, you cannot perform operations on the replication
group, which is labeled "External".

Note: The cascaded configuration is not supported within Ops Center

Administrator.
● Snap Clone is a full copy of a snapshot (P-VOL) and creates a real volume.

Note: You cannot create Snap Clone pairs using Ops Center
Administrator.
■ Remote replication: Use global-active device to help ensure reliability.

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Selecting volumes to protect

You can select a server, create volumes and attach them to the server, and then
(optionally) protect the volumes.
As an alternative, you can create volumes separately and attach them to servers at a
later time. After attaching volumes to servers, you can select volumes to protect.

Procedure
1. To select volumes to protect, do one of the following:
■ Select a server, create volumes for the server and attach the volumes to the
server.
■ Select a server to view volumes already attached to the server. You can filter for
unprotected volumes.
■ On the dashboard, click Storage Systems, then click a storage system tile and
click Volumes to open the Volumes page.
■ Open the detail page for any volume that is attached to a server.

2. Select volumes and then click Protect Volumes and select Protect Volumes with
Local Replication or Protect Volumes with High Availability.
3. For local replication, choose a type of data replication, Clone Now or Snap.

Note: The Clone Now method is available for volumes that are already
existing and attached to a server. It is not available when the create-and-
attach workflow is used to create, attach, and protect volumes in a single
page.

If you use the workflow provided to create, attach, and protect volumes, you can
choose None as a data replication type to avoid protecting volumes.

Protect volumes with local replication

Protecting volumes by cloning

After creating and attaching volumes, you can implement data protection by creating a
clone
The Clone Now method can be useful if maintenance or testing of a volume is needed.
You can clonethe primary volume and perform testing when the clone is complete. If any
data is lost, you can retrieve it from the secondary volume.
You can create up to three clones for a volume. Using Ops Center Administrator, you can
do this performing the cloning operation on a set of volumes three times.

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Note: The Clone Now method is available for volumes that exist and are
attached to a server. It is not available when the create-and-attach workflow
is used to create, attach, and protect volumes in a single page.

Procedure
1. In the Protect Volumes page, select the volumes you want to protect and click
Clone Now.
2. Choose whether to use Consistency.
Using Consistency means that copy operations will run on all pairs in the group
simultaneously. Consistency, schedule and retention policy are all filters for
replication groups, so your choices may affect the availability of replication groups.
3. Select a replication group from the options in the Replication Group Name list or
enter a new name.
Up to 26 alphanumeric characters, and also hyphens (-) and underscores (_), are
allowed. Spaces are not allowed.
4. Click Submit to clone the volumes.

Result
A job is created and a summary message displays.

Protecting volumes by creating snapshots

After creating and attaching volumes, you can implement data protection by creating
incremental snapshots.
You can use the Snapshot method if you don't need continuous copying but want to
schedule the copy depending on expected changes in the data.

Note: For volumes on the following storage systems, you can create
snapshots by accessing Storage Advisor Embedded: VSP F350, F370, F700,
F900 and VSP G350, G370, G700, G900.

The snapshot creation process creates the secondary volume on a snap pool. If there is
more than one snap pool, the least-utilized snap pool is used.

Note: If you want to create snapshots outside of Ops Center Administrator

for a volume that is in Ops Center Administrator, use a new snapshot group.

Procedure
1. In the Protect Volumes page, select the volumes you want to protect and click
Snapshot.
2. Enter a number from 1 to 1024 in the Snapshot Retention Policy (Max 1024) field
to specify the number of snapshots to be created.
When the specified number of snapshots is reached, older snapshots will be
deleted as new ones are added. The maximum number of snapshots that can be
retained is 1024.

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3. You can enable Consistency to perform data protection on all pairs in the group
simultaneously.
Consistency acts a filter for replication groups, so your choice may affect the
availability of replication groups.
4. Set an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly schedule. A volume cannot have more than
one schedule. The schedule is based on UTC time.
■ Hourly: Select a start time in minutes after the hour, and the number of hours
between snapshots to start creating snapshots at the selected time and interval.
■ Daily: Select a start time, available in five minutes increments, to start a
snapshot every day at the selected time.
■ Weekly: Select a start time and a day to create a snapshot every week at the
selected date and time. You can select more than one day to create more than
one weekly snapshot.
■ Monthly: Select a start time and the day of the month (from 1 to 31) to create a
snapshot once a month at the selected day and time.

5. In Volumes to be Protected, select a Replication Group for each volume or select

Use New and enter a name for the new replication group in the Replication Group
Name. Up to 26 alphanumeric characters, also hyphens (-) and underscores (_), are
allowed. Spaces are not allowed.
6. (Optional) Select the pool from the list of available pools. The default selection is
Auto Selected, which means that Ops Center Administrator selects the best pool
based on utilization and tier requirements.
If you choose a Thin (DP) pool or a Snap (HTI) pool, the replication technology used
will be Snap on Snap, unless there is already a Snap volume created in an earlier
version of Ops Center Administrator. In that case, the replication technology used
will continue to be Snap.
7. Click Submit.

Result
A summary message is displayed and snapshots are created according to the schedule.
The replication group can be viewed on the Replication Groups page.

Protect existing volumes with high availability

You can protect existing volumes with high availability.

Before you begin

■ Register Data Instance Director in Ops Center Administrator.
■ Set up your environment for high availability.

Procedure
1. Access the Volumes page and select one or more attached volumes. They cannot
belong to different VSMs. Select Protect Volumes with High Availability.

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2. The Host Mode is set by default to the server operating system. You can make a
selection if needed.
The server OS Type is provided when the server is added to Ops Center
Administrator.
3. The prepopulated Host Mode Option will depend on the Host Mode selection. The
default Host Mode Option can be changed manually.
Default values are set only for VMWARE EX and WIN EX host modes. The default for
all other Host Modes is none.
Ops Center Administrator identifies all host groups containing any of the server
WWNs. If all of those host groups have the same host mode and host mode options,
those settings are prepopulated with the same settings in the host groups.
4. Select the LUN Alignment.
By default, Ops Center Administrator uses the LUN number that is common to the
servers. If attachment is to only one server, this setting has no effect.
5. The Auto Create Zone is set to No by default. You can set it to Yes to automatically
create zones.
6. ALUA Enabled is set to Yes. If it is set to No, you must rediscover volume or restart
the OS after job completion.
7. Click Next to select secondary servers, if applicable.
8. Click Next to choose a secondary storage system and replication group, and
quorum disk.

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9. In the Protect Volumes panel, select a secondary storage system.

10. Choose whether to use an existing replication group.
11. Consistency is set to Yes and cannot be edited. Using consistency means that copy
operations will run on all pairs in the group simultaneously.
12. Select a replication group from the options in the Replication Group list or enter a
new name. Up to 26 alphanumeric characters, and also hyphens (-) and
underscores (_), are allowed. Spaces are not allowed. If you select an existing
replication group, the Storage Pool of Secondary Storage System for S-Vol and
Quorum Disk are selected automatically.
13. Select the pool to use for S-Vols and select a quorum disk.
14. Click Next to configure the primary site.
15. In the Configure Primary Site panel, you can view the path of the primary server. If
you need to change it, you will need to edit the LUN path before applying data
protection.

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For storage systems in the VSP 5000 series, you can click a port to display a list of
ports with their DKC locations, CTL locations, and redundancy levels.

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16. Click Next to configure ports in the secondary storage system to the server in the
primary site, and to the server is the secondary site, if there is one.
17. Click Submit to create a job to protect volumes.
18. You can monitor the job in the Jobs page.

Note: If the job does not complete successfully, access Data Instance Director to
remove the related resources (Block Host Node, Policy, and Data Flow) with the
same name as the selected replication group. When using an existing replication
group, remove added P-Vol from Block Host Node.
To edit a Block Host Node created by Ops Center Administrator in Data Instance
Director, specify LDEV IDs in decimal format per line and not in hex format or range
format.

Viewing replication groups

Ops Center Administrator enables you to view all replication groups in a single page.
You can also access replication details for a volume to view and manage all replication
group membership and volume pairs.
Ops Center Administrator detects and displays all volume pairs, whether or not they
were created in Ops Center Administrator.

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 Replication groups inventory

Replication groups apply the policies that control how volumes are replicated. Their
parameters include:
■ Type of technology:
● High Availability for remote replication.
● For local replication:
■ Snap on Snap
■ Snap Clone
■ Snap
■ Clone
■ Whether consistency is used
■ Snapshot schedule
■ Snapshot retention
Replication groups are created when volumes are replicated.

Replication groups inventory

Access the inventory of replication groups from the detail page for a storage system.

This page enables you to view all replication groups, sorted by technology:
■ Snap on Snap
■ Snap Clone
■ Snap
■ Clone
Replication groups created outside Ops Center Administrator are listed as External.

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 Replication groups inventory

You can view all volume pairs, including those created outside of Ops Center
Administrator.

Note: Replication group operations other than Restore are not available for
External replication groups. If a copy group is renamed outside Ops Center
Administrator, the replication group will become External. Copy groups
cannot be renamed using Ops Center Administrator.

Use this page to:

■ View replication policies applicable to a volume and all S-VOL details.
■ View all replication policies and all volume pair details.
■ Suspend or resume a snapshot schedule.
Data replication can be suspended and resumed. Data will be missing for the period
of suspension.
■ Suspend or resume a clone.
Data replication can be resumed to update cloned data and then suspended to keep
a point-in-time full copy.
■ Remove a volume from a replication policy. Delete a replication group to remove the
policy from all volumes in the group.
■ Restore a volume pair by restoring a secondary volume to a primary volume.
The following actions are available after selecting a replication group:
■ Edit the replication group by clicking Edit to open the Edit Replication Group page and
edit the label or remove volumes from the replication group.
■ Suspend the replication group by clicking Suspend Replication Group. You cannot
suspend a replication group that is in COPY status.
■ Resume the replication group by clicking Resume Replication Group.
■ Delete the replication group by clicking Delete.
To view volume pair details, expand one or more replication groups.
■ Access detail pages for each P-VOL and each S-VOL by clicking a P-VOL ID or an S-VOL
ID in the expanded view of a replication group.
■ Before using the Restore function, stop all I/O activity to the volume. To restore a
volume pair, select it and click Restore Volume Pair.

WARNING: The Restore function will overwrite the volume with backup
data. The data on current volume will be destroyed.

Opening the Local Replication page in Storage Navigator

Click Open the Local Replication page in Storage Navigator to view the replication groups
information for clones and snapshots.
For more information, refer to the Storage Navigator online help.

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 Editing replication groups

Note: Any changes you make in Storage Navigator may not be reflected in
Ops Center Administrator for a few minutes.

Editing replication groups

You can edit a replication group to adjust the schedule for snapshots or to remove
volumes from the replication group.

Note: External replication groups cannot be edited. These include volume

pairs that are created outside Ops Center Administrator.

Procedure
1. Access the Edit Replication Group page from the Replication Groups page.
2. You can edit the following:
■ Name
■ Comments
■ For snapshots, the schedule and number of snapshots. The schedule is based on
UTC time.
■ (Optional) Select the pool from the list of available pools. The default selection is
Auto Selected, which means that Ops Center Administrator selects the best pool
based on utilization and tier requirements.

3. To remove a primary volume from the replication group, select the corresponding
row. You can choose whether or not to remove the corresponding secondary
volume.
4. Click Submit.
A job is added to the Jobs page to apply the changes to the replication group.

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Chapter 6: Setting up high availability
You can use Ops Center Administrator to set up your environment for high availability.

Configure remote paths

Follow the instructions below to configure remote paths between the primary and
secondary storage systems that make up a high availability environment. Because a
remote path is required to send data to the connection-destination storage system, you
need to configure remote paths for both storage systems so they can send data to each
other.

Configuring remote paths for VSP Gx00 models, VSP G1x00 models,
VSP Fx00 models, VSP F1500, and VSP 5000 series
Use Storage Navigator to configure remote paths between the primary and secondary
storage systems.

Before you begin

■ Storage Administrator (Remote Copy) role is required.
■ Physical paths are set between the primary and secondary storage systems.
■ The port attributes of local and remote storage systems are defined for high
availability.
■ You know the remote storage system model, serial number, and path group ID.

Procedure
1. Navigate to the Storage Systems page click Settings and then click High
Availability Setup.
2. On the High Availability Setup page, select the primary and secondary storage
systems and click Proceed.
3. Click Remote Paths to expand the panel and then click Launch for Primary
Storage or Launch for Secondary Storage to open the Remote Connections page
in Device Manager - Storage Navigator.

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 Configure remote paths for VSP G/F350, G/F370, G/F700, G/F900 models

4. Click Add Remote Connection to open the Add Remote Connection window.
■ Model: Select the remote storage system model.
Select 7 for VSP F1500 and, 18 for VSP Fx00 models and VSP Gx00 models.
■ Serial Number: Enter the five or six digit serial number for the remote storage
system.

5. Set the items in Remote Paths.

■ Path Group ID: Select the ID for the path group.
■ Minimum Number of Paths: Specify the minimum number or paths that are
required for each remote storage systems that are connected to the current local
storage system. When the number of normal paths become fewer than the value
specified in Minimum Number of Paths, the local storage system suspends all
GAD pairs that will be affected, and prevents the server performance from being
harmed due to insufficient number of paths.
■ For Select Type, select the port type. Then select the port to be used for both
the local storage system and the remote storage system. These are the ports by
which the storage systems are already physically connected. To add more paths,
click Add Path. You can also add and delete paths later as needed using the Add
Remote Paths window.

6. (Optional) Enter the RIO MIH Time.

You can enter a value between 10 and 100. The default setting is 15.
The RIO MIH (Remote I/O Missing Interrupt Handler) is the waiting time from when
copy starts until when it ends. This value applies to the slots which received the
request of copying data between storage systems.

7. (Optional) Enter Round Trip Time in milliseconds, if necessary.

The round trip time is a time limit for data to travel from the P-VOL to the S-VOL.
This value is the reference value to control the copy pace of the initial copy
automatically when the initial copy is performed, and to lessen the impact to the
response time of the remote I/O for the update I/O.

8. Click Finish.
9. In the Confirm window, check the settings you made, and then enter the task name
in Task Name.
10. Click Apply.
The task is registered. The Tasks window appears if the Go to tasks window for
status check box is selected.

11. On the Tasks & Alerts tab, you can click the task name to view progress and other
details.

Configure remote paths for VSP G/F350, G/F370, G/F700, G/F900

models
Use Storage Advisor Embedded to configure remote paths between the primary and
secondary storage systems.

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 Configure the quorum disk

Before you begin

■ Connect physical paths between the two storage systems that make up the global-
active device environment.
■ Identify the following items:
● The model and serial number of the connection-destination storage system
● The ID of the path group
● The port to be used on the connection-source storage system and the port of the
connection-destination storage system

Procedure
1. In the High Availability Setup page, open the Remote Paths menu and click
Launch for Primary Storage or Launch for Secondary Storage to open the
Create Remote Path Group page in Storage Advisor Embedded.
2. In the navigation bar, click Others > Remote Path Groups.
3. Click the plus sign (+).

4. Specify the required items, and then configure the remote path.
5. Click the ID of the path group to open the details page. Make sure that the status of
the remote path you configured is Normal.

Configure the quorum disk

Configure the quorum disk for your virtual storage platform.

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 Configuring the quorum disk for VSP Gx00 models, VSP G1x00 models, VSP Fx00 models, VSP F1500, and
VSP 5000 series

Configuring the quorum disk for VSP Gx00 models, VSP G1x00
models, VSP Fx00 models, VSP F1500, and VSP 5000 series
Configure the quorum disk for your virtual storage platform.

Discover and add external volumes

Discover and add external volumes for your virtual storage platform.

Procedure
1. In the High Availability Setup page, expand the Manage Quorum Disks menu and
click Launch for Primary Storage or Launch for Secondary Storage to open the
External Storage page in Device Manager - Storage Navigator.
2. In the External Storage Systems panel click Add External Volumes.
3. In the Add External Volumes window, click Create External Path Group and enter
an Initial External Path Group ID. Click Discover External Target Ports.
4. Select an External Storage System and then click Discover External Target Ports.
5. Select the ports you want to scan and click Add to move them to Selected External
Ports.
6. Click OK and then Next.
If there are no external volumes discovered, you can add one to the host group.
7. In the Add External Volumes window click Next.
8. Enter an LDEV name and then select the volumes you want to use in Discovered
External Volumes.
9. Click Finish and then Apply.

Adding the quorum disk

Add the quorum disk on the primary and secondary storage systems.

Before you begin

■ Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required.
■ The mapping of volumes of the external storage system for the quorum disk has been
completed.

Procedure
1. Click Add Quorum Disks to open the Add Quorum Disks window.
2. Select a Quorum Disk ID.
3. In the Available LDEVs table, select the volume you want to set to the quorum disk.
4. Select a Remote Storage System.
5. Click Add. To remove the selected quorum disks from the Selected Quorum Disks
table, select the quorum disk, and then click Remove.
6. Click Finish.

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7. In the Confirm window, check the settings you made, and then enter the task name
in Task Name.
8. Click Apply. The task is registered. The Tasks window appears if the Go to tasks
window for status check box is selected.

Configuring the quorum disk for VSP G/F350, G/F370, G/F700, G/F900
models
You can use Storage Advisor Embedded to create an external volume to configure a
quorum disk, or to configure a quorum disk by using an external volume that has already
been created.

Configuring a quorum disk by creating an external volume

Create an external volume in the two storage systems that make up the global-active
device environment, and specify settings to use the external volume as a quorum disk.

Before you begin

■ Ensure that the two storage systems that make up the global-active device
environment and the external storage system in which the volume used as the
quorum disk is configured are connected by physical paths.
■ Ensure that the volume used as the quorum disk is assigned a port on each of the two
storage systems that make up the global-active device environment.
■ Identify the following items required to configure the external volume:
● The port to be used for external connection
● The model and serial number of the external storage system
● The port information for the external storage system that is connected with a port
for external connections:
■ When using Fibre Channel for the protocol you can specify WWN
● The LUN of the volume used as the quorum disk
If you use a volume whose size exceeds 4 TiB, the size of the external volume that
is created will be 4 TiB.
● The name of the external volume
● The ID of the external parity group
● The ID of the external path group
■ Identify the following information required to configure the quorum disk:
● The ID of the quorum disk
● The models and serial numbers of the paired storage system that shares the
quorum disk

Procedure
1. In the navigation bar, click Others > External Volumes.

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2. Click the plus sign (+).

3. Select the port for external connection, and then click Next.
4. Select the external path to be used, and then click Next.
5. Select the LUN of the volume used as the quorum disk, and specify the name of the
external volume, the ID of the external parity group, and the ID of the external path
group. Click Submit.
Information about the newly configured external volume is displayed in the list of
external volumes.

6. Click (Configure Quorum Disk Setting) for the external volume for which the
quorum disk is to be configured.

7. Specify the required items, and then click Submit.

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 Configuring a quorum disk by selecting an external volume

Configuring a quorum disk by selecting an external volume

Configure a quorum disk by using an existing external volume.

Before you begin

■ Identify the following information required to configure the quorum disk:
● The ID of the quorum disk
● The models and serial numbers of the paired storage system that shares the
quorum disk
● The external volume name

Procedure
1. In the navigation bar, click Others > Quorum Disks.
2. Click the plus sign (+).

3. Specify the required items.

To specify the external volume to be used, select With External Volume, and then
click Next.

4. Select the external volume to be used, and then click Submit.

Configuring a quorum disk without using an external volume

If you want to temporarily configure a global-active device environment for such
purposes as system migration, you can configure a quorum disk without using an
external volume.

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 Managing virtual storage machines for high availability

Before you begin

■ Identify the following information required to configure the quorum disk:
● The ID of the quorum disk
● The models and serial numbers of the paired storage system that shares the
quorum disk

Procedure
1. In the navigation bar, click Others > Quorum Disks.
2. Click the plus sign (+).

3. Specify the required items.

To configure a quorum disk without using an external volume, select Without
External Volume, and then click Submit.

Managing virtual storage machines for high availability

You can manage virtual storage machines for high availability in Ops Center
Administrator.
To manage VSMs for high availability setup, click Go to VSM Inventory in the High
Availability Setup page.
You can either create a new VSM, or use an existing one. The VSM must contain the
primary and secondary storage systems.

Creating virtual storage machines

You can use Ops Center Administrator to create virtual storage machines.
Each virtual storage machine must have a model number and a serial number. After
assigning those, you can add volumes and host groups.

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 Creating virtual storage machines

Procedure
1. On the dashboard, click Virtual Storage Machines and then click the plus sign (+)
on the Virtual storage machines page.

2. On the Create VSM page, select the storage systems you want to use.
3. Choose whether to use the model and serial number of one of the selected storage
systems for the new virtual storage machine.
■ If you choose YES, the entire meta_resource group of the storage system will be
the virtual storage machine.
■ Click NO to select a virtual model and a virtual serial number.

Note: If a resource group already exists, it will be used and a new one
will not be created.

4. Click Next to add volumes to the virtual storage machine.

You can add volumes from any or all selected storage systems, or skip this and the
next step and add volumes later.

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5. For each storage system you selected, specify undefined volumes you want to add
by choosing one of the following from the Specify Volumes By drop down:
■ Select Number of Volumes and enter a number in the Number of Volumes
field below.
■ Select Number of volumes and volume ID range and enter the Number of
Volumes and Volume ID/Range in the fields below.
■ Select Volume ID range (add all volumes within the range) and enter the
Volume ID/Range in the field below.

6. Click Next to add host groups. Add host groups from one storage system at a time
and click the plus sign (+) to add them to the list.
7. Click Submit to create a job to add the virtual storage machine.

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Chapter 7: Manage virtual storage machines
Ops Center Administrator allows you to create virtual storage machines and add
volumes and host groups to them.
You can also add defined and undefined resources to an existing virtual storage machine
and remove defined and undefined resources from an existing virtual storage machine.

Virtual storage machine inventory

Access the Virtual Storage Machines page to view all virtual storage machines and
perform operations on them.
Click Virtual Storage Machines on the dashboard to open the Virtual Storage
Machines page.

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 Creating virtual storage machines

The following actions are available on this page:

■ Select one or more virtual storage machines and click Delete to permanently remove
them.
All resources will be removed from the virtual storage machine and the virtual storage
machine will be deleted. Removed resources will be moved to the meta resource
group. A virtual storage machine with attached volumes or GAD pairs cannot be
deleted.
■ Select a virtual storage machine and click Remove VSM to remove undefined
resources from the virtual storage machine.
■ Select a virtual storage machine and click Add VSM to open the menu and do one of
the following:
● Click Move Volumes to a VSM to open the Move Volumes to a VSM page and
move volumes from a storage system to a virtual storage machine.
● Click Add Resources to a VSM to open the Add Undefined Resources to VSM
page and add resources from one or more storage systems to a virtual storage
machine.

Creating virtual storage machines

You can use Ops Center Administrator to create virtual storage machines.
Each virtual storage machine must have a model number and a serial number. After
assigning those, you can add volumes and host groups.

Procedure
1. On the dashboard, click Virtual Storage Machines and then click the plus sign (+)
on the Virtual storage machines page.

2. On the Create VSM page, select the storage systems you want to use.

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 Remove undefined resources from a virtual storage machine

3. Choose whether to use the model and serial number of one of the selected storage
systems for the new virtual storage machine.
■ If you choose YES, the entire meta_resource group of the storage system will be
the virtual storage machine.
■ Click NO to select a virtual model and a virtual serial number.

Note: If a resource group already exists, it will be used and a new one
will not be created.

4. Click Next to add volumes to the virtual storage machine.

You can add volumes from any or all selected storage systems, or skip this and the
next step and add volumes later.

5. For each storage system you selected, specify undefined volumes you want to add
by choosing one of the following from the Specify Volumes By drop down:
■ Select Number of Volumes and enter a number in the Number of Volumes
field below.
■ Select Number of volumes and volume ID range and enter the Number of
Volumes and Volume ID/Range in the fields below.
■ Select Volume ID range (add all volumes within the range) and enter the
Volume ID/Range in the field below.

6. Click Next to add host groups. Add host groups from one storage system at a time
and click the plus sign (+) to add them to the list.
7. Click Submit to create a job to add the virtual storage machine.

Remove undefined resources from a virtual storage machine

You can remove undefined resources if you no longer need them.

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 Move volumes to a virtual storage machine

Procedure
1. On the Virtual Storage Machines page, select a virtual storage machine and click
Remove VSM.

2. On the Remove Undefined Resources from VSM page, select a storage system
from the menu.
3. For each storage system you selected, specify undefined volumes you want to
remove by choosing one of the following from the Specify Volumes By drop down:
■ Select Number of Volumes and enter a number in the Number of Volumes
field below.
■ Select Number of volumes and volume ID range and enter the Number of
Volumes and Volume ID/Range in the fields below.
■ Select Volume ID range (remove all volumes within the range) and enter the
Volume ID/Range in the field below.

4. Click the plus sign (+) to display your selections in the lower half of the page. Add
more selections if needed.
5. Click Next.
6. Remove host groups using the procedure as for volumes.
7. Click Submit to start a job to remove the undefined resources.

Move volumes to a virtual storage machine

You can move defined volumes from a storage system that is in a virtual storage
machine to the virtual storage machine.

Procedure
1. To access the Move Volumes to a VSM page, select a virtual storage machine on
the Virtual Storage Machines page.

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 Add undefined resources to a virtual storage machine

2. Select Add VSM and click Move Volumes to VSM in the menu.
3. Select a storage system in the Storage System menu to display the available
volumes.
4. Select volumes to be moved and click Submit to start a job to move the volumes.

Add undefined resources to a virtual storage machine

You can add additional resources to a virtual storage machine.

Procedure
1. To access the Add Undefined Resources to VSM page, select a virtual storage
machine on the Virtual Storage Machines page.
2. Select Add VSM and click Add Resources to a VSM in the menu.

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 Virtual storage machine details

3. Optionally, select one or more storage systems and click Next to add volumes.
4. For each storage system you selected, specify undefined volumes you want to add
by choosing one of the following from the Specify Volumes By drop down:
■ Select Number of Volumes and enter a number in the Number of Volumes
field below.
■ Select Number of volumes and volume ID range and enter the Number of
Volumes and Volume ID/Range in the fields below.
■ Select Volume ID range (add all volumes within the range) and enter the
Volume ID/Range in the field below.

5. Click the plus sign (+) to add your selections to the lower panel. When you are
finished adding selections, click Next to add host groups.
At least one undefined volume must remain in each storage system.
6. Add host groups for each required storage system and port combination. Click the
plus sign (+) to add the selection to the lower panel.
7. When all selections are complete, click Submit to start a job to add the undefined
resources.

Virtual storage machine details

Review the details for a single virtual storage machine.
Access the Virtual Storage Machine detail page from the Virtual Storage Machines
inventory.

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 Physical storage system details

The following actions are available:

■ Select one or more storage systems and click Delete to remove it from the virtual
storage machine.
■ Click Open GAD Pairs to view the global-active device pairs on this virtual storage
machine.
■ Click a storage system in the list or tile view to view details of volumes and hosts
groups in this virtual storage machine in the Physical Storage System page.
■ Click Go to Storage System Details to view all resources and storage system
information.

Physical storage system details

Perform a variety of operations on the volumes belonging to a storage system that is in a
virtual storage machine.
In the Virtual Storage Machine detail page, click a storage system ID to open the
Physical Storage System page.

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 Physical storage system details

The following actions are available on this page:

■ Under Volumes click View more details to open the Registered Volumes page and view
a list of volumes which are assigned to the virtual storage machine.
■ Under Host Group click View more details to open the Physical Storage System Host
Group page and view details of ports in the host group.
■ Click the plus sign (+) to add volumes on the Create Volumes page.
■ Click a volume to view details and attach, update or delete the volume.
■ Select a volume and click Edit to update the volume by editing the name or updating
the Capacity Saving setting. If the volume is unprotected you can also expand the
capacity.
■ Select one or more volumes to perform one of the following actions:
● To delete volumes, click Delete. When you delete a volume, it is de-provisioned
and removed from the storage system.

Note: If deduplication or compression has been enabled on the volume

and the volume has data, it cannot be deleted in Ops Center
Administrator. Access Storage Navigator to delete the volume.
● To attach existing volumes to one or more servers on the Attach Volumes page,
click Attach Volumes.
● To detach volumes from servers, click Detach Volume.
● To apply data protection on the Protect Volumes page, click Protect Volumes.
● To unprotect a volume, select it and click Unprotect Volumes.

Note: A volume in an "External" replication group cannot be

unprotected.
● To restore a secondary volume to the primary volume, click Restore to open the
Restore Volume page.
● To attach the volume to a storage system to prepare for volume migration, click
Attach to Storage.
● To migrate volumes, click Migrate Volumes.
● To detach volumes from target storage, click Detach From Target Storage.
● To shred volumes that have been migrated, click Shred Volumes.
● To remove defined volumes from a virtual storage machine, click Remove
Volumes.

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Chapter 8: Provisioning for high availability
You can use Ops Center Administrator to provision P-Vols and S-Vols and create high
availability pairs. High availability is supported by global-active device technology.
To set up high availability, configure a virtual storage machine (VSM) in a secondary
storage system, and optionally, in a primary storage system. A virtual storage machine
can be configured using the actual information of the primary storage system, and the
global-active device primary and secondary volumes are assigned the same virtual LDEV
number in the virtual storage machine. This enables the server to see the pair volumes
as a single volume on a single storage system, and both volumes receive the same data
from the server. Alternatively, you can use virtual model and virtual serial numbers.

Prerequisites to provisioning for high availability

Review the conditions required to provision for high availability.

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 Register Data Instance Director in Ops Center Administrator

Make sure that the following conditions are met before provisioning for high availability:
■ Data Instance Director v6.6.1 or later is registered in Ops Center Administrator.
■ The registered Ops Center Administrator satisfies the following conditions:
● Both primary and secondary storage systems are registered with Data Instance
Director.
● Global-active device licenses for both primary and secondary storage systems are
installed in Data Instance Director.
■ At least one Fibre Channel server must be registered.
■ The primary and secondary storage systems must have the following configured:
● Remote paths , which should be configured bidirectionally.
● A quorum disk. (The same disk and ID should be assigned in each storage system.)
● ■ If the VSM in the primary storage system is using the meta_resource, a VSM
with at least one undefined host group must be configured in Ops Center
Administratorfor the secondary storage system.
■ If the VSM in the primary storage system is not using the meta_resource, a VSM
with at least one undefined volume and one undefined host group must be
configured for the primary storage system and, a VSM with at least one
undefined host group must be configured for the secondary storage system in
Ops Center Administrator.

● Make sure that both primary and secondary storage systems:

■ Are onboarded in Ops Center Administrator.
■ Have at least one Fibre port.
■ Have global-active device licenses.
■ Firmware version 80-06-6x or later is required for VSP G1000VSP G1500,VSP
F1500 models.
■ Firmware version 83-04-01-x0 or later is required for VSP G200, G400, G600,
G800and VSP F400, F600, F800 models.
■ Have enough room to create volumes and remote pairs including CTG.
■ Have a DP or DT pool with enough capacity.

Note: If there are any block storage nodes added before HDID 6.5, re-edit the
block storage node in HDID master UI to use it for high availability.

Register Data Instance Director in Ops Center Administrator

You can use Ops Center Administrator to register Data Instance Director settings.

Before you begin

■ Data Instance Director must be installed.
■ The user with permissions to perform pair management operations is identified.

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Procedure
1. From the Settings menu, click Data Instance Director Settings.
2. Under Connection Information, enter the IP address of the Master node. The port
number of the Master node displays automatically.
3. Under Account Information, enter the user name and password of the Data
Instance Director user who can perform pair management operations for high
availability.
4. Click Test Connection to verify that you connected to the Master node successfully.
5. Click Submit.

Create, attach, and protect volumes with high availability

Ops Center Administrator allows you to create, attach, and protect volumes in a single
page.

Before you begin

Register Data Instance Director in Ops Center Administrator.

Procedure
1. Click Servers on the dashboard to open the Servers page or navigate to the detail
page for a server.
2. Select a server, then select Create, Attach and Protect Volumes with High
Availability.

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3. Configure volumes for the specified storage system.

You can switch to another storage system by using the drop-down Storage System
list. If you want to add the volume to a virtual storage machine, use the Virtual
Storage Machine list. If you don't choose a VSM the meta-resource group will be
used.
a. Select the number of volumes.
b. Enter the volume label and select a suffix for it.
c. Select the size.
d. Select the volume unit: GiB or TiB
e. Select the pool type: Thin or Tiered.
f. For a Thin pool, select the tier: Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze.
If the storage system has available capacity from external storage, you can also
select the External tier.
g. (Optional) Select the pool from the list of available pools. The default selection
is Auto Selected, which means that Ops Center Administrator selects the best
pool for provisioning the volume based on utilization and tier requirements.

4. If desired, select a type of Capacity Saving: Compression or Deduplication and

Compression.

Note: Capacity saving can be set for volumes based on tiered pools only
for VSP F1500, VSP G1000, VSP G1500 models with microcode version
80-05-4x or later and VSP 5000 series models.

Note: If you choose Deduplication and Compression and later want to

update the volume to Compression you must first disable Capacity
Saving.

5. You can specify a Volume ID / Range in decimal or hexadecimal format.

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 Attach volumes and select secondary servers

6. (Optional) For a tiered pool, select the Tiering Policy from the drop-down list.
Tiering policy choices available in the drop down will depend on the choice of pool
that was made in the previous step. Tiering policy choice is not available for auto-
selected pools.
7. When you have made your choices, click the plus sign (+) to add the volume row to
the list of volumes that will be created. Add more rows as needed.
8. Click Next to choose attachment settings.

Attach volumes and select secondary servers

Before you begin

■ In the Settings menu, access the Data Instance Director Settings page and register
Data Instance Director.
■ Make sure that a quorum disk is available.
■ Make sure that a virtual storage machine is available unless you want use the meta-
resource group of the primary storage system. The virtual storage machine you select
must have one or more undefined resources available.

Procedure
1. The Host Mode is set by default to the server operating system. You can make a
selection if needed.
The server OS Type is provided when the server is added to Ops Center
Administrator.

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 Select volume protection options

2. The prepopulated Host Mode Option will depend on the Host Mode selection. The
default Host Mode Option can be changed manually.
Default values are set only for VMWARE EX and WIN EX host modes. The default for
all other Host Modes is none.
Ops Center Administrator identifies all host groups containing any of the server
WWNs. If all of those host groups have the same host mode and host mode options,
those settings are prepopulated with the same settings in the host groups.
3. Select the LUN Alignment.
By default, Ops Center Administrator uses the LUN number that is common to the
servers. If attachment is to only one server, this setting has no effect.
4. The Auto Create Zone is set to No by default. You can set it to Yes to automatically
create zones.
5. Leave ALUA set to Enabled if you want to set preferred paths.
6. Click Next to proceed to the Select Secondary Servers (Optional) panel.

7. Optionally, select a secondary server and click Next to proceed to the Protect
Volumes panel.

Select volume protection options

Select a secondary storage system and other options.

Procedure
1. Select a secondary storage system.
2. Choose whether to use an existing replication group.

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 Configuring connections to the primary and secondary sites

3. Consistency is set to Yes and cannot be edited. Using consistency means that copy
operations will run on all pairs in the group simultaneously.
4. Select a replication group from the options in the Replication Group list or enter a
new name. Up to 26 alphanumeric characters, and also hyphens (-) and
underscores (_), are allowed. Spaces are not allowed. If you select an existing
replication group, the Storage Pool of Secondary Storage System for S-Vol and
Quorum Disk are selected automatically.
5. Select the pool to use for S-Vols and select a quorum disk.
6. Click Next to configure the primary site.

Configuring connections to the primary and secondary sites

Configure the primary and secondary sites to complete the high availability
configuration.

Procedure
1. In the Configure Primary Site panel, connect ports in the primary storage system
to the server in the primary site and to the server in the secondary site, if there is
one . You can configure preferred and unpreferred paths.

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2. You can view servers and their WWNs, along with ports on the storage system. Ops
Center Administrator will scan for existing host groups on the storage array and
attempt to reuse them by default.
For storage systems in the VSP 5000 series, you can click a port to display a list of
ports with their DKC locations, CTL locations, and redundancy levels.

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 Configuring connections to the primary and secondary sites

The following options are available for managing LUN paths:

■ If you connect more than one server to the same port, the Share a host group
with all servers box displays. Select the box to add the servers to a single host
group.
■
Note: If host groups already exists on that port and single host group
cannot be created, the checkbox will not appear.

To prevent the volume from being added to an existing path, click the path to
highlight it and click Delete Selected.
Existing paths are populated as follows: all existing host groups with one or more
server WWN and the exact same host mode and host mode options selected on
the Attach Settings panel are populated as paths.
■ Click Suggest to populate automatically selected paths. By default, the least-used
ports are selected. Suggest paths requires that both server and storage ports be
logged into the fabric switches in the Ops Center Administrator inventory.

Note: For VSP 5000 series storage systems, the first port suggested
has the fewest LUN definitions and the second port suggested has
the second fewest LUN definitions.
■ To manually create a path, click a WWN and a port to connect them with a blue
connector line. Click the connector again and then click Delete Selected to
delete the connection.

3. Click Next to configure ports in the secondary storage system to the server in the
primary site, and to the server is the secondary site, if there is one.
4. Click Submit to create a job to create volumes, attach to servers and set up data
protection.
5. You can monitor the job in the Jobs page.

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Note: If the job does not complete successfully, access Data Instance Director to
remove the related resources (Block Host Node, Policy, and Data Flow) with the same
name as the selected Replication Group.
When using an existing Replication group, remove added P-Vol from Block Host
Node.
To edit a Block Host Node created by Ops Center Administrator in Data Instance
Director, specify LDEV IDs in decimal format per line and not in hex format or range
format.

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Chapter 9: Disabling high availability operations
Disabling high availability operations is a maintenance task that deletes the system
configurations used for high availability operations.
Certain operations must be performed in tools other than Ops Center Administrator:
■ Removal of replications:
Replications created from the S-VOL of the HA pairs, including any local or remote
replications, must be deleted or HA pair deletion will fail.
■ Stopping an OS or application:
In many cases the S-VOL must be disconnected before unprovisioning. If necessary,
stop the OS or application.
The P-VOL is not changed, so the OS or application using the P-VOL should not be
stopped.
■ The dummy host group created by Data Instance Director cannot be deleted in Ops
Center Administrator.
Notes regarding unprotecting volumes
■ Data Instance Director v6.8 or later must be registered in Ops Center Administrator to
remove high availability protection on a volume.
■ After removing protection by high availability set to a primary volume, all LUN paths
for a secondary volume are deleted. A host group for the LUN path that is created by
Ops Center Administrator is deleted when the host group has no LUN path. The
dummy host group that is created by Data Instance Director is not deleted. You can
delete it with other storage management software as needed.
Notes regarding deletion of a replication group
■ Data Instance Director v6.8 or later must be registered in Ops Center Administrator to
a replication group whose replication type is HA (high availability).
■ After deleting a replication group whose replication type is high availability, all LUN
paths for secondary volumes in the replication group are deleted. A host group for
the LUN path that is created by Ops Center Administrator is deleted when the host
group has no LUN path. The dummy host group that is created by Data Instance
Director is not deleted. You can delete it with other storage management software as
needed.

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 Disable by deleting the replication group and primary volumes

Notes regarding removal of primary volumes from a replication group

■ Data Instance Director v6.8 or later must be registered in Ops Center Administrator to
remove to remove primary volumes from a replication group whose replication type is
HA (high availability).
■ After removing primary volumes from a replication group whose replication type is
high availability, all LUN paths for secondary volumes paired with the removed
primary volumes in the replication group are deleted. A host group for the LUN path
that is created by Ops Center Administrator is deleted when the host group doesn't
have LUN path. The dummy host group that is created by Data Instance Director is
not deleted. You can delete it with other storage management software as needed.

Disable by deleting the replication group and primary

volumes
Disable high availability operations by deleting the replication group and primary
volumes.

Procedure
1. Delete all HA pairs by deleting the replication group:
On Replication Groups page, select the replication group and click Delete.
2. Detach primary volumes in one of the following ways:
■ On the detail page for the server, select all primary volumes and click Detach
Volume.
■ On the Volumes page, select a primary volume and click Detach Volume. Repeat
for each primary volume.

3. Delete primary volumes in one of the following ways:

■ On the Volumes page, select the primary volumes and click Delete.
■ One the detail page for each primary volume, click Delete.

4. (Optional) Delete the host group created by Data Instance Director.

5. (Optional) Remove volume IDs and host group IDs in the secondary virtual storage
machine.
a. Open the Virtual storage machines page and select the secondary VSM.
b. Click Remove VSM to open the Remove Undefined Resources from VSM
page.
c. Specify the number of volumes, the range of volume IDs, or both and click the
plus sign (+). Click Next.
d. Specify the number of host group IDs to delete and click the plus sign (+). Click
Submit.

6. Delete the secondary VSM

On the Virtual storage machines page, select the secondary VSM and click Delete.

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 Disable by deleting the replication group and retaining the primary volume

Disable by deleting the replication group and retaining the

primary volume
You can disable the high availability operations by deleting the replication group and
keeping the primary volume.

Procedure
1. Delete all HA pairs by deleting the replication group:
On the Replication Groups page, select the replication group and click Delete.

2. (Optional) Detach primary volumes from the secondary server:

On the details page for the server, select all primary volumes and click Detach
volumes.

3. (Optional) Set the ALUA status of the primary volumes to Disabled.

On the detail page for each volume, click Edit and set ALUA to disabled. Click
Submit.
4. (Optional) Delete the host group created by Data Instance Director.
5. (Optional) Remove volume IDs and host group IDs in the secondary virtual storage
machine.
a. Open the Virtual storage machines page and select the secondary VSM.
b. Click Remove VSM to open the Remove Undefined Resources from VSM
page.
c. Specify the number of volumes, the range of volume IDs, or both and click the
plus sign (+). Click Next.
d. Specify the number of host group IDs to delete and click the plus sign (+). Click
Submit.

6. Delete the secondary VSM

On the Virtual storage machines page, select the secondary VSM and click Delete.

Disable by deleting some HA pairs but retaining the

replication group
You can disable high availability operations without removing all HA pairs.

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 Disable by deleting some HA pairs but retaining the replication group and primary volumes

Procedure
1. Delete some, but not all, HA pairs in one of the following ways:
■ On the Replication Groups page, select a replication group and click Edit to
open the Edit Replication Group page. Select the primary volumes to remove
and click Submit.
■ On the Volumes page, select a primary volume and click Unprotect volume.
Repeat for each primary volume to be deleted.
■ On the details page for the server, select a primary volume and click Unprotect
volume. Repeat for each primary volume to be deleted.

2. Detach primary volumes in one of the following ways:

■ On the detail page for the server, select all primary volumes and click Detach
volume.
■ On the Volumes page, select a primary volume and click Detach volume. Repeat
for each primary volume.

3. Delete primary volumes in one of the following ways:

■ On the detail page for the server, select all primary volumes and click Delete
volume.
■ On the Volumes page, select a primary volume and click Delete volume. Repeat
for each primary volume.

4. (Optional) Remove volume IDs and host group IDs in the secondary virtual storage
machine.
a. Open the Virtual storage machines page and select the secondary VSM.
b. Click Remove VSM to open the Remove Undefined Resources from VSM
page.
c. Specify the number of volumes, the range of volume IDs, or both and click the
plus sign (+). Click Next.
d. Specify the number of host group IDs to delete and click the plus sign (+). Click
Submit.

Disable by deleting some HA pairs but retaining the

replication group and primary volumes
You can disable high availability operations by deleting some HA pairs and retaining both
the replication group and the primary volumes.

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 Disable by deleting some HA pairs but retaining the replication group and primary volumes

Procedure
1. Delete some, but not all, HA pairs in one of the following ways:
■ On the Replication Groups page, select a replication group and click Edit to
open the Edit Replication Group page. Select the primary volumes to remove
and click Submit.
■ On the Volumes page, select a primary volume and click Unprotect volume.
Repeat for each primary volume to be deleted.
■ On the details page for the server, select a primary volume and click Unprotect
volume. Repeat for each primary volume to be deleted.

2. (Optional) Remove volume IDs and host group IDs in the secondary virtual storage
machine.
a. Open the Virtual storage machines page and select the secondary VSM.
b. Click Remove VSM to open the Remove Undefined Resources from VSM
page.
c. Specify the number of volumes, the range of volume IDs, or both and click the
plus sign (+). Click Next.
d. Specify the number of host group IDs to delete and click the plus sign (+). Click
Submit.

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Chapter 10: Migrate volumes
Volume migration is moving a volume and its associated data from a source location to a
destination.

Volume migration workflow

Ops Center Administrator provides an end-to-end workflow for migrating volumes from
one pool to a different pool within one storage system (internal migration) and an end-
to-end workflow for migrating volumes from one storage system to another (external
migration).
Volume migration involves moving data from a set of source volumes to a set of
destination volumes. For example, you can migrate data when your volume performance
decreases or your environment changes. When relocating data based on the results of
performance monitoring for volumes being used by servers and applications, or when
migrating data from an old storage system to a newly set-up storage system, the data in
multiple volumes can be migrated to other volumes.
For internal migration, see the following: Migrating volumes (on page 157) ,
The following figure shows the high-level workflow of volume migration in Ops Center
Administrator.

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 External migration of volumes over 4TiB

External volume migration supports two options; in each case the volumes must be
attached to the target storage as the first step in migration:
1. Both the source and target storage systems are managed in Ops Center
Administrator.
2. The source storage system is one that is not supported by Ops Center
Administrator. In this case, the volume cannot be attached using Ops Center
Administrator.
Volume virtualization is a required step in external migration. It creates external parity
groups, creates external volumes on the external parity groups, and attaches the
volumes. It creates a pointer to the original volume from the target storage system.

External migration of volumes over 4TiB

To migrate an external volume greater than 4TiB, first create a data direct mapping
(DDM) pool.
The DDM pool is used to create the external volume. You can delete the extra pool
during the unvirtualization phase,
DDM pools are flagged DDM Enabled: YES in the Pools page and in the pool details
pages.
To add a DDM pool, navigate to the Advanced tab of the Create Pool page and select Yes
under Intend to enable DDM?

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 Attaching volumes to storage when the source is managed in Ops Center Administrator (for external
migration)

Attaching volumes to storage when the source is managed in

Ops Center Administrator (for external migration)
As a part of external volume migration with the source storage system managed in Ops
Center Administrator, the volumes must first be attached to the target storage system.

Procedure
1. On the Ops Center Administrator dashboard, click Storage Systems to see the
inventory of storage systems and capacity information.
2. To select volumes to attach to storage, do one of the following:
■ Select a storage system and click Volumes to see the configured volumes for the
storage system.
■ Click Servers on the dashboard and select a server.

3. Select one or more volumes and click Attach to Storage.

4. Select the protocol to display the ports for that protocol.

For storage systems in the VSP 5000 series, you can click a port to display a list of
ports with their DKC locations, CTL locations, and redundancy levels.

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 Discovering external storage

5. Click a source storage port and then click a target storage port to create a path.
6. Click Submit.

Result
A job is started in Ops Center Administrator to create a path from the volume to the
target storage system.

Discovering external storage

Discover external storage on the target storage system so you can virtualize volumes.

Before you begin

Volumes must be attached to the target storage system.

Procedure
1. Open the Storage System page for the target storage system.
2. Click Ports and select the ports that are attached to the source storage system.
3. Click Discover External Storages.

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Next steps
Discover and virtualize volumes.

Discovering and virtualizing volumes

When using external migration, volumes must be virtualized before they can be
migrated.

Before you begin

Perform the steps to attach volumes to storage and discover external storage.

Procedure
1. Navigate to External Volumes on the target storage system.
2. Click the plus (+) sign to open the Create External Volumes page.

A list of discovered LUNS appears.

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 Discovering and virtualizing volumes

3. Select the discovered LUNs and click Next.

4. On the Volume Settings page, you can use Volume Settings to select a Volume
ID / Range. Use the default selection Auto, to allow automatic selection of the
volume. You can select either a Decimal or Hexadecimal range and enter the
endpoints of the range. Click Next to select servers and then click Next.

5. You can view servers and their WWNs, along with ports on the storage system.

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 Discovering and virtualizing volumes

For storage systems in the VSP 5000 series, you can click a port to display a list of
ports with their DKC locations, CTL locations, and redundancy levels.

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 Migrating volumes

The following options are available for managing LUN paths:

■ If you connect more than one server to the same port, the Share a host group
with all servers box displays. Select the box to add the servers to a single host
group.
■
Note: If host groups already exists on that port and single host group
cannot be created, the checkbox will not appear.

To prevent the volume from being added to an existing path, click the path to
highlight it and click Delete Selected.
Existing paths are populated as follows: all existing host groups with one or more
server WWN and the exact same host mode and host mode options selected on
the Attach Settings panel are populated as paths.
■ Click Suggest to populate automatically selected paths. By default, the least-used
ports are selected. Suggest paths requires that both server and storage ports be
logged into the fabric switches in the Ops Center Administrator inventory.

Note: For VSP 5000 series storage systems, the first port suggested
has the fewest LUN definitions and the second port suggested has
the second fewest LUN definitions.
■ To manually create a path, click a WWN and a port to connect them with a blue
connector line. Click the connector again and then click Delete Selected to
delete the connection.

6. Click a server and then click a port to create a path between server and port.
7. Click Submit.

Next steps
1. After virtualization completes successfully, go to the server and locate and mount
the newly attached external volume. This changes the I/O from the older
volume(LUN) to the new LUN. This action is required before data can be migrated
and will ensure that no data is lost in the process.
2. Select volumes on the External Volumes page and migrate them.

Migrating volumes
You can select volumes and migrate them immediately or on a schedule.
You must be either a storage administrator to migrate volumes.

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 Migrating volumes

Before you begin

For internal migration ensure the following:
■ All selected volumes belong to a single storage system that is managed in Ops Center
Administrator.
■ All selected volumes will be migrated to a different pool of the same storage system.
■ All selected volumes are attached to servers.
■ The volumes are not protected. However, a clone pair can be migrated if the P-VOL
status is PSUS and the S-VOLs status is SSUS.
■ The storage system has at least one eligible pool (Thin or Tiered) with enough space
to migrate volumes.
For external migration, ensure the following:
■ The target storage system must be onboarded in Ops Center Administrator.
■ The source volumes must be virtualized and selectable as external volumes.
■ The target storage system must have at least one eligible pool (Thin or Tiered) with
enough space to migrate volumes.

Procedure
1. For internal migration, navigate to one of the following to select volumes:
■ The Volumes page
■ The details page for a volume
■ The details page for a server
■ The details page for a pool

2. For external migration, navigate to the External Volumes page.

3. Select volumes to migrate and click Migrate volumes.

4. Select a pool that has enough space to migrate the volume and click Next.

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 Managing external volumes

5. In Volume Settings you can choose a type of Capacity Savings and select a
Volume ID / Range.
The default selection for Volume ID / Range is Auto, which allows automatic
selection. You can select either a Decimal or Hexadecimal range and enter the
endpoints of the range. Click Next.
6. In Task Settings, choose to Migrate Now or Migrate Later:
■ Migrate Now requires a Migration Task Name.
■ Migrate Later requires a Migration Task Name, a Start Time, and a Start
Date. You can change the schedule or discard it after submitting the task.

7. Click Submit and confirm that you want to migrate the volume.

Managing external volumes

Access the External Volumes page to add, migrate, or delete external volumes.

Procedure
1. Navigate to the detail page for a storage system and click External Volumes.

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2. On the External Volumes page, the following actions are available:

■ Click Open the Logical Devices page in Hitachi Storage Navigator to perform
advanced migration operations in Storage Navigator.
■ To create external volumes, click the plus sign (+) to open the Create External
Volumes page.
■ To migrate external volumes, select attached volumes and click Migrate
Volumes.

Note: The Assigned to Migration filter can display which volumes

are already part of a migration plan. If a volume status is Yes
(Unmanaged) the volume is assigned for migration in other storage
management tools.

Managing migration tasks

Access the Migration Tasks page to modify or delete migration tasks, or to interrupt a
migration.

Procedure
1. Navigate to the detail page for a storage system and click Migration Tasks.

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 Editing a volume migration task

2. On the Migration Tasks page you can perform the following actions:
■ Select a scheduled task and click Edit Migration Task to open the Edit
Migration Task page where you can update the pool and the schedule. You can
update the capacity saving setting and volume ID range of the target volume.
■ Select an in-progress migration task, click Interrupt Migration in Progress and
confirm that you want to stop the migration. The migration cannot be restarted
once it has been interrupted.
■ Select a migration task that is not in progress, click Delete Migration Task and
confirm that you want to delete it.
For more information about deleting migration tasks, see Deleting a volume
migration task (on page 163) .

Editing a volume migration task

Update the pool or the schedule for a planned migration.
If a volume migration has been scheduled but is not in progress you change the selected
pool or schedule.

Procedure
1. On the storage system detail page, click Migration Tasks.
2. On the Migration Tasks page, select a scheduled task and click Edit Migration
Task.

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 Interrupting an in-progress volume migration

3. You can choose a different pool by clicking the selected pool to unselect and then
selecting another pool. Click Next.

4. In the Volume Settings panel, you can update the Capacity Saving setting and
Volume ID / Range of the target volume.
5. In Task Settings, you can change the schedule or choose to migrate immediately.

Interrupting an in-progress volume migration

You can interrupt a volume migration that is in progress.
The length of time for volume migration depends on the number of volumes that will be
migrated and the protocol. Fibre Channel is faster than iSCSI. If it is taking too long, you
can interrupt it. Once the migration is interrupted, you will need to discard the task by
deleting the migration task. If you want to retry, you will then need to create a new
migration task.

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 Workflow for clean-up after migration

Procedure
1. Click Migration Tasks on the storage system details page.
2. Select a migration task.
3. To stop a task in progress, click Interrupt Migration in Progress and confirm that
you want to stop the migration.

Workflow for clean-up after migration

The following diagram shows the workflow for clean-up after migration.

Deleting a volume migration task

You can delete a migration task that is not in-progress.

Procedure
1. Navigate to the detail page for a storage system and click Migration Tasks.
2. On the Migration Tasks page, select a migration task and click Delete Migration
Task.
3. Confirm that you want to delete the migration task.

Unvirtualizing external volumes

After you have finished migration, you have an external link to an old volume that you no
longer need. Unvirtualizing volumes is cleaning up the environment after migration.

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 Detaching volumes from storage

Unvirtualization deletes the external paths and logical devices created during the
virtualization flow. It also deletes the external parity groups and the paths from the
external parity group to the source storage system. Unvirtualization detaches the
external volume, removes the zone, if applicable. It also deletes the external volume,
external parity group and paths. Unvirtualization is required to restore the system back
to its original state.

Procedure
1. To unvirtualize, select the external volumes in the details page for the storage
system .
2. Click the trash can. This also deletes the external parity groups and the paths from
the external parity group to the source storage system.

Detaching volumes from storage

Detaching volumes from storage means removing the connection between source and
target storage systems.
Detaching volumes from storage deletes the paths from the source storage system to
the target storage system. The paths were set when volumes were attached to storage.
Detaching volumes from storage is required to restore the system back to its original
state.

Procedure
1. Navigate to Volumes.
2. Select the volume.
3. Click Detach from Target Storage.

Shredding volumes
After you have completed volume migration, you can erase data in the source volumes
by shredding.
You can shred source volumes that were used in either internal or external migration. To
shred volumes that were used for external migration, the volumes must belong to a
storage system that is managed by Ops Center Administrator. For external storage
systems (such as third party storage systems), the source volumes must to be shredded
in the third party storage management tool.
You can shred volumes using a shredding pattern that you create or a pre-defined
pattern. You can view and find the volumes that are shredding and you can interrupt
(stop) shredding operations.
You must be a storage administrator to perform shredding.
Ops Center Administrator allows you to interrupt (stop) the running shredding
operations. If you want to perform an urgent operation while shredding is running, first
interrupt the shredding job and then execute the operation.

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 Shredding volumes

Before you begin

Ensure that:
■ Volumes use a custom-made shredding pattern created by you or a pre-defined
pattern.
■ The volumes are unattached and are not snapshots.
■ The volumes do not have capacity savings.
■ Up to 7 passes are specified.
■ The storage systems have a physical connection/zone between them.

Procedure
1. From the dashboard, click Storage System, click a storage system tile to open the
detail page, and click Volumes.
2. Select volumes to be shredded.
3. Click Shred Volumes.

4. Choose Basic or Advanced. The Basic method performs one pass. Choose
Advanced to select the number of passes and enter a pattern for each pass.

Result
The volume has the status SHREDDING in the Volumes page.

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Chapter 11: Monitor block storage
Hitachi Ops Center Administrator supports monitoring of capacity, data protection, jobs,
and hardware.

Monitoring capacity
Monitor the capacity of block storage pools.
You can use Ops Center Administrator to monitor block storage capacity so you can tell
when physical capacity usage is exceeding thresholds set for your pools.

Note: Capacity alerts for Snap (HTI) pools are not supported.

Alerts are represented by the number in the Capacity tile. If there is a checkmark, there
are no alerts. A red circle represents an Error and a yellow triangle represents a Warning.
Only the highest level of alert is shown, so a red circle can include Errors and Warnings if
there is more than one level of alert. The Error threshold is set in the "Utilization
Threshold (High)" field when the pool is created and the Warning threshold is set in the
"Utilization Threshold (Low)" field.
Capacity Alerts for all storage systems are shown on the dashboard and on the
Monitoring tab. Click the Capacity tile on the Monitoring tab to view the pools that have
alerts. In the expanded carousel, click Pools to view alert details. The number of Capacity
Alerts cannot be more than 1 because Ops Center Administrator monitors at the
component level, which is pools.
The alert clearance process runs every 20 minutes for each storage system that has
pools with errors. Alerts are only cleared when all pools with errors in the storage system
return to normal state. For example, if there are 5 pools with errors in one storage
system, then all alerts will display until all the pool alerts are cleared.

Procedure
1. Monitoring alerts display for the following resources:
■ All storage systems: If Capacity Alerts on the dashboard has a red circle or a
yellow triangle, click it to open the Monitoring tab with the number of Pool
alerts exposed in the Capacity carousel. Alternatively, you can click the
Monitoring tab and then click the Capacity tile.
■ Storage systems inventory: This option also displays all capacity alerts. Click
Storage Systems on the dashboard and if the Capacity Alerts tile has a red
circle or a yellow triangle, click it to open the carousel in the Monitoring tab.

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■ Storage system detail: In the storage systems inventory, click a storage system
tile. If the Capacity Alerts tile has a red circle or yellow triangle, click it to open
the tile in the Monitoring tab and display the Pool alerts for the selected storage
system.
■ Pool inventory: On the storage system inventory page, click a storage system tile
to view resources for the storage system. Click Pools. Then click the Capacity
Alerts tile to open the alerts carousel for the storage system pools in the
Monitoring tab.

2. In the Capacity alerts carousel, click Pools to populate the table with details of the
alerts.

Note: Ref Code mapping to trap descriptions is available in a file

included with the ISO image.

Next steps
If there are pools with alerts displaying the "Error" status, you can expand the pools to
increase their capacity.

Monitoring hardware
Monitor hardware devices to view and investigate warnings and critical alerts.
Ops Center Administrator monitors components in your storage systems and displays
alerts on resource and storage system pages. You can also see how many components
are in normal status.
Alerts are represented by a number in the Hardware tile or the Hardware Alerts tile. A
red circle represents a critical alert and a yellow triangle represents a warning. Only
critical alerts are shown unless there are no critical alerts, in which case warning alerts
are displayed.
The alerts are received from the storage array. There is one alert per component type,
for a maximum of eight.
The alert clearance process runs every 20 minutes for each storage system that has
components with errors. Alerts are only cleared when all components of a given type
with errors in the storage system return to normal state. The exception is disks, each of
which can have alerts cleared, even if other disks remain in error. Alerts for ports and
processors are cleared together, so alerts are cleared only when all ports and all
processors are normal.
For example, if there are five fans with alerts in one storage system, they will be cleared
only when each and every fan alert is cleared. However, for disks, each alert is cleared as
and when disk alert clearance is available.
Ops Center Administrator monitors the following components:
■ Disks
■ Fans
■ Batteries

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■ Cache
■ Processors
■ Power supplies
■ Ports
■ Shared memory

Procedure
1. Hardware alerts display in the following pages. Alerts are displayed by type of
component.
■ Dashboard: Click the Hardware Alerts tile or the Monitoring tab and click the
Hardware tile to display the types of components.
■ Storage system inventory: Includes all hardware alerts.
■ Storage system detail: Click a storage system tile and click the Hardware Alerts
tile to view hardware alerts for the selected storage system in the Monitoring
tab.
■ Parity Group inventory: Click a storage system tile and then click Parity Groups
to open the inventory. Click the Hardware Alerts tile to view alerts for disks
where parity groups are located.

Note: Ref Code mapping to trap descriptions is available in a file

included with the installation media.

2. Click a component type to display details in the table. Review the details in order to
resolve the issue.

Monitoring data protection

Data protection monitoring enables you to monitor the status of each data protection
task.
You can view jobs alerts for your data protections tasks in a single page. Data protection
alerts can be viewed by storage system and by server, and are available for the
aggregated storage systems.
Alerts for the following operations are available:
■ Failed Clone Now operations
■ Failed Snapshot operations
A red circle with a number in a Data Protection alerts tile indicates the number of
primary volumes and servers on which data protection tasks have failed. You can click
the tile to investigate failed tasks.

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Procedure
1. View data protection alerts for the following resources:
■ All data protection alerts:
● From the dashboard, click Monitoring or Data Protection Alerts to open the
Monitoring tab.
● Click Storage Systems on the dashboard and then click Data Protection
Alerts to open the Monitoring tab.
■ A single storage system: Click Storage Systems and then click a storage system
tile. Click the Data Protection Alerts tile to open the Monitoring tab.
■ Volumes attached to a single server: Click Servers from the dashboard and click
a Server tile. Then click Data Protection Alerts to open the Monitoring tab.
The volumes inventory for a server includes failed tasks marked by an
exclamation point. Click an exclamation point to view all volumes with failed
tasks in the Monitoring tab.

2. Click the Data Protection tile in the Monitoring tab to open the carousel and then
click Volumes to display details that can help you identify the issue. You can click
the exclamation point for any failed task to view details for the volume.
GAD pairs with the status PSUE are displayed.
3. Select a volume to perform one of the availablle operations:
■ Click Delete to delete the volume.
■ Click Edit to open Update Volume page (on page 89) .
■ Click Unprotect Volumes to remove data protection.
■ Click Restore to open the Restore Volume page and restore secondary volumes
to a primary volume.

Monitoring jobs
View the Jobs page to get an update on the status of a task or to view the errors
associated with a job.

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Procedure
1. If there is a red circle with a number in the Jobs Alert tile, it reflects the number of
failed jobs and jobs that succeeded with errors. Access the Jobs page in one of these
ways:
■ From the dashboard, click Jobs Alerts to open the Jobs page, or click the Jobs
tab.
■ On the dashboard, click Storage Systems to open the storage systems
inventory. If the Jobs Alert tile has a red circle with a number, click it to view the
Jobs page.
■ In the storage systems inventory, click a storage system tile. If the Jobs Alert tile
has a red circle with a number, click it to view the inventory of jobs associated
with the storage system.

2. The Total Jobs bar provides a graphical view of the relative number of jobs in each
status. To filter jobs by status, click on the corresponding color in the Total Jobs bar.
3. View the status of jobs.
You can use the Search function to search by keyword. Common search terms
include:
■ Volume
■ Pool
■ Storage
■ Create
■ Provision
■ Expand
■ Delete
The Status column displays the job status.

Icon Description

success The job completed successfully.

success with errors The job completed successfully, but there were
errors.

* in progress The job is still in progress.

failed The job failed.

*: If the job status does not change from "In Progress" for more than 20 minutes,
check that storage system is not locked.

4. Click a job to open the Job Details page where you can view any child jobs and
reports associated with each job. Reports are the messages that the Ops Center
Administrator service returns regarding the progress of each job. Child jobs serve to
track jobs that launch multiple, smaller tasks (such as creating multiple volumes).

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Next steps
■ If the job failed, review the job reports to determine the cause of the failure.
■ If the job completed successfully with errors, click the job to view the error message.

Setting up to receive SNMP alerts

If you are using external management software, you can add an SNMP (Simple Network
Management Protocol) manager to enable alerts about devices in registered storage
systems. This option is not required to monitor hardware in Hitachi Ops Center
Administrator.
When an SNMP manager is added, it collects information from SNMP agents that are
installed in components of registered storage systems. The storage systems send traps
to Ops Center Administrator using SNMP v3.

Note: Ops Center Administrator manages such alerts automatically, for

processors, memory, disks, power supplies, batteries, ports, caches, pools,
and fans.

Ops Center Administrator uses SNMP v3 to send traps to external management software
as soon as they are received. The structure of the traps is defined in a MIB file and Ops
Center Administrator uses its own MIB file to add information to traps received so that
the trap is easier to understand. It is important to import the Ops Center Administrator
file to access the additional information. The Ops Center Administrator MIB file is
included in the product installation media.
The SNMP manager enables you to do the following in the external software:
■ Determine whether there are any problems with storage system components or
whether the status is normal.
■ Identify the specific component that in warning or critical status.
The following types of components can be monitored:
■ Processor
■ Memory
■ Power supply
■ Battery
■ Fan
■ Physical drive or disk
■ Port
■ Cache
■ Pool

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 Setting up to receive SNMP alerts

Before you begin

SNMP management requires:
■ External management software capable of receiving SNMP alerts.
■ SNMP agents must be configured in the storage environment.
■ The Ops Center Administrator MIB file has been imported to the SNMP manager.

Procedure
1. Click Settings and select SNMP Settings to open the SNMP page. Click the plus sign
(+) to open the SNMP Manager Management page.
2. Enter the following details:
■ Name: up to 32 characters.

Note: If you are editing an existing SNMP manager, Name cannot be

edited.
■ Username of the SNMP manager
■ IP Address: of the SNMP manager.
■ Port: Positive integers from 0 to 65535. are allowed.
■ (Optional) Privacy Protocol: You can choose from the following:
● NO_PRIV: No privacy protocol.
● DES: Data Encryption Standard.
● TRIPLE_DES: Triple Data Encryption Algorithm
● AES-128: Advanced Encryption Standard.
■ Privacy Password: If you choose a privacy protocol, you must enter a password.
■ Auth Protocol: If you choose a privacy protocol, you must also select an
authentication protocol. The choices are MD5, SHA, or NO_AUTH.
■ Auth Password: If you are using an authentication protocol, you must enter a
password.

3. Click Submit.

Result
A job is created to add or update an SNMP manager.
Example
The following images show the difference between a trap with the MIB file imported and
a trap without the MIB file in use.

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Administrator
Access Ops Center Administrator administration tasks in Virtual Appliance Manager or
through Settings in the top navigation menu.

Administering security
Ops Center Administrator comes with a default local user that has permissions for all
operations in Ops Center Administrator.
On a regular basis, you can change the password of the local user by accessing Change
Local Password in Settings in the top navigation menu.
If you want to provide more granular control to your users, you can use role-based
access to control the operations that can be managed by different users. To do so, you
must first add your LDAP server as the source of authentication. Ops Center
Administrator supports adding one external LDAP server.
You can then assign Ops Center Administrator roles to user groups that exist in the
Active Directory account domain. Members of the user groups will use the assigned user
roles, and therefore, only the privileges attached to those user roles.

Note: You must use your User Principal Name (UPN) to log on. The UPN is a
system user name in the format username@domainName (for example,
[email protected]).

Privileges and roles

Access to the storage system is restricted by roles. Roles determine what a user can and
cannot do. The security administrator can grant access to users by assigning users roles
with privileges that are attached to those specific roles.

Roles Privileges

System administrator ■ Addition, administration, and deletion

of servers, storage system, and fabric
switches, SNMP manager, and tier
management.
■ Addition, administration, and deletion
of parity groups.

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Roles Privileges
■ Addition, administration, and deletion
of virtual file server resource groups.
■ Read-only privileges to monitor
everything in Ops Center
Administrator.
■ Registration of Data Instance Director
in Ops Center Administrator.

Storage administrator ■ Addition, administration, and deletion

of pools.
■ Addition, administration, and deletion
of volumes, including creating,
attaching to hosts, and data protection.
■ Addition, administration, and deletion
of port configurations.
■ Read-only privileges to monitor
everything in Ops Center
Administrator.

Security administrator ■ Addition, administration and deletion

of remote account domains.
■ User role assignment to groups.
■ Read-only privileges to monitor
everything in Ops Center
Administrator.

Monitoring role Read-only privileges to monitor everything

in Ops Center Administrator.

Registering an LDAP domain using a DNS server

■ Supported LDAP platforms: Currently, only Microsoft Active Directory is supported for
LDAP authentication.
■ LDAP domain registration is via DNS or by VAM:
There are two methods which may be used to register a Microsoft Active Directory
account domain with Ops Center Administrator. The first uses the Ops Center
Administrator security settings and locates LDAP servers based on DNS-based SRV
records. The second method, using VAM, should be used only in the case that the first
solution doesn't work. The one known reason why the first solution might fail is a
large number of SRV records.

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 Adding an account domain

Before you begin

■ Make sure that the DNS server in Ops Center Administrator points only to DNS
servers which are able to resolve SRV records for your LDAP environment. In a
Microsoft AD environment, Microsoft DNS servers for a given domain will be able to
resolve the SRV records for your LDAP environment.
■ The Security Administrator role is required.
■ If you want to enable SSL / TLS, obtain a Root Certification Authority Certificate and
save it where you can access it during the procedure.

Procedure
1. Open a browser and enter the IP address of your Ops Center Administrator host
machine. Log in to Ops Center Administrator.
2. Click Settings and select Security Settings to open the Security page.
3. Click the pencil icon to open the Account Credentials page .
4. Enter a valid user name in UPN format (for example:
[email protected]) and the user's password. Click OK.
5. In the Account Domain field, enter your Active Directory DNS domain name. Click
Submit to create a job to add an account domain.
To enable SSL or TLS, select Enable SSL/TLS and then click Import Certificate to
import a Root Certification Authority Certificate.
You can view the status on the job on the Jobs page.
6. When the job completes successfully, you can add Active Directory groups in Group
Name in Security Settings.

Adding an account domain

Add an account domain so you can assign roles to user groups.

Note: Once a fully qualified domain for a current active directory server is
added, you can change the credentials on an ongoing basis and save the
changes. To update the AD domain name, remove the existing Account
Domain and add a new one.

Procedure
1. Click Settings and select Security to open the Security page.
2. In the Account Domain field, enter the AD domain name for the active AD server.
3. Enter the Active Directory server Username and Password. Ops Center
Administrator uses these credentials to connect to the external domain and get the
list of user groups in the Active Directory source. You can assign Ops Center
Administrator roles to these user groups. Ops Center Administrator does not
modify the user groups in the Active Directory source.
4. To enable SSL or TLS, select Enable SSL/TLS and then click Import Certificate to
install an Active Directory CA Root Certificate.
5. Click Submit.
Changes take effect immediately.

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 Assigning user roles

Next steps
When the job is complete, you can assign user roles.

Assigning user roles

After adding an external LDAP source to Ops Center Administrator, you can assign Ops
Center Administrator roles to user groups.
More than one role can be assigned to a user group. In this case the user will have
permissions for multiple roles.
Once a role is assigned to a user group, you can change the role assignment and save it.

Before you begin

Add an account domain.

Procedure
1. Access the Security page by opening the settings menu and then selecting Security
Settings.
2. In the Group Name field, type in a user group name from the account domain.
Partial matches automatically populate the field.
3. In the User Role field, select an Ops Center Administrator user role:
■ SecurityAdministrator: Includes privileges needed for the following:
● Addition, administration, and deletion of remote account domains.
● User role assignment to groups.
● Read-only privileges to monitor everything in Ops Center Administrator.
■ SystemAdministrator: Includes privileges needed for the following:
● Addition, administration, and deletion of servers, storage, and fabric switches,
onboarding of storage (block storage with or without NAS modules), SNMP
manager, and tier management.
● Addition, administration, and deletion of parity groups and port
configurations.
● Addition, administration, and deletion of virtual file server resource groups.
● Read-only privileges to monitor everything in Ops Center Administrator.
■ StorageAdministrator: Includes privileges needed for storage provisioning and
data protection:
● Addition, administration, and deletion of pools.
● Addition, administration, and deletion of volumes, including creating,
attaching to servers, and data protection.
● Read-only privileges to monitor everything in Ops Center Administrator.
■ MonitoringRole: Read-only privileges to monitor everything in Ops Center
Administrator.

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4. Click Submit.
The changes take effect immediately.
Example
For example, there might be a user group named "IT" in the account domain, whose
members need to perform security functions in Ops Center Administrator. Assigning the
User Role "SecurityAdministrator" to the Group Name "IT" would give security
administration privileges to all members of "IT".

Registering an LDAP domain using the virtual appliance manager

■ Supported LDAP platforms: Currently, only Microsoft Active Directory is supported for
LDAP authentication
■ LDAP domain registration is via DNS or by VAM:
There are two methods which may be used to register a Microsoft Active Directory
account domain with Ops Center Administrator. The first uses the Ops Center
Administrator security settings and locates LDAP servers based on DNS-based SRV
records. The second method, using VAM, should be used only in the case that the first
solution doesn't work. The one known reason why the first solution might fail is a
large number of SRV records.

Before you begin

The Security Administrator role is required.

Procedure
1. Open a browser and enter https://ip-address/vam in the address bar. The
default credentials for a virtual appliance installation are:
■ User name: service
■ Password: Chang3Me!
The default credentials for an application installer installation are:
■ User name: sysadmin
■ Password: sysadmin

2. Click the Domain tab.

3. Enter a domain name and click Add. A valid domain name is as follows:
■ No more than 255 alphanumeric characters. Periods (.) and hyphen (-) are
allowed.
■ No more than 63 characters between dots.
■ Does not begin or end with a hyphen (-).
■ Domain names are not case sensitive.

4. Enter a TCP port.

5. Enter an IP address and click the plus sign (+) to add it to the list of IP Addresses.
Click Submit.

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 Updating a LDAP domain registered using the virtual appliance manager

6. Log in to Ops Center Administrator and navigate to Security Settings. Enter the
domain name with the suffix .hid.local.
Example:
■ Domain to be registered: eng-hsa.com. User present in the domain: user_one.
■ User registers eng-hsa.com with above steps in virtual appliance manager.
■ On the Security Settings page enter the domain name: eng-
hsa.com.hid.local , username: user_one, and password: user_one’s
password.
You can enter Active Directory groups in Group Name and then map them to roles.

Updating a LDAP domain registered using the virtual appliance manager

You can update or delete a domain that was registered using VAM.

Before you begin

The Security Administrator role is required to delete a registered domain or an account
domain.

Procedure
1. Log into the virtual appliance manager and click Domain.
■ Update the port: Select a registered domain from Registered Domain list.
Update the TCP port and save your change.
■ Update or delete an IP address:
● Click the trash icon next to an IP address to delete it.
● Click the pencil icon next to an IP address to update it.
■ Delete a registered domain:
Make sure the domain is not listed in the Security Settings in Ops Center
Administrator. To remove it, you will need to enter your Security Administrator
credentials.
In the Registered Domain list, select a registered domain and click Delete. Enter
your Security Administrator credentials in the Please enter your credential box.

2. Save your changes in the Domain page.

Backup and restore system settings

Use Virtual Appliance Manager to backup system settings before moving Ops Center
Administrator to another instance.

The settings include configuration files, an email template file and an SQL file.

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 System elements preserved during backup

Procedure
1. Open a browser and enter https://ip-address/vam/ to access the Virtual Appliance
Manager and adjust the settings for your server environment.
■ User name: service
■ Password: Chang3Me!

2. Click Backup to download a tar.gz file containing system settings.

3. When you are ready to restore, log in to Virtual Appliance Manager
4. Click Restore and either drag and drop the backup file or click the plus sign (+).
5. Click Submit. The restore operation may take up to an hour.

Note: Do not cancel the restore operation. Cancellation may corrupt the
Ops Center Administrator instance. The progress bar may indicate 100%
completion even though the operation has not completed.

The Ops Center Administrator appliance restarts.

System elements preserved during backup

The following system elements are preserved as part of the backup:
■ Element inventories: Storage Systems, Servers, and Fabric Switch inventories are
preserved.
■ SNMP Managers: Locations for forwarding SNMP traps are preserved.
■ Jobs: All jobs on the system are preserved.
■ Alerts: Monitoring alerts are preserved.
■ Tier Names: Tier names for DT pools are preserved.
■ Security information: Local usernames and passwords, as well as integrated Active
Directories are preserved.
■ Replication groups: All copy groups and replication groups and their associated
snapshot schedules are preserved.
■ Virtual Appliance Manager settings: Connected NTP servers, log level settings, SSL
certificate and service settings are preserved. Host settings are not preserved.
■ Migration tasks: All migration tasks and their associated migration pairs are
preserved.

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 Download audit logs

Download audit logs

Procedure
1. Open a browser and enter https://ip-address/vam in the address bar.
The default credentials for an application installer installation are:

User name: sysadmin

Password: sysadmin

The default credentials for a virtual appliance installation are:

User name: service

Password: Chang3Me!
2. Click Download Audit Logs .
It may take a couple of minutes for the system to respond as it compiles the logs.
The logs are downloaded as compressed tar archives.

Download maintenance information

You can use the CLI to download Ops Center Administrator maintenance information.

Procedure
1. Either open an SSH connection to the VM or open the VMware console and press
Alt+F2 to reach the console.
2. . Log in as root account.
3. In the terminal, execute the command: /opt/rainier/bin/rainier-getlogs -
dir [output-directory].
4. Check the location of collected log file (rainier-logs.tar.gz) in the specified
output directory, and copy the file to your client computer as required.

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Index
A devices (continued)
monitoring 167
accelerated data compression 39
account domain
adding 176
E
Active Directory 174 EVS
add details 99
quorum disk 120 inventory 98
administration 174 EVSs
administrator 68 creating 98
alerts 166 export
audience 8 server 72
exports
B creating 102
details 102
backup
updating 102
elements preserved 180
external parity groups 38
block storage
configuring 25
F
C fabric switches
adding 27
capacity
supported models 28
monitoring 166
system requirements 28
cloning 106, 107
file pool
copy group
details 97
renaming 114
file pools
creating 95
D expanding 97
dashboard inventory 94
analyzing data 18 managing 94
data compression 39 file storage
data protection configuring 94
cloning 107 file system
monitoring 168 inventory 99
snapshots 108 file systems
data protection concepts 106 creating 100
deduplication 82 deleting 100
Device Manager - Storage Navigator expanding 101
accessing 64 managing 99
using 64 mounting/unmounting 100
devices updating 101

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file systems (continued) P
viewing details 100
parity groups
creating 30
G initializing 35
getting started 13 inventory 35
reserved for NAS firmware 35
H status 35
parity groups, creating
hardware 167 advanced method 33
Hardware Alerts 167 basic method 31
HNAS 13.6 68 password
hosts local, changing 15
updating 75 pool creation
hsa 3.1 106 basic method, calculation of pool sizes 45
pools
I creating 39
inventory 20 creating with advanced method 45
details 52
expanding 48
J
inventory 40
job status 169 updating 48, 52
jobs viewing details 48
monitoring 169 pools, creating 41
ports
L enabling security 25
product version 8
LDAP 178
log
download 181
Q
LUN paths quorum disk
editing 77 add 120

M R
migrate volumes 150 register 178
monitoring remote replication 137
capacity 166 replication 106
data protecting 168 replication groups
hardware 167 editing 116
jobs 169 inventory 114
viewing 113
N resources 20
Roles 65
NAS Manager
accessing 67
using for advanced file storage configuration 67
S
security
O administering 174
server
overview 13
export 72
servers

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servers (continued) user roles
adding 70 assigning 177
attach existing volumes 72
create and attach volumes 72 V
delete 72
virtual appliance manager
details 73
download system log 181
edit 72
virtual file server
inventory 72
deleting 98
Settings menu 15
details 99
shares
enabling/disabling 98
adding AD groups to 103
inventory 98
creating 102
renaming 99
details 103
virtual file servers
updating 104
creating 98
shares and exports
virtual storage machine 127
inventory 101
volume details 106
managing 101
volume migration 150
snapshots 106, 108
volumes
SNMP alerts
attaching 55, 85
enabling 171
cloning 107
SNMP manager
create and attach 53
adding 171
create and attach to servers 22
updating 171
details 92
spares
expanding 89
managing 35
inventory 90
storage system
managing 82
adding 23
snapshots 108
configuration workflow 22
updating 89
editing 69
volumes, creating 53, 83
onboarding
vsm 127
workflow 21
updating 69
storage systems W
deleting 59 workflow
details 59 configuring a storage system 22
editing 59 onboarding a storage system 21
inventory 58
managing 58
system log
download 181

T
tiers
managing 69

U
unified management
overview 14
user groups
roles 65

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