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Md3200i How To Map Host To Virtual Disk
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Related Dell PowerVault MD3200i Manual Pages
Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in User’s
Guide - Page 4
... Scheme to Make LUN Decisions 29 Using the Adaptive Scheme to Make LUN Decisions 30
Creating a Virtual Disk 30
Creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk 31 Disabling and Re-creating Snapshots 32
Creating a Virtual Disk Copy 33
Mapping a Virtual Disk 35
Datastores View 38
Storage Array Event Log 39
Troubleshooting 40 Application Server Logs 40 Common Errors 41 Maximize Client Performance 42...
Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in User’s
Guide - Page 35
... host, click the Add Mapping link to the ESX host for use the Mappings tab to present the virtual disks to start the Add Mapping wizard. Figure 24. This action removes the Virtual Disk Copy relationship between the two virtual disks, but does not modify or delete the target virtual disk that is established, it may be managed from the source virtual disk. Dell MD Storage...
Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in User’s
Guide - Page 44
... fail, however.
Any changes to from the Plug-In and set the
the storage array from PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager, the storage array must be erroneous. The Plug-In does not reflect the name change . If the default host group virtual
no virtual disks are mapped disks from services.msc window.
Include
all information and details when
troubleshooting these errors...
CLI Guide - Page 63
...-in-time image of your host operating system for creating snapshot virtual disks. This ensures that contains unreadable sectors. • You must first map the snapshot virtual disk to the secondary node, see the Dell PowerVault MD3200 and MD3220 Storage Arrays With Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clusters or Dell PowerVault MD3200i and MD3220i Storage Arrays With Microsoft Windows Server...
CLI Guide - Page 89
... disks cannot be a standard virtual disk in a host I/O error.
Using the Virtual Disk Copy Feature
89 CAUTION: Before using the source virtual disk of a virtual disk. Hosts that have been mapped to a target virtual disk do not have write access to the data on the target virtual disk, use the set virtualDiskCopy command to disable the read -only to hosts to virtual disks in the storage...
CLI Guide - Page 169
... (bytes, KB, MB, or GB) for example, 60080E500017B4320000000049887D77. For information about the segmentSize parameter, see "Using the Auto Configure Command" on or turn off allocating virtual disk storage capacity for future segment size changes. Script Commands
169 Enclose the identifier in double quotation marks (" "). RAID level of the...
Owner's Manual - Page 39
... this information to associate the virtual disks with the host servers. RAID Controller Physical Disk States (continued)
Status Offline Identify
N/A
Mode
Description
Physical Disk Status LED
Not applicable The physical disk has either been spun Flashing Green
down or had a rebuild aborted by a physical disk. Table 4-1.
Planning: MD3200i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts
39
Owner's Manual - Page 48
... one array to another , the MD3200i array you migrate to, recognizes any device other than a MD3200i Series Storage Array, the MD3200i array does not recognize the migrating metadata and that have all member physical disks present can move virtual disks from one slot to performing the disk migration. NOTE: The number of physical disks and virtual disks that are being migrated must...
Owner's Manual - Page 50
... card is either online or powered off. The RAID controller module automatically recognizes the relocated physical disks and logically places them in the storage array.
50
Planning: MD3200i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts If you configure host server-to -virtual disk mapping.
When you have this functionality. • Enabling premium features before moving the physical...
Owner's Manual - Page 57
... of the arrays: 1 Open MDSM and select the appropriate storage array. 2 Open the Array Management Window (AMW) for the selected storage arrays in the table.
5 Click Start. Planning: MD3200i Series Storage Array Terms and Concepts
57 You can monitor:
• RAID Controller modules • Virtual disks • Storage array totals NOTE: By default, all items are monitoring...
Owner's Manual - Page 93
...) software is comprised of these modules is the Host Context Agent. The host topology is one of virtual disks in a storage array. The host context agent is running on a host, that access the virtual disks in the AMW, the Hosts & Mappings area indicates how many hosts are automatically detected by Dell™ PowerVault™ Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) and appear on page 94...
Owner's Manual - Page 126
... number of LUNs available. • You can be mapped to only one host or
host group. • Host-to-virtual disk mappings are shared between controllers in the storage array can define the mappings on page 136. See "Using the Mappings Tab" on page 94. Host-to-Virtual Disk Mapping
After you create virtual disks, you try to map a virtual disk to a LUN that is not required for an...
Owner's Manual - Page 132
... Add button is unavailable. • Do not configure dual mappings on these mapping restrictions. If you try to map a virtual disk to a LUN that storage partition are limited to access the virtual disk. For example, if the Default Group had two virtual disks mapped to LUNs 254 and 255, the host with a restricted host type that is unable to the maximum number of...
Owner's Manual - Page 136
...8226; All mappings are defined.
136
Configuration: Disk Groups and Virtual Disks Storage Partitioning
A storage partition is a logical entity consisting of one or more virtual disks that can use the Storage Partitioning Wizard to all of the virtual disks in the storage array. • All attached hosts share access to define a single storage partition. Subsequent virtual disk mappings to...
Owner's Manual - Page 141
... Persistent reservations • Host-to-virtual disk mappings • Virtual disk copy pairs • Snapshot virtual disks and snapshot repository virtual disks • Remote mirror ... procedure: • Persistent reservations • Mappings • Virtual disk copy pairs • Snapshot virtual disks and snapshot repository virtual disks
Storage Array Media Scan
The media scan is reported...
Owner's Manual - Page 147
... failing write activity to the Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i Storage Arrays With Microsoft® Windows Server® Failover Clusters on the source virtual disk or an inaccessible snapshot. This, in turn, can result in data loss on support.dell.com/manuals. NOTE: Mapping the snapshot virtual disk to the node that does not own the...
Owner's Manual - Page 151
..." on support.dell.com/manuals. Configuration: Premium Feature-Snapshot Virtual Disks
151 NOTE: For details on mapping the snapshot virtual disk to the secondary node, refer to the Dell™ PowerVault™ MD3200i and MD3220i Storage Arrays With Microsoft® Windows Server® Failover Clusters on page 149). Preparing Host Servers to Create the Snapshot Using the Advanced Path...
Owner's Manual - Page 178
... software: 1 Map the host server to the MD3200i Series storage array 2 Create the Virtual Disks 3 Map newly created arrays to your network.
NOTE: Red Hat install of 5.x requires a remount of the DVD media to create and map virtual disks. Avoid accessing any nodes other than the multipathing device nodes can result in the system to the array.
4 Create and map virtual disks using MDSM...
Owner's Manual - Page 179
... used to indicate where a substitution should be run again to make storage available to the Linux host server:
1 Scan for existing and newly added virtual disks mapped to the host server. # rescan_dm_devs If an array virtual disk (VD) is the letter(s) assigned to the device.
See "Display the multipath device topology using the multipath command" on page 180.
3 Create a partition...
Support Matrix - Page 3
... Device
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√
√
Mapper multi-pathing drivers
are limited to complete. be a physical disk of
equal or greater size than
any of the member disks.
Where
applicable it is a best practice
to specify both management
port IP addresses on the MD
Storage Array, SMcli
commands that change the
attributes of a virtual disk,
virtual disk copy, or snapshot
virtual...
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