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Vlab VNX With VMware Integration - Lab01 Unisphere Overview
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Table of contents
Introduction ..........................................................................................................................................5 Purpose ............................................................................................................................................5 Scope ...............................................................................................................................................5 Terminology ......................................................................................................................................5 Technology overview .............................................................................................................................6 EMC Unisphere .................................................................................................................................6 EMC Unisphere features and benefits ...........................................................................................6 Lab overview .........................................................................................................................................7 Lab environment ...............................................................................................................................7 Labs..................................................................................................................................................7 Connecting to the lab ........................................................................................................................8 Lab 1 Unisphere Overview ..................................................................................................................9 Overview ...........................................................................................................................................9 Lab ...................................................................................................................................................9 Logging into Unisphere ................................................................................................................9 Browsing the Unisphere console ............................................................................................... 10
Dashboard ..................................................................................................................................10 System ........................................................................................................................................14 Hosts ..........................................................................................................................................17 Support .......................................................................................................................................28
Lab 2 FAST Cache Overview ............................................................................................................. 30 Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 30 FAST Cache Overview ................................................................................................................ 30 Lab ................................................................................................................................................ 30 Logging into Unisphere ............................................................................................................. 30 FAST Cache Setup Overview ...................................................................................................... 31 Storage Pool FAST Cache Settings ............................................................................................. 34 Lab 3 Storage Provisioning and FAST .............................................................................................. 36 Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 36 Storage Provisioning and FAST .................................................................................................. 36 Lab ................................................................................................................................................ 36 Logging into Unisphere ............................................................................................................. 36 Creating Storage Pools .............................................................................................................. 37 Review FAST Configuration ........................................................................................................ 42 Storage Pool LUN FAST Details................................................................................................... 45
Block Storage Provisioning ........................................................................................................ 47 Storage Pool Expansion............................................................................................................. 56 Lab 4 VNX Unified Storage CIFS and NFS....................................................................................... 61 Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 61 VNX Unified Storage CIFS and NFS .......................................................................................... 61 Lab ................................................................................................................................................ 61 Logging into Unisphere ............................................................................................................. 61 Creating File Systems ................................................................................................................ 67 NFS Shares ................................................................................................................................ 69 CIFS Shares ............................................................................................................................... 71 File System Checkpoints ........................................................................................................... 77 Lab 5 - Unisphere Analyzer ................................................................................................................. 85 Overview ........................................................................................................................................ 85 Lab ................................................................................................................................................ 85 Conclusion ......................................................................................................................................... 93 Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 93 Support.......................................................................................................................................... 93 Customer .................................................................................................................................. 93 EMC personnel .......................................................................................................................... 93 References ..................................................................................................................................... 93
Introduction
Purpose Unisphere overview for block and file Example: This Lab Guide serves as a guide to a demonstration of EMC Unisphere for VNX Scope This Lab Guide provides: Terminology An introduction to the technology components used in the solution Unisphere Overview FAST Cache Overview FAST Overview A set of illustrated labs to demonstrate the solution
RAID types
LUNs
RAID Groups
Technology overview
EMC Unisphere EMC Unisphere features and benefits EMC Unisphere is a web-based user interface (UI) that you can run from any computer with a supported web browser. Unisphere offers simplified array management for many tasks. It is easy to learn, so you can be productive right away. It offers: Simplified management of EMC VNX arrays Unified management for both block and file
Lab overview
Lab environment The environment for this lab includes the following: VNX Block VSA IP: 192.168.0.30 Array Credentials Username: sysadmin Password: sysadmin IP: 192.168.0.35 Array Credentials Username: nasadmin Password: nasadmin IP: 192.168.0.11 Windows Credentials Username: vlab\administrator Password: Password
Labs
This lab includes the following labs: Lab 1: Unisphere Overview Managing a VNX array with EMC Unisphere Lab 2: FAST Cache Overview FAST Cache Setup Overview FAST Cache Storage Pool Overview Lab 3: Storage Provisioning and FAST Overview Creating Storage Pools FAST Overview Lab 4: Unified Storage CIFS and NFS NFS Overview CIFS Overview File System Checkpoints Overview Lab 5: Unisphere Analyzer
Connecting to the lab To connect to the lab launch an RDP session from the remote access drop down menu for VNX_With_VMware Integration_VC01
Logging into Unisphere 1. To launch Unisphere double Click Internet Explorer on the desktop. (See Figure 1)
Figure 1.
Launching Unisphere
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Enter the following username and password and click login: Username: sysadmin Password: sysadmin
Figure 2.
Log in to Unisphere
Dashboard
3. Review the All Systems Dashboard. (See Figure 3)
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Figure 3.
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Customize the All Systems Dashboard by clicking Customize on the top right. (See Figure 4)
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Figure 4.
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You can easily add/remove detail to the dashboard while in customize mode. Once complete click Done (See Figure 5)
Figure 5.
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You will now select and array to manage. From the System list click VNXBlock. (See Figure 6)
Figure 6.
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You are now presented with a new Dashboard relating specifically to the array VNX-Block. (See Figure 7)
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Figure 7.
VNX-Block Dashboard
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You can also customize this Dashboard by clicking Customize on the top right. From the Customize menu you can add multiple options to your dashboard by dragging the icons to the dashboard. Once complete click Done. (See Figure 8)
Figure 8.
System
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Click System from the top navigation bar to review the sub sections. Note System is broken into Hardware, Monitoring and Alerts & Reports. (See Figure 9)
Figure 9.
10. To review the Storage Hardware of your VNX Array click Storage Hardware. (See Figure 10)
Figure 10.
11. Under Disk Array Enclosures expand Bus 1 Enclosure 0 > Disks and click Bus 1 Enclosure 0 Disk 1 . Note that the relevant disk has been highlighted in the center pane. This can be used to easily identify hardware components of your VNX Array. Note also the Wizards and Service Tasks that can be performed from the right hand pane. (See Figure 11)
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Figure 11.
12. To review Unisphere Monitoring and Alerts click System > Monitoring and Alerts. (See Figure 12)
Figure 12.
13. Monitoring and Alerts contains the following (See Figure 13) a. b. Alerts System alerts and warnings Notifications Setup notifications for specific alerts
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c. d. e.
QoS Manager Allocate system resources on an application basis SP Events Logs View all events for your block system Statistics Performance analysis and resource usage statistics with Unisphere Analyzer. (For using Analyzer See Lab 5 - Unisphere Analyzer)
Figure 13.
Hosts
14. To access Hosts click Hosts on the navigation toolbar. (See Figure 14)
Figure 14.
Accessing Hosts
15. To view all hosts connected to your array click Host List. (See Figure 15)
Figure 15.
16. From the Host list you can see that you have 2 VMware ESXi hosts connected to your array. (See Figure 16)
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Figure 16.
17. EMC Unisphere is VMware Aware. To view the VMware Integration within Unisphere click Hosts > Virtualization. (See Figure 17)
Figure 17.
Access Virtualization
18. Currently you do not have anything listed under the VMware Infrastructure tab. This section can be used to monitor vCenter or ESX hosts. To add your vCenter click Add. (See Figure 18)
Figure 18.
Adding vCenter
19. Ensure Configure my ESX Servers managed by vCenter Servers is selected. Click Next. ( See Figure 19)
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Figure 19.
20. To add your vCenter Server click Add. (See Figure 20)
Figure 20.
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21. Enter the following vCenter Server Credentials and click OK. (See Figure 21) a. b. c. IP Address: 192.168.0.11 Username: vlab\administrator Password: Password123!
Figure 21.
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Figure 22.
Figure 23.
Click OK
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Figure 24.
Figure 25.
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Figure 26.
27. Under VMware infrastructure expand your vCenter Server 192.168.0.11 to see the ESXi hosts that are connected to your VNX array. Click esx01.vlab.local and review the properties of the VM NFS-SIOC under the Virtual Machines tab. Note that VM Name, Guest Host, VM IP and Guest OS are all displayed. VMware tools are required on the VM for this detail to display. This view allows the storage administrator to monitor storage usage in the VMware environment. (See Figure 27)
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Figure 27.
View VM details
28. Next you will see how easy it is to add additional hosts to a Storage Group using Unisphere. To do this click Hosts > Storage Groups. (See Figure 28)
Figure 28.
29. Under Storage Groups click vLab Cluster and note that currently you have one ESXi host in your storage group (esxi01.vlab.local). (See Figure 29)
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Figure 29.
30. To add an additional host click Connect Hosts. (See Figure 30)
Figure 30.
31. Click esx02.vlab.local and click the highlighted arrow to add it to the storage group. (See Figure 31)
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Figure 31.
Adding esx02.vlab.local
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Figure 32.
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Figure 34.
35. Review the Storage Groups screen and note that you now have 2 hosts in the vLab Cluster Storage Group. Both of these hosts will now have access to all LUNS added to this storage group. (See Figure 35)
Figure 35.
Support
36. To access the Unisphere Support section click Support. (See Figure 36)
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Figure 36.
37. From the Support section you can access the following (Due to firewall restrictions in vLab you will not be able to Enable the Support options). (See Figure 37) a. b. c. d. e. f. How Tos Procedures to help you manage and service your system Community Online collaborative resources and forums for your product Downloads Download software updates for your system using the Unisphere Service Manager Unisphere Help Comprehensive help system Product Support Page Best practice documents, white papers and Live Chat with EMC Engineers Search EMC Support General EMC support search
Figure 37.
Support options
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The lab uses: EMC Unisphere Management console FAST Cache Setup Overview Storage Pool FAST Cache settings The lab includes overviews of the following:
Lab
Logging into Unisphere 1. 2. If you are not already logged into Unisphere from the previous lab please do the following. Otherwise continue to Step 4. To launch Unisphere double Click Internet Explorer on the desktop. (See Figure 38)
Figure 38.
Launching Unisphere
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Enter the following username and password and click login: Username: sysadmin Password: sysadmin
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Figure 39.
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Figure 40.
Accessing System
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On the right hand pane click System Properties. (See Figure 41)
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Figure 41.
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From the VNX-Block Storage System Properties screen click the FAST Cache tab. (See Figure 42)
Figure 42.
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Here you can see that FAST Cache is enabled on your VNX Array and is currently using 2 Flash disks in a Raid 1 configuration. (See Figure 43)
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Figure 43.
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To close the FAST Cache configuration screen click OK. (See Figure 44)
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Figure 44.
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You will now review the properties of a Storage Pool to see how easy it is to manage FAST Cache. To do this click Storage > Storage pools. (See Figure 45)
Figure 45.
10. Right click Pool 0 - FAST Cache Enabled. Click Properties. (See Figure 46)
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Figure 46.
11. On the VNX-Block Pool 0 : Storage Pool Properties screen click Advanced and note that FAST Cache is enabled at the Pool level. This means that all LUNs created from this storage pool will benefit from FAST Cache. To finish click OK. (See Figure 47)
Figure 47.
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Lab Logging into Unisphere 1. 2. If you are not already logged into Unisphere from the previous lab please do the following. Otherwise continue to Step 4. To launch Unisphere double Click Internet Explorer on the desktop. (See Figure 48)
Figure 48.
Launching Unisphere
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Enter the following username and password and click login: Username: sysadmin Password: sysadmin
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Figure 49.
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To create a new storage pool you need to browse to Storage pools. Click Storage > Storage Pools. (See Figure 50)
Figure 50.
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Figure 51.
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VNX OE 32 brings many new enhancements to the VNX operating Environment. One such enhancement is the ability to now select different Raid levels for each disk type. Accept the defaults here for Raid type and set the number of each disk type as shown below. Please ensure to clear Perform a Background verify on the new storage. (See Figure 52) Disk Selections should be as follows:
Extreme Performance - Number of disks = 3 Performance - Number of disks = 3 Capacity - Number of disks = 4
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Figure 52.
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Click Advanced and note that FAST Cache is Enabled by default. Click OK to create the new pool.(See Figure 53)
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Figure 53.
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Figure 54.
Click Yes
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Click Yes to acknowledge the Warning shown below. (See Figure 55)
Figure 55.
Click Yes
10. Click OK to acknowledge the Message shown below. (See Figure 56)
Figure 56.
Click OK
Please note that it may take a few minutes for the Unisphere GUI to refresh so that you can review the status of your new storage pool. 11. Once the GUI has refreshed you can now see that your storage pool is in an Initializing state. It may take a few minutes for your pool to change to a Ready State. (See Figure 57)
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Figure 57.
12. You will now review the FAST configuration for Pool 0. To do this right click Pool 0 FAST Cache Enabled and click Properties. (See Figure 58)
Figure 58.
13. On the General tab note that both Raid Type and Disk Type are Mixed. (See Figure 59)
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Figure 59.
14. To view the FAST configuration for Pool O click Tiering. Note that Auto-Tiering is set to Scheduled. Note also the metrics for Data to Move Down/Up. In the bottom pane note that data within the pool is spread across all three disk tiers. (See Figure 60)
Figure 60.
15. To modify the Relocation schedule click Relocation Schedule. From here you can easily manage and change the Data Relocation Rate and also the Data Relocation Schedule. To finish click OK.(See Figure 61)
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Figure 61.
Figure 62.
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Storage Pool LUN FAST Details 17. To view the FAST details of a Pool LUN right click VAAI_LUN_1 and click Properties. (See Figure 63)
Figure 63.
18. Click Tiering. Note the Tiering Policy is set to Start High then Auto-Tier which is the recommended setting. The following options are available under Tiering Policy. a. Start High then Auto-Tier (recommended) First sets the preferred tier for data relocation to the highest performing disk drives with available space, then relocates the LUNs data based on the LUNs performance statistics and the auto-tiering algorithm. Auto-Tier Sets the initial data placement to Optimized Pool and then relocates the LUNs data based on the LUNs performance statistics and the auto-tiering algorithm.
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Highest Available Tier Sets the preferred tier for initial data placement and data relocation to the highest performing disk drives with available space. Lowest Available Tier Sets the preferred tier for initial data placement and data relocation to the most cost effective disk drives with available space. No Data Movement No data movement between tiers. The LUN retains the initial tier settings. Note also under Tier Details that this LUN is currently running on the highest tier. To finish click OK. (See Figure 64)
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e.
Figure 64.
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Block Storage Provisioning 19. To provision storage to a host you first need to create a new LUN. In unisphere there a several ways to do this. On the right hand pane there are Wizards for most day to day operations including a LUN provisioning Wizard which will take you through step by step provisioning storage to hosts. To begin click LUN Provisioning Wizard from the right hand pane. (See Figure 65)
Figure 65.
Figure 66.
Click Next
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21. Click Assign LUNS to the servers & check both ESXi hosts. Click Next. (See Figure 67)
Figure 67.
22. Click Yes to acknowledge the Warning shown below. (See Figure 68)
Figure 68.
Click Yes
23. Select your Storage System VNX-Block. Click Next. (See Figure 69)
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Figure 69.
24. Click Pool 0 FAST Cache Enabled. Click Next. (See Figure 70)
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Figure 70.
25. Click Thin to create a virtually provisioned LUN. Click Next. (See Figure 71) A thin LUN lets you assign more storage capacity to a host than is physically available. Storage is assigned to the server in a capacity-on-demand method from a shared pool. A thin LUN competes with other LUNs in the pool for the available pool storage. The storage system software monitors and adds storage capacity, as required, to each pool, not each LUN. This simplifies the creation and allocation of storage capacity. For thin LUNs, you must install the thin provisioning enabler on the system.
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Figure 71.
LUN Features
26. Use the following details for LUN Properties and click Next. (See Figure 72) a. b. c. Number of LUNS: 1 User Capacity: 2GB LUN Name: Lab3
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Figure 72.
LUN Properties
27. Click Continue without adding LUNS to a folder. Click Next. (See Figure 73)
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Figure 73.
Select Folder
28. Review the Summary and click Finish. (See Figure 74)
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Figure 74.
29. Review the Results screen and click Finish. (See Figure 75)
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Figure 75.
30. To see your newly provisioned LUN click Hosts > Storage Groups. (See Figure 76)
Figure 76.
31. Under Storage Groups click vLab Cluster. In the bottom pane click LUNS. Note that the new LUN you just provisioned is available to both ESX hosts in the storage group. (See Figure 77)
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Figure 77.
Storage Pool Expansion One of the many benefits of EMC VNX Storage Pools is the ability to expand a pool with addition disks. VNX OE32 brings automatic re-striping of data across the additional disks. To expand a storage pool follow these steps. 32. Click Storage > Storage Pools. (See
Figure 78.
33. Right click Pool 0 FAST Cache Enabled. Click Expand. (See
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Figure 79.
34. You should have 3 SAS drives available with which to expand the pool. Please ensure to deselect Perform a Background verify on the new storage. Click OK. (See
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Figure 80.
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Figure 81.
Figure 82.
37. To monitor the progress of the automatic rebalance of data right click Pool 0 FAST Cache Enabled. Click Properties. (See
Figure 83.
38. Under Operation In Progress you can see the Rebalancing % complete details. NOTE: It may take up to 5 minutes for the rebalancing to begin. Click Refresh to monitor progress. Click OK to close. (See
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Figure 84.
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Lab Logging into Unisphere 1. 2. If you are not already logged into Unisphere from the previous lab please do the following. Otherwise continue to Step 4. To launch Unisphere double Click Internet Explorer on the desktop. (See Figure 85)
Figure 85.
Launching Unisphere
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Enter the following username and password and click login: Username: sysadmin Password: sysadmin
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Figure 86.
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This lab uses Virtual Storage Appliances (VSA) to replicate EMC arrays. For this reason you need to add the VNX-File VSA to your VNX-Block instance of Unisphere. To do this click Home. (See Figure 87)
Figure 87.
Access Home
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Figure 88.
System List
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Figure 89.
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Enter the following IP in the Connect dialog and click Connect. (See Figure 90) a. Connect: 192.168.0.35
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Figure 90.
VNX-File VSA IP
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Figure 91.
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Enter the following details on the login screen. Click Login.(See Figure 92) a. b. c. Name: nasadmin Password: nasadmin Scope: Local (You must select Local Scope from the drop down or this step will fail)
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Figure 92.
Login Details
10. You should now see the VNX-File appliance listed in your system list. (See Figure 93)
Figure 93.
VNX-File Added
11. To manage VNX-File click All Systems > VNX-File. (See Figure 94)
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Figure 94.
Manage VNX-File
12. To view the storage pools for file click Storage > Storage Pools. (See Figure 95)
Figure 95.
13. Note that you have two storage pools from which you can create File Systems. (See Figure 96)
Figure 96.
Creating File Systems 14. To create a new file system or to view existing file systems click Storage > File Systems. (See Figure 97)
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Figure 97.
15. Note that you have two existing File Systems FS01 and FS02. To create a new File System click Create. (See Figure 98)
Figure 98.
16. Create the new File System with the following details and click OK. (See Figure 99) a. b. File System Name: Lab4 Storage Pool: clar_r5_economy
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c. d. e. f. g. h.
Storage Capacity: 2048 Auto Extend Enabled: Selected Maximum Capacity: 3072 Thin Enabled: Selected File Level Retention: Off Deduplication Enabled: Selected
Figure 99.
NFS Shares 17. Now that you have created a new File System you can now create shares for users to access the File System. To do this click Storage > NFS. (See Figure 100)
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Figure 100.
Navigate to NFS
18. Note that you have two existing NFS Exports - /FS01 and /FS02. To create a new NFS export click Create. (See Figure 101)
Figure 101.
19. Create the new NFs export with the following details. Click OK. (See Figure 102) a. b. File System: Lab4 Path: /Lab4 VNX with VMware Integration - Unisphere Overview 70
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Figure 102.
CIFS Shares 20. EMC VNX allows you to share the same File System as an NFS share and a CIFS share simultaneously offering more flexibility in mixed OS environments. To create a CIFS share from your File System click Storage > CIFS. (See Figure 103)
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Figure 103.
Navigate to CIFS
21. Currently you do not have any CIFS shares setup. To enable EMC VNX to replace your physical file servers you can setup a CIFS server in Unisphere. This step has been completed for you but to review it click CIFS Servers. You have a standalone CIFS Server available that is using a VNX Interface configured with IP 192.168.1.35.(See Figure 104)
Figure 104.
22. To create a new CIFS share click Shares > Create. (See Figure 105)
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Figure 105.
23. Create your new CIFS share with the following details and click OK. (See Figure 106) a. b. c. d. CIFS Share Name: Lab4 File System: Lab4 Path: \Lab4 CIFS Servers: click CIFS01
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Figure 106.
24. Review your new share under the shares tab. (See Figure 107)
Figure 107.
25. To access your new share you can browse to the CIFS Server by doing the following. Click Start. Enter the NetBIOS name of the CIFS Server \\cifs01 (See Figure 108)
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Figure 108.
Browse to cifs01
26. Enter the following credentials to connect. Click OK. (See Figure 109) a. b. Username: cifs01\administrator Password: Password
27. Windows Explorer should now open and you can right click Lab4 and click Map Network Drive. (See Figure 110)
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Figure 110.
28. Accept the defaults and click Finish. (See Figure 111)
Figure 111.
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A very useful feature of your unified VNX is the ability to take periodical snapshots of your file systems using File System Checkpoints so that your users can easily recover deleted files. To see an example of this do the following. 29. In your new mapped drive right click, click New, click Text Document. (See Figure 112)
Figure 112.
30. Call your new text document New Doc. (See Figure 113)
Figure 113.
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31. Open your New Doc and enter the following text and save the changes. (See Figure 114) a. Original Text
Figure 114.
Enter text
32. You will now take a manual File System Checkpoint of your Lab4 file system. To do this click Data Protection > Create File System Checkpoint. (See Figure 115)
Figure 115.
33. Create your new checkpoint with the following parameters and click OK. (See Figure 116) a. b. c. d. Production File System: Lab4 Checkpoint Name: New_Doc Storage Pool: clar_r5_performance Storage Capacity: 2048
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Figure 116.
34. Now browse back to your mapped drive and delete the file New Doc. (See Figure 117)
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Figure 117.
35. Now that you have deleted your file you can restore it using the File System Checkpoint taken earlier. Right click the Lab4 mapped drive and click Restore Previous Versions. (See Figure 118)
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Figure 118.
36. Under Folder versions click the manual checkpoint that you took earlier and click Open. (See Figure 119)
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Figure 119.
37. In the Checkpoint explorer window right click New Doc and click Copy. (See Figure 120)
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Figure 120.
38. Return to your mapped drive and paste the checkpoint version of the file to restore it. (See Figure 121)
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Figure 121.
39. Finally open the file to verify the text you typed earlier. (See Figure 122)
Figure 122.
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Lab
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Here you will see 4 panes for various options within Analyzer. (See Figure 124)
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To start and stop Analyzer gathering performance data on the array click Performance Data Logging under Settings. (See Figure 125) VNX with VMware Integration - Unisphere Overview 85
Here you can specify internvals and stop automatically after a certain number of days. As this is a demo environment there is no load on the array so click OK without starting Data Logging. You will view an existing performance file later in the lab.
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Charts can be customized by clicking Customize Charts. (See Figure 126.)Here you can set various colours, line types and so on for the graphs. The main section to highlight here is Advanced under Characteristics (Analyzer). Select Advanced. This displays additional advanced performance counters when analyzing performance statistics. Click OK to apply this change. (See Figure 126). Click Ok to the Success message. (See Figure 127)
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Performance data can be viewed in real time or archive files can be viewed. To view performance details in realtime you can use the charts under Performance Charts. (See Figure 128). (Note: as there is no load on this array, you will view an archive file instead).
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When analyzer is gathering data it creates .nar files on the Storage Processors. There are several extra options besides viewing these files for managing them. (See Figure 129). If there are multiple .nar files over a period of time they can be merged together into one single file. (Merge Archive) .nar files can be copied from the array to a local machine using the Retrieve Archive option. .nar files can also be Dumped to an excel file if you have another application that will do analysis on the numbers.
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To open an existing .nar file (See Figure 130): a. b. c. click Open Archive Click vLab.nar Click Open
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You can specify time ranges to view so if you have a .nar file than spans days or weeks you can narrow down a specific time range within those days/weeks. Click OK without changing the times. (See Figure 131)
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Right anywhere on this page to see the options available. To view as much detailed information as possible select Performance Detail. (See Figure 132)
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10. You will then see options for performance counters you want to view. (See Figure 133) You can view performance counters of LUNs, Storage Pools, Raid Groups and Storage Processors (SP). As you can see in 1 LUN is selected and Utilization is the counter selected. Details of this LUNs performance can be seen in the chart in the right pane.
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11. Scroll down the list of LUNs and select EMCW-LUN10. In the pane under that select Response Time (ms) and Total Bandwidth (MB/s). (See Figure 134) Now you can see various resopnse times in the chart in the right pane. The Y Axis depicts the performance counter and the X Axis depicts the time.
Figure 134. Viewing Response Time and Bandwidth for LUN EMCW-LUN10
12. Click Storage Pool and SP to browse for other performance counters to view on various components on the array. (See Figure 135 and Figure 136)
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13. If you right click on a graph in the right pane you have the option to modify the line colours, types and so on by selecting Chart Configuration. This graph can also be saved as an image file, copied or printed. (See Figure 137)
14. When you have finished Click x on both windows to close Unisphere Analyzer.
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Conclusion
Summary During this demonstration, you completed the following labs: Unisphere overview, its features and functionality FAST Cache Overview Storage Pool Creation FAST Overview Block Storage Provisioning CIFS and NFS Overview File System Checkpoints overview Unisphere Analyzer
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References
For additional labs within this lab please download the following guides:
VMware with VNX Integration Data Protection with VNX Snapshot and Clones. VMware with VNX Integration insert lab name
There VMware with VNX Integration insert lab name
There is additional separate lab for an indepth analysis of FAST and FAST VP with Unisphere Analyzer. This lab is called Unisphere Analyzer Evaluating FAST Cache and FAST-VP.
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