- 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 PowerMax File for storage systems
Network-attached storage is a file-level storage architecture that makes stored data more accessible to networked devices.
A storage system running PowerMaxOS 10 (6079) with embedded Unisphere supports software-defined network-attached storage (PowerMax File).
PowerMax File support a file services architecture that provides a reliable, high performance, highly available, and highly scalable system. PowerMax File runs as a container instance inside each file guest offering based on the customer configuration.
Unisphere in the Embedded Element Manger (EEM) manages a single instance of PowerMax File that is present locally. The Unisphere that is installed on an external host does not manage any PowerMax File instances.
PowerMax File uses virtualized Network-Attached Storage (NAS) servers that use the SMB, NFS, and FTP protocols to catalog, organize, and transfer files within file system shares and exports.
A NAS server, the basis for multi-tenancy, must be created before you can create file-level storage resources. NAS servers are responsible for the configuration parameters on the set of file systems that it serves.
Network File System (NFS) is an access protocol that enables users to access files and folders on a network. You can create an NFS export to make file system paths on your storage system available for mounting by NFS clients.
Server Message Block (SMB) is an access protocol that allows remote file data access from clients to hosts on a network. An SMB share, also known as an SMB file share, is a shared resource on an SMB server.
VLAN and Jumbo frames are supported for File services.
Services such as anti-virus, scheduled snapshots, and Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backups ensure that the data on the file systems is well protected.
Common Event Enablers (CEE) is an externally deployable software from Dell (primarily on Windows). This software has two packages - Common anti-virus Agent (CAVA) and Common Event Publishing Agent (CEPA). CAVA provides an anti-virus solution to clients using a NAS server. It uses an industry-standard SMB protocol in a Windows Server environment. CAVA uses third-party anti-virus software to identify and eliminate known viruses before they infect files on the storage system. The CEE CEPA ecosystem consists of dozens of applications that are designed to process SMB and NFS file and directory event notifications.
The high-level sequence of tasks to configure PowerMax File for storage systems running
PowerMaxOS 10 (6079) is as follows:
- Configure subnets (subnet configuration is required in order to create a NAS server).
- Create NAS server (a NAS server is required in order to create a file system).
- Create File Systems (file systems enable you to partition data for your users).
- Protect File Systems (optionally protect file system data using snapshots or replication).
The detailed sequence of tasks to configure PowerMax File is as follows:
- View node inventory (under System > File Configuration> Node Inventory tab).
- Configure subnets. Create and configure bond devices (under System > File Configuration> Network Devices tab).
- Create and configure NAS servers (under
Storage > File). Other properties and controls that are associated with NAS servers are in the following tabs:
- Details
- Network > File Interface
- Network > Routes to external services
- Sharing Protocols > SMB Server
- Sharing Protocols > NFS Server
- Sharing Protocols > FTP
- Sharing Protocols > User Mapping
- Naming services > DNS
- Naming services > UDS
- Naming services > Local Files
- Security > Antivirus
- Security > Kerberos
- Data protection > Snapshot policy
- Data protection > Replication
- Backup & Events > NDMP—You can configure standard backup for the NAS servers using Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP). NDMP provides a standard for backing up file servers on a network.
- Backup & Events > DHSM—Distributed Hierarchical Storage Management (DHSM) supports file based archiving.
- Backup & Events > Events pool
- Nodes
- Create and configure file systems (under
Storage > File). Other properties and controls that are associated with file systems are in the following tabs :
- Details
- Snapshots—Snapshots can be used for restoring individual files or the entire file system back to a previous point in time.
- User Quotas—Quota management allows you to place limits on the amount of space that can be consumed in order to regulate file system storage consumption. User quotas are set at a file system level and limit the amount of space a user may consume on a file system.
- Tree Quotas—Quota management allows you to place limits on the amount of space that can be consumed in order to regulate file system storage consumption. Quota trees limit the maximum size of a directory on a file system. Unlike user quotas, which are applied and tracked on a user-by-user basis, quota trees are applied to directories within the file system.
- File Level Retention—When a snapshot is created, it can be configured to have no automatic deletion or retention until a specific date and time. If retention is set, the snapshot is automatically deleted upon reaching the retention date. This does not prevent the snapshot from being deleted before the retention date.
- Create and configure SMB Shares (under Storage > File > SMB Shares).
- Create and configure NFS Exports (under Storage > File > NFS exports). You can create an NFS export to make file system paths on your storage system available for mounting by NFS clients.
- Create Global Namespaces (under Storage > File > Global Namespaces).
- Create and configure snapshot policies (under Data Protection > File Protection> Snapshot policies).
- Create and configure replication (under
Data Protection > File Protection > Replication. Properties and controls that are associated with replication are:
- File control network
- Remote connection
- Replication sessions
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