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  • Unisphere for PowerMax Quick Start Guide
  • Unisphere for PowerMax administration
  • Storage Management
  • Host Management
  • Data protection management
  • Performance Management
  • VMware Management
  • System Management
  • Serviceability Management
  • System Profiles Management
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  • Unisphere for PowerMax Quick Start Guide

    Unisphere enables the user to configure and manage PowerMax, VMAX All Flash, and VMAX storage systems.

  • Unisphere for PowerMax administration

    Unisphere supports administrative tasks including managing settings and using dashboards to monitor storage systems.

  • Storage Management

    Storage Management covers Unisphere for PowerMax support for the management of storage within one or more storage systems.

    • Manage SRDF storage groups

      As part of the AIOPS Predictive and Prescriptive Remediation initiative, Unisphere for PowerMax provides an overall view of the replication status of a storage group. This view provides a visual and interactive means of monitoring the replication from the viewpoint of an application. The focus is on providing users with sufficient information about each SRDF storage group (the storage group and its configured replication solution) so that they can make informed decisions more quickly and without the need to collate information from throughout Unisphere for PowerMax.

    • Understanding workload monitoring, planning, and provisioning

      Unisphere supports applications that support the monitoring, planning, and provisioning of workloads.

    • Understanding storage groups

      Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

      • Create storage groups

        Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Add volumes to storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Copy volumes between storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Move volumes between storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Remove volumes from storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Storage Group operations

          Unisphere supports storage group operations.

        • Expand PowerProtect Storage Direct storage groups

          PowerProtect Storage Direct integrates the primary storage on storage systems and the protection storage on the Data Domain system.

        • Modify storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Protect Storage Groups wizard

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Convert storage groups to cascaded

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Change Storage Resource Pools for storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Add or remove cascaded storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Delete storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Set host I/O limits

          Host I/O limits (quotas) can be used to limit the amount of Front End (FE) Bandwidth and I/O operations per second (IOPS) that can be consumed by a set of storage volumes over a set of director ports.

        • Split storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Merge storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • View storage groups

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

          • Storage Group details
          • View storage group details

            Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

          • View cascaded storage groups

            Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

          • View volumes

            A storage volume is an identifiable unit of data storage. Storage groups are sets of volumes.

          • View Storage Group Compliance view

            Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

          • View the cloned storage group list (Clone Storage Groups)

            Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

          • View storage group performance details

            Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Select Storage Resource Pool

          This dialog box is used to select a Storage Resource Pool for the operation.

        • Select SSID dialog box

          This dialog box is used to select an SSID for the operation.

        • Task in Progress

          This dialog box is used to monitor the progress of a configuration change operation.

        • SRDF group selection

          SRDF groups provide a collective data transfer path linking volumes of two separate storage systems.

        • Edit storage group volume details

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • Modify Custom Capacity dialog box

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

        • SRDF pairs operations

          SRDF pairs can be added to a storage group or removed from a storage group.

        • Add SRDF pairs to a remote storage group

          Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) facilitates the data replication from one storage array to another through a storage area network or Internet Protocol (IP) network.

        • Remove SRDF pairs from a remote storage group

          Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) facilitates the data replication from one storage array to another through a storage area network or Internet Protocol (IP) network.

        • Understanding data reduction

          Data reduction allows users to reduce user data on storage groups and storage resources.

        • View Storage Group Demand Reports

          Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

    • Understanding service levels

      A service level is the response time target for the storage group. The service level enables you set the storage system with the required response time target for the storage group.

    • Understanding storage templates

      Storage templates are a reusable set of storage requirements that simplify storage management for virtual data centers by eliminating many of the repetitive tasks that are required to create and make storage available to hosts or applications.

    • Understanding Storage Resource Pools

      A Storage Resource Pool is a collection of data pools that are used for capacity and performance management.

    • Understanding disk groups

      A disk group is a collection of hard drives within the storage system that share the same performance characteristics.

    • Understanding volumes

      A storage volume is an identifiable unit of data storage. Storage groups are sets of volumes.

    • Understanding External Storage

      External storage can be attached to a storage system.

    • Manage VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols)

      VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) enables data replication, snapshots, and encryption to be controlled at the VMDK level instead of the LUN level, where these data services are performed on a per VM (application level) basis from the storage system.

  • Host Management

    Storage hosts are systems that use storage system LUN resources. Unisphere manages the hosts.

  • Data protection management

    Data Protection management ensures that data is protected and remains available.

  • Performance Management

    The Unisphere performance management application monitors and manages storage system performance data (Dashboards, Charts, Analyze, Heatmap, Reports, Plan, Real-Time traces, and Performance Database management).

  • VMware Management

    Unisphere supports the discovery of vCenters or ESXi servers (using a read-only user) and integrates the information into Unisphere. VMware information is connected to its storage extents and this information enables seamless investigation of any storage-related issues.

  • System Management

    System Management covers Unisphere for PowerMax support for the management of system functionality, for example, hardware and system properties.

  • Serviceability Management

    Unisphere provides a serviceability application that supports the deployment of update packages for PowerMax embedded applications.

  • System Profiles Management

    A PowerMax software system profile is a subset of system settings that are associated with at least one storage system (array). The settings are defined once as part of a system profile, and these settings can be applied to one or more storage systems.

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  2. Storage Management

    Storage Management covers Unisphere for PowerMax support for the management of storage within one or more storage systems.

  3. Understanding storage groups

    Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array. An application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

  4. Create storage groups

    Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the storage system, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

  5. View storage groups

    Storage groups are a collection of devices that are stored on the array, and an application, a server, or a collection of servers use them.

  6. Storage Group details

Storage Group details

View storage group details on storage systems (see View storage group details).