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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.
- Understanding workload monitoring, planning, and provisioning
  Unisphere supports applications that support the monitoring, planning, and provisioning of workloads.
- Provision storage
  Service level provisioning simplifies storage management by automating many of the tasks that are associated with provisioning storage.
- 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.
    - Select Storage Resource Pool
      This dialog box is used to select a Storage Resource Pool for the operation.
    - Select SSID
      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 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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Storage Management
Storage Management covers Unisphere for PowerMax support for the management of storage within one or more storage systems.
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.
Select SSID
This dialog box is used to select an SSID for the operation.

Select SSID

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