Preface
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Contact your Dell EMC technical support professional if a product does not function properly or does not function as described in this document.
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Purpose
This document is part of the VPLEX documentation set, and includes conceptual information about managing your VPLEX system.
Audience
This guide is intended for use by customers and service providers to configure and manage a storage environment.
Related Documentation
Contains document titles for the appliance document set. Related documents (available on Dell EMC Online Support and
Solve) include:
- VPLEX Release Notes for GeoSynchrony Releases
- VPLEX Product Guide
- VPLEX Hardware Environment Setup Guide
- VPLEX Configuration Worksheet
- VPLEX Configuration Guide
- VPLEX Security Configuration Guide
- VPLEX CLI Reference Guide
- VPLEX Administration Guide
- Unisphere for VPLEX Help
- VPLEX Element Manager API Guide Version 2 (REST API v2)
- VPLEX Open-Source Licenses
- VPLEX GPL3 Open-Source Licenses
- Procedures provided through the SolVe Desktop
- Dell EMC Host Connectivity Guides
- Dell EMC VPLEX Hardware Installation Guide
- Various best practice technical notes available on Dell EMC Online Support
Typographical conventions
Table 1. Typographical conventions used Dell EMC uses the following type style conventions in this document:
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Description
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Used for names of interface elements, such as names of windows, dialog boxes, buttons, fields, tab names, key names, and menu paths (what the user specifically selects or clicks).
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Italic
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Used for full titles of publications referenced in text
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| Monospace
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Used for:
- System code
- System output, such as an error message or script
- Pathnames, filenames, prompts, and syntax
- Commands and options
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| Monospace italic
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Used for variables
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Monospace bold
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Used for user input
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| [ ]
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Square brackets enclose optional values.
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Vertical bar indicates alternate selections - the bar means
"or".
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| { }
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Braces enclose content that the user must specify, such as x or y or z.
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| ...
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Ellipses indicate nonessential information that is omitted from the example.
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