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Unisphere for PowerMax administration
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Unisphere Quick Start GuideUnisphere enables the user to configure and manage PowerMax, VMAX All Flash, and VMAX storage systems.
Unisphere for PowerMax administrationUnisphere supports administrative tasks including managing settings and using dashboards to monitor storage systems.
- Capacity informationUnisphere supports measurement of capacity using both the base 2 (binary) and base 10 (decimal) systems.
- Operate as the initial setup userAn Initial Setup User (ISU) user can perform administrative tasks only on storage systems that do not have defined roles (authorization rules).
- Login authenticationUnisphere authenticates users attempting to access the system.
- View Unisphere for PowerMax overview pageThe 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 systemsThe 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 systemThe 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 scoreThe System Health 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 usageUnisphere 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 detailsThe provisioned capacity details view provides details about the provisioned capacity including overprovisioning and system resource utilization that is related to provisioning.
- View effective capacity detailsThe 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 detailsThe snapshot capacity details view provides details about snapshot used capacity, system snapshot capacity, and storage group snapshot capacity.
- View data reduction detailsThe data reduction details view provides details about DRR (enabled and reducing), unreducible data, and storage group data reduction.
- View capacity storage group demand detailsThe Storage Group Demand report provides information about storage group capacity usage and identifies sources of unreducible data.
- View Protection dashboardThe 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 and filter SAN health report The SAN Health Report view allows the user to determine the health of their storage network.
- Discover storage systemsDiscovery is the process by which storage system, volume-level configuration, and status information is retrieved.
- Refresh storage system informationUnisphere 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 objectsUnisphere supports the search for objects across all storage systems.
- View newly added features and updatesUnisphere supports the display of a summary of the newly added features and updates in the latest Unisphere release.
- Accessing online helpUnisphere online help provides help for Unisphere UI views, dialogs, and wizards.
- Log in dialog boxThe Login dialog box provides a mechanism for a Unisphere user to log it to the system.
- Exit the consoleUnisphere supports the option to exit the user interface console.
- Manage jobsCertain 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 recommendationsThis 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.
- AlertsYou 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.
- Manage settingsUnisphere 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 preferencesUnisphere supports the management of settings (preferences) that allow the user to monitor and manage storage systems.
- Set performance management preferencesPreferences (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 managementUsers 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 certificatesUnisphere supports the management of the certificates.
- Manage the trusted certificatesUnisphere supports the management of the trusted certificates.
- Manage the smart card trusted certificatesUnisphere supports the management of the smart card trusted certificates.
- Manage the remote syslog settingsUnisphere supports the management of the remote syslog settings.
- Management settings
  - Set system attributesUnisphere supports the management of settings (preferences) that allow the user to monitor and manage storage systems.
  - Manage Secure Remote Services settingsSecure 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 registrationSecure 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 certificateSecure 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 deregistrationSecure 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 settingsStorage systems can be connected to CloudIQ. CloudIQ allows you to track storage system health from any browser or mobile device.
  - Manage CyberSecIQ settingsCyberSecIQ 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 preferencesUnisphere 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 settingsUnisphere 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 settingsUnisphere 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 settingsUnisphere 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 settingsYou 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 operationsUnisphere supports delete operations.
- Filter list viewUnisphere supports the filtering of objects in list views.
Storage ManagementStorage consists of the following: storage groups, service levels, templates, storage resource pools, volumes, external storage, vVols, and disk groups.
Host ManagementStorage 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 ManagementThe 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 ManagementUnisphere 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 ManagementThe System Management area of Unisphere includes management of the following: Hardware, System Properties, File (eNAS), iSCSI, iSCSI+NVMe, and PowerMax File.
Serviceability ManagementUnisphere provides a serviceability application that supports the deployment of update packages for PowerMax embedded applications.
System Profiles ManagementA 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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