Where To Go After Setting Up A Group; Common Group Customization Tasks - Dell EqualLogic PS4210 Installation And Setup Manual

6 Where to Go After Setting Up a Group

After setting up a group, you can customize the group in order to more effectively manage your
storage environment. You can also begin to use the full set of product features. The following
documentation and additional products are included in the purchase of your array and are
available at any time.
• The Hardware Owner's Manual provides basic storage array information, maintenance
information, and troubleshooting information for your PS Series storage array hardware.
• The Dell EqualLogic Group Manager Administrator's Guide provides details about
configuring and using the PS Series firmware that is installed on each array. It includes
information about storage concepts and how to use the Group Manager GUI to manage a
group.
• The Dell EqualLogic Group Manger CLI Reference Guide describes how to use the Group
Manager CLI to manage a group and individual arrays.
• The Manual Transfer Utility supports off-network replication of volume data.
• In a VMware® environment, you can use the Dell EqualLogic Virtual Storage Manager
(VSM) for VMware to manage snapshots and replicas on the PS Series group that can
restore individual virtual machines or the whole VMware environment.
• You can use the Dell EqualLogic Storage Replication Adapter for VMware Site Recovery
Manager® (SRM), which allows SRM to understand and recognize PS Series replicas for
full SRM integration.
• The Dell EqualLogic Multipathing Extension Module (MEM) provides enhancements to the
VMware multipathing functionality.
• In a Microsoft environment, you can use the Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition to
create and manage snapshots, clones, and replica Smart Copies on the PS Series group that
can restore applications such as SQL Server, Exchange Server, Hyper-V, SharePoint, and
NTFS file shares.
• If you have several PS Series groups, you can monitor and manage them with Dell
EqualLogic SAN Headquarters.

Common Group Customization Tasks

Table 11 describes c ommon group customization tasks. These tasks are fully documented in the
Dell EqualLogic Group Manager Administrator's Guide.
Table 11: Common Group Customization Tasks
Task
Add network connections to
a group member
Create administration
accounts
Description
Multiple network connections increase performance and availability
and are required for multipath I/O. Dell recommends that you connect
all the network interfaces on both control modules to multiple network
switches and then use the GUI or CLI to assign an IP address and
netmask to the interfaces and enable them.
The account is the default administration account. Dell
grpadmin
recommends that you set up additional accounts for each administrator,
and reserve the default
grpadmin
account for maintenance operations
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