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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.

    • Provisioning scenarios
    • Managing planning jobs using a Planning dashboard

      Unisphere for PowerMax provides a planning dashboard that allows users to see historical and predicted headroom information and this information can be used to create and manage planning jobs.

    • 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.

    • 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.

      • Manage volumes

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

        • Create volumes

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

        • Delete volumes

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

        • Duplicate volumes

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

        • Change volume configuration

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

        • Expand existing volumes

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

        • Map volumes

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

        • Unmap volumes

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

        • Set volume status

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

        • Set volume attributes

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

        • Set volume identifiers

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

        • Set volume names

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

        • Edit volume capacities

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

        • Volume edit operations

          Volume edit operations are supported in Unisphere for PowerMax.

        • Volume operations

          Volume operations are supported in Unisphere for PowerMax.

        • Set copy pace (QoS) for device groups

          The QoS (Quality of Service) feature adjusts the data transfer (copy) pace on individual volumes or groups of volumes (DGs or SGs) for certain operations.

        • QOS for replication

          The QoS (Quality of Service) feature adjusts the data transfer (copy) pace on individual volumes or groups of volumes (DGs or SGs) for certain operations.

        • Set copy pace (QoS) for storage groups

          The QoS (Quality of Service) feature adjusts the data transfer (copy) pace on individual volumes or groups of volumes (DGs or SGs) for certain operations.

        • Set copy pace (QoS) for volumes

          The QoS (Quality of Service) feature adjusts the data transfer (copy) pace on individual volumes or groups of volumes (DGs or SGs) for certain operations.

        • View volumes

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

        • View CKD volume details

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

        • View CKD volume front-end paths

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

        • View masking information

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

        • View storage resource pool information

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

        • View thin volumes

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

        • View thin volume details

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

        • View volume back-end paths

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

        • View volume FBA front-end paths

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

        • View volume SRDF information

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

        • Select Volume Range dialog box

          This dialog box is used to select the range of volumes for the operation.

        • Advanced Options dialog

          Unisphere supports Advanced options .

        • Map volume operations

          Volume-mapping operations are supported by Unisphere for PowerMax.

        • View volumes

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

        • View CKD volumes in CU image

          Count Key Data (CKD) volumes are used for mainframe storage.

        • Set volume emulation

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

        • Map CKD volumes

          Count Key Data (CKD) volumes are used for mainframe storage.

        • Manage thin pool allocations

          Thin pools contain DATA volumes of the same emulation and the same configuration.

        • Set a device identity

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

        • Expand remote 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 volumes

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

  4. Manage volumes

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

  5. Volume operations

    Volume operations are supported in Unisphere for PowerMax.

Volume operations

Volume operations are supported in Unisphere for PowerMax.

The following volume operations are available:

  • Selecting volume ranges (see Select Volume Range dialog box).
  • Viewing base addresses in use (see Base Addresses in Use dialog box).

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