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Unisphere for PowerMax Quick Start Guide
Unisphere for PowerMax administration
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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.
- Capacity information
  Unisphere supports measurement of capacity using both the base 2 (binary) and base 10 (decimal) systems.
- Operate as the initial setup user
  An Initial Setup User (ISU) user can perform administrative tasks only on storage systems that do not have defined roles (authorization rules).
- Login authentication
  Unisphere authenticates users attempting to access the system.
- View Unisphere for PowerMax overview page
  The Overview page contains an overview of the Health, Alerts, Capacity, Updates, Performance, and CloudIQ status of the arrays connected to Unisphere.
- View dashboard view for all storage systems
  The home dashboard view for all storage systems provides an overall view of the status of all storage systems that Unisphere manages in terms of compliance, capacity, health score, throughput, IOPS, efficiency, and CloudIQ connectivity.
- View home dashboard view for a specific storage system
  The home dashboard view for a specific storage system provides a view of its status in terms of performance, system health, storage group compliance, capacity, and replication.
- View performance and capacity dashboard for a specific storage system
  The performance and capacity dashboard for a specific storage system provides a view of key performance and capacity indicators.
- View the System Health Dashboard
  The System Health dashboard provides a single place from which you can quickly determine the health of the system. You can also access hardware information.
- Understanding the system health score
  The Overview dashboard provides a single place from which you can quickly determine the health of the system.
- View overall Storage Group Compliance dashboard
  The storage group compliance dashboard for a specific storage system provides a view of storage group indicators.
- Understanding resource usage
  Unisphere supports a view of capacity utilization on a storage system throughout its life cycle.
- View capacity dashboard for a specific storage system (PowerMaxOS 10 (6079))
  The storage system capacity dashboard displays the state of the system in terms of resource and capacity usage from a usable and logical perspective.
- View capacity dashboard for a specific storage system (HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978)
  The storage system capacity dashboard allows you to see the amount of capacity your storage system is provisioned for, and the amount of that provisioned capacity that has been effectively used. You can also see how efficient the storage system is in using data reduction technologies.
- View provisioned capacity details
  The provisioned capacity details view provides details about the provisioned capacity including overprovisioning and system resource utilization that is related to provisioning.
- View effective capacity details
  The effective capacity details view provides more in-depth detail about effective capacity including usable capacity and relevant metadata utilization, both of which can impact effective capacity.
- View snapshot capacity details
  The snapshot capacity details view provides details about snapshot used capacity, system snapshot capacity, and storage group snapshot capacity.
- View data reduction details
  The data reduction details view provides details about DRR (enabled and reducing), unreducible data, and storage group data reduction.
- View capacity storage group demand details
  The Storage Group Demand report provides information about storage group capacity usage and identifies sources of unreducible data.
- View Protection dashboard
  The Protection Dashboard provides storage group summary protection information, summarizing the worst states of various replication technologies and counts of management objects participating in these technologies.
- View SRDF Topology view, SRDF Pair Topology view, and Migration Environments view
  The SRDF Topology view visually describes the layout of the SRDF connectivity of the selected storage system. The Migrations Environments topology view visually describes the layout of the migration environments of the selected 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.
- View FPIN 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.
- Discover storage systems
  Discovery is the process by which storage system, volume-level configuration, and status information is retrieved.
- Refresh storage system information
  Unisphere can refresh all the storage system data from its database. This operation does not discover new storage systems, only refreshes data for existing systems.
- Search for objects
  Unisphere supports the search for objects across all storage systems.
- View newly added features and updates
  Unisphere supports the display of a summary of the newly added features and updates in the latest Unisphere release.
- Accessing online help
  Unisphere online help provides help for Unisphere UI views, dialogs, and wizards.
- Log in dialog box
  The Login dialog box provides a mechanism for a user to log it to the system.
- Exit the console
  Unisphere supports the option to exit the user interface console.
- Manage jobs
  Certain configuration tasks that are performed on a storage system may not be not immediately processed, but instead are kept in a job list for review and submission in batches.
- Unisphere for PowerMax alert monitoring recommendations
  This topic outlines the list of recommended alerts for you to monitor or consider monitoring (depending on your environment) when configuring alert policies using Unisphere for PowerMax.
- Alerts
  You can configure Unisphere to monitor storage systems for specific events or error conditions. When an event or error of interest occurs, Unisphere displays an alert and, if configured to do so, notifies you of the alert by way of email, SNMP, or Syslog.
- View CloudIQ feed
  Unisphere can send data to CloudIQ that is related to configuration, performance, health scores, alerts, and security settings. CloudIQ can analyze this data and where it detects issues, it can generate recommendations for remediation. These recommendations are sent to Unisphere.
- Manage settings
  Unisphere allows an authorized user with appropriate access to manage system settings. Settings can also be cloned, that is, settings can be copied from one storage system and applied to one or more target storage systems subject to compatibility checks.
- Set general preferences
  Unisphere supports the management of settings (preferences) that allow the user to monitor and manage storage systems.
- Set performance management preferences
  Preferences (general, dashboards, charts, reports, data imports, and alerts) for performance management tasks can be set.
- Manage WLP settings
  The WLP setting allows the user to include or exclude job list entries when calculating the performance impact scores for each component. By default, the relevant entries are included in the performance impact score calculations.
- Understanding licenses
  Unisphere supports electronic licensing (e-Licensing). e-Licensing is a license management solution to help you track and comply with software license entitlement.
- User and Group management
  Users gain access to a storage system or component either directly through a role assignment and indirectly through membership in a user group that has a role assignment.
- Create access controls for volumes
  Access controls can be set on specific volumes within a storage system and those volumes can be assigned to a specific host.
- Manage the server certificates
  Unisphere supports the management of the certificates.
- Manage the trusted certificates
  Unisphere supports the management of the trusted certificates.
- Manage the smart card trusted certificates
  Unisphere supports the management of the smart card trusted certificates.
- Manage the remote syslog settings
  Unisphere supports the management of the remote syslog settings.
- Management settings
  - Set system attributes
    Unisphere supports the management of settings (preferences) that allow the user to monitor and manage storage systems.
  - Manage Secure Remote Services settings
    Secure Remote Services provides an automated health and system monitoring capability for your storage systems. It sends notifications to Dell Customer Support, sends data to Dell CloudIQ, and enables remote support where necessary. The Secure Remote Services gateway (SCG 4 or later) must be registered at Unisphere.
  - Secure Remote Services gateway registration
    Secure Remote Services (SRS) provides an automated health and system monitoring capability for your storage systems. It sends notifications to Dell Customer Support, sends data to Dell CloudIQ, and enables remote support where necessary. The SRS gateway must be registered at Unisphere.
  - Manage the Secure Remote Services server certificate
    Secure Remote Services provides an automated health and system monitoring capability for your storage systems. It sends notifications to Dell Customer Support, sends data to Dell CloudIQ, and enables remote support where necessary. The Secure Remote Services gateway must be registered at Unisphere.
  - Secure Remote Services gateway deregistration
    Secure Remote Services enables Dell to address potential problems before there is an impact to your business, and to provide you with actionable intelligence and advice based on product-generated alerts and configuration files.
  - Manage CloudIQ settings
    Storage systems can be connected to CloudIQ. CloudIQ allows you to track storage system health from any browser or mobile device.
  - Manage CyberSecIQ settings
    CyberSecIQ is a feature in CloudIQ that provides security assessment and measures the overall cyber security risk level of storage systems using intelligent, comprehensive, and predictive analytics. CyberSecIQ uses Secure Remote Services (Secure Remote Services) to collect system logs, system configurations, security configurations and settings, alerts, and performance metrics from Unisphere for PowerMax.
- Manage data protection preferences
  Unisphere allows an authorized user with appropriate access to manage system settings. Settings can also be cloned, that is, settings can be copied from one array and applied to one or more target arrays subject to compatibility checks.
- Performance settings
  Unisphere allows an authorized user with appropriate access to manage system settings. Settings can also be cloned, that is, settings can be copied from one storage system and applied to one or more target storage systems subject to compatibility checks.
- Unisphere Performance database settings
  Unisphere allows an authorized user with appropriate access to manage system settings. Settings can also be cloned, that is, settings can be copied from one storage system and applied to one or more target storage systems subject to compatibility checks.
- Unisphere System database settings
  Unisphere allows an authorized user with appropriate access to manage system settings. Settings can also be cloned, that is, settings can be copied from one storage system and applied to one or more target storage systems subject to compatibility checks.
- Alert settings
  You can configure Unisphere to monitor storage systems for specific events or error conditions. When an event or error of interest occurs, Unisphere displays an alert and, if configured to do so, notifies you of the alert by way of email, SNMP, or Syslog.
- Delete operations
  Unisphere supports delete operations.
- Filter list view
  Unisphere supports the filtering of objects in list views.
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.
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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Unisphere supports administrative tasks including managing settings and using dashboards to monitor storage systems.
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