storage system inoperable,
137
storage system overloaded,
137
volume availability and,
137
availability of volumes and snapshots,
23
,
25
,
137
Availability tab,
23
,
25
available system pool,
103
B
backing out
of Remote Copy evaluation,
227
of scripting evaluation,
228
bandwidth, changing local settings,
113
base DN for Active Directory,
80
best practice
Active Directory,
80
frame size,
48
link aggregation dynamic mode,
52
network,
45
NIC bonds,
61
number of managers in management group,
118
recommended numbers for management group storage
items,
108
setting volume size,
142
speed and duplex settings,
47
using snapshots for protection against data deletion,
162
Best Practice Summary
cluster-level data protection,
110
customizing on SAN Status Page,
83
disk level data protection,
110
disk protection using RAID,
110
disk RAID consistency,
110
large single-system SATA cluster,
110
monitoring on SAN Status Page,
82
network bond consistency,
111
network bonding,
111
network flow control consistency,
111
network frame size consistency,
111
overview,
109
systems running managers,
111
volume access,
111
volume-level data protection,
111
bind user name,
79
bladesystems,
21
block device, iSCSI as,
152
block storage system,
152
bonds
network interface,
52
using 1 GbE and 10 GbE interfaces,
53
with 10 GbE interfaces,
52
boot devices
checking status of dedicated,
26
dedicated,
26
status of dedicated,
27
Boot Devices tab,
26
boot volume,
207
BOOTP,
51
C
capacity
clusters,
132
clusters and usable space in,
151
disk capacity and volume size,
152
monitoring on SAN Status Page,
83
of the SAN,
141
planning thin provisioning,
142
planning volume size,
141
planning, full provisioning,
142
storage systems,
132
capacity management
and deleting snapshots,
148
and scheduled snapshots,
148
,
166
monitoring SAN for,
148
viewing SAN capacity and usage,
148
volume size and snapshots,
148
caution
logging into management group,
106
Centralized Management Console
setting up for remote support,
20
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol see CHAP
changing
administrative group description,
78
changing RAID erases data,
33
cluster configuration,
133
clusters, for volumes,
159
data protection levels,
160
DNS domain name,
68
host names,
22
IP address of storage system,
51
local bandwidth,
113
maintenance mode to normal,
115
management groups,
113
network configuration,
46
order of NTP server access,
74
snapshots,
166
thresholds in a snapshot,
166
user password,
76
volume descriptions,
159
volume size,
160
CHAP
1-way,
234
2-way,
234
editing,
199
iSCSI,
234
not required,
198
required,
198
requirements for configuring,
199
,
235
terminology in different initiators,
235
using,
234
volumes and,
234
characteristics of SmartClone volumes,
181
checklist for disk replacement,
42
choosing a RAID configuration,
28
clearing
statistics sample data,
222
client access to volumes,
16
clients, adding SNMP,
92
269