Dell PowerVault NX3500 Manuel de service

Dell PowerVault

NX3500 System

Administrator’s Guide

Notes and Cautions

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your computer.

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instructions are not followed.

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2012 - 01 Rev. A02

Contents 3

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Terms Used in the Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

PowerVault NX3500 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Key Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

PowerVault NX3500 Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

System Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

NAS Controller Pair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

PowerVault MD Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

BPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

SAN Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Internal Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Internal Network A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Internal Network B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

LAN or Client Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

2 Setting Up Your PowerVault

NX3500 Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Setting Up the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Choosing the Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Completing the NAS System Setup

Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

4Contents

NAS System Setup Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Preparing Your Management Station. . . . . . . . 45

Installing the Solution in the Rack . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting Up Your MD Storage Solution . . . . . . . 45

Creating Disk Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating Virtual Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Creating a Host Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings . . . . . . 52

Running the PowerVault NASCU . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Installing the PowerVault NASCU . . . . . . . . . 53

Launching the PowerVault NASCU . . . . . . . . . 54

NAS Manager Configuration Wizard . . . . . . . . 64

Accessing the NAS Manager Web Interface . . . 64

PowerVault NAS Manager

Configuration Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

3 Accessing the Dell PowerVault

NAS Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Browser Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

NAS Manager Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Action Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Admin Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Admin Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Search Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

4 Monitoring PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . . . 73

Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Contents 5

Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Capacity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Current Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Network Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Client Network Throughput—Read or Write . . . . 78

Operations Per Second. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Network Aggregated Throughput . . . . . . . . . 78

Load Balancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Over Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Client Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Usage Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

CIFS Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Component Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Space Utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Quota Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Active Remote Replication Jobs . . . . . . . . . . 86

Remote Replication Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

5 Monitoring PowerVault NX3500

Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Event Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Defining Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

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6 Using Volumes, Shares, and Quotas . . . 91

NAS Volumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Usage Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Solution 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Solution 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Solution 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Managing NAS Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Adding a NAS Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Modifying a NAS Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Removing a NAS Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Shares and Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Managing NFS Exports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Managing CIFS Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Setting Access Control Lists and Share Level

Permissions on FluidFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

CIFS Storage Administrator Account . . . . . . . 100

Active Directory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 100

Setting ACLs or SLPs on a CIFS Share . . . . . . 100

Access Using CIFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Configuring CIFS Shares Level Permissions . . . 103

Removing a CIFS Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Resetting Local Administrator Password. . . . . 104

Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Default Quotas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

User or Group Specific Quotas . . . . . . . . . . 105

Quota Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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7 Protecting Data on PowerVault

NX3500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

NAS Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Activating Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Setting Up a Replication Partner . . . . . . . . . . 110

Adding a Replication Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Managing Replication Policies . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Deleting a Replication Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Removing a Replication Partner . . . . . . . . . . 111

Managing Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Snapshots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Activating Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Creating a Snapshot (Without a Policy) . . . . . . 112

Adding or Modifying a Snapshot Policy . . . . . . 112

Accessing Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Restoring Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Restoring a NAS Volume From a Snapshot . . . . 113

Deleting a Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Backing Up and Restoring Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Supported Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Enabling NDMP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Changing NDMP Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Modifying DMA Servers List . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Specifying NAS Volume for Backup . . . . . . . . 118

Displaying Active NDMP Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Terminating an Active NDMP Job . . . . . . . . . 118

NDMP Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Using Antivirus Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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Supported Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Adding Antivirus Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Enabling Antivirus Support Per CIFS Share . . . 120

8 Managing the PowerVault NX3500 . . . . 121

Managing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Managing Client Access. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Viewing the Defined Subnets . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Modifying a Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Removing a Subnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Managing Administrator Users . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Adding an Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Changing the Administrator’s Password . . . . . 125

Modifying an Administrator. . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Modifying an Administrator's

E-Mail Filter Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Removing an Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Managing Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Adding Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Modifying Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Deleting Local Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Changing the Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Managing Local Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Adding a Local Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Modifying a Local Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Deleting a Local Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Configuring an Identity Management

Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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Enabling User Authentication Through

an NIS Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Enabling User Authentication Through

an LDAP Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Disabling the Use of an External UNIX

Identity Management Database . . . . . . . . . . 132

Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Synchronizing PowerVault NX3500 With

the Active Directory Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Configuring the Active Directory Service . . . . . 133

Network Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Accessing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Performance and Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . 134

Configuring DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Adding DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Removing DNS Servers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Adding DNS Domains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Deleting DNS Domains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Managing Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Adding Static Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Modifying a Static Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Deleting a Static Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Defining File System Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Configuring CIFS Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Configuring General CIFS Parameters . . . . . . . 138

Configuring Advanced CIFS Parameters . . . . . . 139

Configuring System Time Parameters . . . . . . . . . . 140

Changing the Time Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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Manually Configuring the Current Date

and Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Removing an NTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Synchronizing PowerVault NX3500 With

a Local NTP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

9 Maintaining the PowerVault NX3500 . . . 143

Shutting Down the PowerVault NX3500 System. . . . 143

Turning On the PowerVault NX3500 Solution . . . . . 144

Installing the Service Pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Expanding the PowerVault NX3500

Storage Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Adding LUNs to PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . . . 147

Running Diagnostics on PowerVault . . . . . . . . . 148

Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Offline Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Reinstalling the PowerVault NX3500 . . . . . . . . . 150

Replacing a PowerVault NX3500 Controller. . . . . . 151

Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Detaching the PowerVault NX3500

Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Removing and Replacing the PowerVault

NX3500 Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Attaching the PowerVault NX3500

Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

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