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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.
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.
- View system hardware
  Hardware (directors and ports) can be viewed for a storage system.
  - Understanding OR Directors
    Unisphere supports the display of OR director information.
  - View OR directors
    Unisphere supports the display of OR director information.
  - View volumes associated with OR director
    A storage volume is an identifiable unit of data storage. Storage groups are sets of volumes.
  - Manage Protocol for OR director
    Unisphere supports the display of OR director information.
  - View EM directors
    Unisphere supports the display of EM director information.
  - View available ports
    Unisphere supports the display of port information.
  - View back-end directors
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View back-end director details
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View external directors
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View external director details
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View system front-end directors
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View system front-end director details
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View SRDF directors
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View SRDF director details
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View SRDF director SRDF groups
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View SRDF director IP Interfaces
    Unisphere supports the display of SRDF director IP interfaces.
  - View IM directors
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View EDS directors
    Unisphere supports the display of director information.
  - View mapped front-end volumes
    Unisphere supports the display of mapped front-end volumes.
  - Enginuity Warning dialog box
    The Enginuity Warning dialog box displays when one or more storage systems on which you have admin rights is running an Enginuity version below the minimum suggested version. In this case, you should contact your service provider to schedule an upgrade.
  - Associate directors with ports
    Directors and ports can be associated.
  - Set director port attributes
    Unisphere supports the setting of director port attributes.
  - Associate directors and ports
    Unisphere supports the association of directors and ports.
  - Disassociate directors and ports
    Unisphere supports the disassociation of directors and ports.
  - Enable and disable director ports
    Ports on a director can be enabled or disabled.
  - Perform system health checks
    System health checks are used to check the general state of a storage system.
  - View SAN health information
    The SAN Health Report view and the Fabric Performance Impact Notifications (FPINs) view allow the user to determine the health of their storage network.
  - Assign custom names to storage systems
    Unisphere supports the ability to assign custom names to storage systems.
  - Configure an IP interface for OR or RE ports
    Unisphere supports the ability to configure an IP interface for OR or RE ports.
  - Set CPU I/O resource distribution
    Unisphere supports the ability to set parameters to control mixed I/O workloads on an SRDF director.
  - View EF directors
    Unisphere supports the display of EF director information.
  - Configure system bay LED state
    The system bay LED state can be configured on selected bays, in order to aid in locating them.
- View Storage System details
  Storage system details provide information of storage system settings.
- View management server resources
  Unisphere supports the display of server details and Unisphere REST API details.
- Understanding eNAS
  Embedded NAS (eNAS) integrates the file-based storage capabilities of VNX arrays into storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978.
- Understanding iSCSI
  Unisphere provides monitoring and management for Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) directors, iSCSI ports, iSCSI endpoints, IP interfaces, and IP routes.
- Understanding NVMe/TCP
  Unisphere provides monitoring and management for NVMe/TCP directors, NVMe/TCP ports, NVMe/TCP endpoints, IP interfaces, and IP routes.
- Understanding PowerMax File for storage systems
  Network-attached storage is a file-level storage architecture that makes stored data more accessible to networked devices.
- View the audit log
  The storage system audit records include all actions that are taken on that storage system.
- View product version information
  Unisphere supports the display of the product version information.
- View cache partitions
  Cache Partitioning divides the cache memory into multiple partitions with unique names and their device path assignments.
- Configure D@RE
  Data at Rest Encryption (D@RE) protects data confidentiality by adding back-end encryption to the entire storage system. Unisphere supports the entry and validation of D@RE external key security certificates.
- Configure remote machine table targets
  Unisphere supports the ability to configure remote machine table targets.
- View remote machine table
  Unisphere supports the viewing and management of remote machine table entities.
- The Emulation Management wizard
  The Emulation Management wizard can be used to add and remove director emulations.
- View physical view
  Unisphere supports the display of the physical view for a storage system.
- Replace faulted SFP
  Unisphere for PowerMax supports a small form-factor pluggable component (SFP) replacement policy. This policy specifies whether it is the customer or Customer Support that is responsible for the replacement of SFPs.
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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System Management
System Management covers Unisphere for PowerMax support for the management of system functionality, for example, hardware and system properties.
View system hardware
Hardware (directors and ports) can be viewed for a storage system.

View system hardware

Hardware (directors and ports) can be viewed for a storage system.

By selecting a storage system and clicking System > Hardware, you can view directors and available ports.