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Creating a Virtual Disk Copy 87 Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual Disk Copy 87 Copying the Virtual Disk 88 Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy 89 Setting Copy Priority 89 Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy 90 Recopying a Virtual Disk 90 Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a Virtual Disk 91 Recopying the Virtual Disk 92 Removing Copy Pairs 93 9 Firmware Downloads 95 Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM Packages 95 Downloading Both RAID Controller and NVSRAM Firmware 96 Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware 97 Downloading Non-redundant MSCS NVSRAM Firmware 97 Downloading Physical Disk Firmware 98 Downloading EMM Firmware 99 10 Troubleshooting Problems 101 Recovery Guru 101 Storage Array Profile 101 8 Contents

Section	Page
Contents	3
About This Guide	11
User Interface	11
Summary Tab	12
Configure Tab	12
Modify Tab	12
Tools Tab	13
iSCSI Tab	13
Support Tab	13
Other Information You May Need	14
About Your Storage Array	15
Access Virtual Disk	15
Out-of-Band and In-Band Management	16
Adding Storage Arrays	17
Automatic Discovery of Storage Arrays	17
Manual Addition of a Storage Array	17
Naming Storage Arrays	18
Removing Storage Arrays	18
Setting Up Your Storage Array	19
Storage Array Support Data	21
Setting a Password	21
Password Guidelines	22
Resetting a Password	22
Connecting the Serial Cable	22
System Setup for Password Reset	23
Reset Password	24
Changing Expansion Enclosure ID Numbers	25
Configuring Alert Notifications	25
Configuring E-mail Alerts	25
Configuring SNMP Alerts	27
Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software in Windows	28
Starting or Restarting the Host-Agent Software in Linux	28
Using iSCSI	31
Using the iSCSI Tab	31
Changing the iSCSI Target Authentication	32
Entering Mutual Authentication Permissions	32
Creating CHAP Secrets	32
Changing the iSCSI Target Identification	34
Changing the iSCSI Target Discovery	34
Configuring the MD3000i iSCSI Host Ports	35
Advanced iSCSI Host Ports Settings	35
Viewing or Ending an iSCSI Session	36
Viewing iSCSI Statistics and Setting Baseline Statistics	37
Edit, Remove, or Rename Host Topology	38
Event Monitor	41
Enabling the Event Monitor	41
Disabling the Event Monitor	42
About Your Host	43
Configuring Host Access	43
Automatic Configuration	44
Manual Configuration (using SAS HBA)	44
Manual Configuration (using iSCSI)	45
Removing Host Access	46
Host Groups	47
Creating a Host Group	47
Adding a Host to a Host Group	47
Removing a Host From a Host Group	48
Moving a Host to a Different Host Group	48
Removing a Host Group	49
Host Topology	49
Host Context Agent	50
I/O Data Path Protection	51
Failover with Red Hat Enterprise Linux	51
Disk Groups and Virtual Disks	53
Creating Disk Groups and Virtual Disks	54
Automatic Configuration	55
Manual Configuration	55
Hot Spare Drive Protection	58
Automatically Configuring Hot Spares	58
Manually Configuring Hot Spares	59
Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping	60
Creating Host-to-Virtual Disk Mappings	60
Modifying and Removing Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping	60
Changing Controller Ownership of the Virtual Disk	61
Storage Partitioning	61
Disk Group and Virtual Disk Expansion	62
Disk Group Expansion	62
Virtual Disk Expansion	62
Storage Array Media Scan	63
Changing Media Scan Settings	63
Suspending the Media Scan	64
Microsoft Services	64
Virtual Disk Service	64
Volume Shadow-Copy Service	65
Premium Feature-Snapshot Virtual Disks	67
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Simple Path	68
About the Simple Path	68
Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Simple Path	69
Creating the Snapshot Using the Simple Path	71
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk Using the Advanced Path	73
About the Advanced Path	73
Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path	74
Creating the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path	76
Specifying Snapshot Virtual Disk Names	78
Snapshot Repository Capacity	79
Re-creating Snapshot Virtual Disks	80
Disabling a Snapshot Virtual Disk	80
Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk	81
Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk	82
Premium Feature-Virtual Disk Copy	83
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy for an MSCS Shared Disk	84
Virtual Disk Read/Write Permissions	85
Virtual Disk Copy Restrictions	86
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy	87
Preparing Host Servers to Create a Virtual Disk Copy	87
Copying the Virtual Disk	88
Storage Array Performance During Virtual Disk Copy	89
Setting Copy Priority	89
Stopping a Virtual Disk Copy	90
Recopying a Virtual Disk	90
Preparing Host Servers to Recopy a Virtual Disk	91
Recopying the Virtual Disk	92
Removing Copy Pairs	93
Firmware Downloads	95
Downloading RAID Controller and NVSRAM Packages	95
Downloading Both RAID Controller and NVSRAM Firmware	96
Downloading Only NVSRAM Firmware	97
Downloading Non-redundant MSCS NVSRAM Firmware	97
Downloading Physical Disk Firmware	98
Downloading EMM Firmware	99
Troubleshooting Problems	101
Recovery Guru	101
Storage Array Profile	101
Device Health Conditions	101
SMrepassist Utility	102
Support Information Package	103
Unidentified Devices	104
Recovering from an Unidentified Storage Array	104
Enclosure Hardware Replacement, Maintenance, and Configuration Considerations	107
Removing and Inserting Enclosure Management Modules on Attached Expansion Enclosures	107
Removing an EMM from the Expansion Enclosure	107
Inserting an EMM into an Expansion Enclosure	107
Removing and Inserting Physical Disks	108
MD3000 Maintenance Considerations	108
MD3000 Cluster Configuration Guidelines for Standalone Host Servers	109