- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Overview of Unisphere
- Functionality supported by each OS type
- Capacity information
- Understanding resource usage
- Login authentication
- Understanding the system health score
- Manage jobs
- Unisphere for PowerMax alert monitoring recommendations
- Alerts
- Server alerts
- Understanding licenses
- Understanding user authorization
- Individual and group roles
- Roles
- User IDs
- Roles and associated permissions
- Roles for performing local and remote replication actions
- RBAC roles for SRDF local and remote replication actions
- RBAC roles for TimeFinder SnapVX local and remote replication actions
- Storage Management
- Understanding storage groups
- Understanding data reduction
- Understanding service levels
- Performance Impact
- Understanding storage templates
- Understanding Storage Resource Pools
- Understanding volumes
- Understanding disk groups
- Host Management
- Understanding hosts
- Understanding masking views
- Understanding port groups
- Understanding initiators
- Understanding PowerPath hosts
- Understanding mainframe management
- Data protection management
- Understanding Snapshot policy
- Understanding SRDF/Metro Smart DR
- Manage remote replication sessions
- Understanding SRDF groups
- Understanding migration
- Understanding Virtual Witness
- Understanding Open Replicator
- Open Replicator session options
- Understanding device groups
- Understanding TimeFinder/Mirror sessions
- Understanding TimeFinder SnapVX
- Understanding Performance Management
- Understanding Unisphere support for VMware
- Understanding eNAS
- Understanding iSCSI
- Understanding NVMe/TCP
- Understanding PowerMax File for storage systems
- Understanding serviceability
- Understanding PowerMax software system profiles and compliance
- Unisphere for PowerMax localized for Japanese market
- Where to get help
Dell Unisphere for PowerMax 10.0.1 Product Guide
Overview of Unisphere
Unisphere enables the user to configure and manage PowerMax, VMAX All Flash, and VMAX storage systems.
Unisphere is a HTML5 web-based application that enables you to configure and manage PowerMax, VMAX All Flash, and VMAX storage systems.
In the case of embedded deployment, Unisphere 10.0 runs embedded on PowerMax 2500 or PowerMax 8500 only. External deployment is required for storage systems running code levels below PowerMaxOS 10 (6079).
The side panel has the following items when the
Overview view is selected:
- Overview—View overview of the status of all storage systems being managed by Unisphere for PowerMax
- System—View home dashboard view for all storage systems
- Performance—Monitors and manages storage system performance data (Dashboards, Charts, Analyze, Heatmap, Reports, Plan, Real-Time traces, and Performance Database management). See Understanding Performance Management for more information.
- VMware—Views all the relevant storage-related objects at an ESXi server and helps troubleshooting storage performance-related issues at the ESXi server. See Understanding Unisphere support for VMware for more information.
- Configuration-Allows the viewing and configuration of system profiles and provisioning templates.
- Events—Includes Alerts and Job List.
NOTE: For additional information about event and alerts, see the Events and Alerts for PowerMax and VMAX Users Guide.
- Support—Displays support information.
The side panel has the following items when the storage system-specific view is selected:
- Overview—View overview of the status of all storage systems being managed by Unisphere for PowerMax
- Dashboard—View the following dashboards for a selected storage system: System Health, Storage Group (SG) compliance, Capacity, Performance, and Protection
- Storage—Manage storage (storage groups, service levels, storage resource pools, volumes, external storage, PowerMax File, and vVol dashboard). See Storage Management for more information.
- Hosts—Manage hosts (hosts, masking views, port groups, initiators, PowerPath, mainframe, and CU images). See Host Management for more information.
- Data Protection—Manage data protection (snapshot policies, MetroDR, SRDF groups, migrations, virtual witness, open replicator, PowerMax File, and device groups). See Data protection management for more information.
- Performance—Monitors and manages storage system performance data (Dashboards, Charts, Analyze, Heatmap, Reports, and Plan). See Understanding Performance Management for more information.
- System—Includes Hardware, System Properties, File (eNAS), Cloud, iSCSI, iSCSI+NVMe, and PowerMax File.
- Events—Includes Alerts, Job List, and Audit log.
NOTE: For additional information about event and alerts, see the Events and Alerts for PowerMax and VMAX Users Guide.
- Support—Displays support information.
The following options are available from the title bar:
- View and configure settings
- View newly added features.
- Discover systems
- Refresh system information.
- Search for objects
- View and manage jobs.
- View and manage alerts.
- View and manage settings
- View profile
- Sign out
- View online help
A Unisphere Representational State Transfer (REST) API is also available. The API enables you to access diagnostic, performance and configuration data, and also enables you to perform provisioning operations on the storage system.
Information on the installation of Unisphere for PowerMax can be found in the Unisphere for PowerMax Installation Guide at the Dell support website.
For information specific to this Unisphere product release, see the Unisphere for PowerMax Release Notes at the Dell support website.
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