- 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
Understanding iSCSI
Unisphere provides monitoring and management for Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) directors, iSCSI ports, iSCSI endpoints, IP interfaces, and IP routes.
iSCSI is a protocol that uses the TCP to transport SCSI commands, enabling the use of the existing TCP/IP networking infrastructure as a SAN. As with SCSI over Fibre Channel (FC), iSCSI presents SCSI endpoints and devices to iSCSI initiators (requesters). Unlike NAS, which presents devices at the file level, iSCSI makes block devices available from the network. Block devices are presented across an IP network to your local system, and can be consumed in the same way as any other block storage device.
The iSCSI changes address the market needs originating from cloud or service provider space, where a slice of infrastructure, for example, computes, network and storage, is assigned to different users (tenants). Control and isolation of resources in this environment is achieved by the iSCSI changes. Also, more traditional IT enterprise environments also benefit from this new functionality. The changes also provide greater scalability and security.
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\