Datasheet

SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
DELL POWER SOLUTIONS Re
p
rinted from Dell Power Solutions,
F
ebruary 2007. Copyright © 2007 Dell Inc. All rights reserve
d
.
F
e
b
ruar
y
2007
2
M
ana
g
er StartupUI; in Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, they
can
d
o so
b
y se
l
ecting Start>System>More Programs>De
ll
SAS
RAID Stora
g
e Mana
g
er.
Understandin
g
the Dell
S
A
S
RAID
S
tora
g
e Mana
g
er interfac
e
When the login window appears a
f
ter launching Dell SAS RSM,
a
d
ministrators enter t
h
eir username an
d
passwor
d
an
d
se
l
ect
either Full Access mode
(
which enables both viewin
g
and chan
g-
i
ng configurations) or View Access mode (which enables only
v
iewin
g
and monitorin
g
con
f
i
g
urations
)
f
rom the drop-down
menu. If the computer is networked, administrators should enter
t
he lo
g
in in
f
ormation
f
or the computer itsel
f
, not the network.
U
sing Fu
ll
Access mo
d
e requires t
h
e root a
d
ministrator username
and password.
Af
ter login, Dell SAS RSM automatically detects and displays
th
e system’s storage contro
ll
ers, p
h
ysica
l
d
rives, an
d
virtua
l
d
is
k
s.
T
he a
pp
lication’s main window includes three
p
anels: a le
f
t
p
anel
s
h
owing t
h
e system
d
evices, a rig
h
t pane
l
s
h
owing a
dd
itiona
l
d
etai
l
s
about a particular device, and a bottom panel showin
g
system
event
l
og entries.
The le
f
t panel presents either a physical or lo
g
ical view o
f
the
system an
d
d
evices,
d
epen
d
ing on t
h
e se
l
ecte
d
ta
b
. T
h
e P
h
ysica
l
t
ab shows the hierarchy of physical devices; stora
g
e controllers are
enumerated with the disk drives and other devices attached to the
p
orts. The Logical tab shows the hierarchy of controllers, virtual
disks, and disk
g
roups.
The right panel includes three tabs, with different tabs displayed
dependin
g
on the type o
f
device selected in the le
f
t panel and the
l
ogin mo
d
e:
•
Pro
p
ert
i
es: This tab dis
p
la
y
s in
f
ormation about the selected
device. For example, if a controller is selected, this tab shows
in
f
ormation such as the controller name
,
nonvolatile RAM
(
NVRAM) size, and number of device ports
.
•
Op
erations
:
This tab lists the o
p
erations that can be
p
er-
f
ormed on the selected device. Dell SAS RSM only displays
t
hi
s
tab
in F
u
ll A
ccess
m
ode.
•
G
rap
h
ica
l
View: This tab displays a color-coded view of the
selected device’s stora
g
e capacity
(
see Fi
g
ure 1
)
. Dell SAS RSM
onl
y
dis
p
la
y
s this tab
f
or
p
h
y
sical drives and virtual disks.
The bottom panel displays the system event log entries, includ
-
i
n
g
t
h
e ID num
b
er, an error
l
eve
l
in
d
icatin
g
event severity, t
h
e
d
ate
and time, and a brie
f
descri
p
tion
.
M
anag
i
ng v
i
rtua
l
di
s
ks
T
he Dell SAS RSM Configuration Wizard enables administrators
t
o create new virtual disk con
f
i
g
urations on the PERC 5/i and the
S
AS 5/iR wit
h
out re
b
ooting t
h
e systems. It inc
l
u
d
es t
h
ree mo
d
es
f
or the PERC 5
/
i:
•
A
uto Con
f
iguration
:
O
f
the three modes, this one
p
rovides the
q
uickest and simplest way to create a new storage configura-
tion. Usin
g
the available physical disks, the wizard creates the
op
tima
l
virtua
l
d
is
k
wit
h
minima
l
a
d
ministrator intervention
.
•
Guided Con
f
i
g
uration: This mode creates a new stora
g
e con-
f
iguration based on a series o
f
queries. The wizard uses the
i
nformation provided by the administrator to create an opti
-
m
al stora
g
e con
f
i
g
uration usin
g
the available physical disks
.
•
Manual Confi
g
uration
:
Thi
s
m
ode
i
s
t
h
e
m
ost
fl
e
xi
b
l
e
of
the three, but is desi
g
ned
f
or advanced users with in-depth
k
nowledge of storage configurations
.
S
aving and adding virtual disk configurations
I
n addition to creatin
g
new confi
g
urations, administrators can import
existing con
f
igurations to help prevent virtual disks
f
rom being lost
when migrating physical disks or to help simplify configuration o
f
a new controller. They can use Dell SAS RSM to save an existin
g
configuration to disk by performing the following steps:
1.
S
elect a controller in the left panel of the application’s main
window, then select Operations>Advanced Operations
>
C
on
f
iguration>Save Con
f
iguration in the menu bar.
2. In the Save dialo
g
box, enter a name for the confi
g
uration
f
ile
,
then click the Save button
.
Administrators can import a saved con
f
i
g
uration as
f
ollows
:
1. Select a controller in the le
f
t
p
anel o
f
the a
pp
lication’s main
win
d
ow, t
h
en se
l
ect Operations>A
d
vance
d
Operations
>
C
on
f
i
g
uration>Add Saved Con
f
i
g
uration in the menu bar.
2. A message
b
ox
d
isp
l
ays a warning t
h
at unsta
bl
e con
d
itions
m
ay arise from differences in physical devices in two confi
g
u
-
r
ations. Click the Yes button
.
F
i
g
ure 1. Viewin
g
physical disk stora
g
e in the Dell
S
A
S
RAID
S
tora
g
e Mana
g
er
G
raphical View ta
b