Configuring storage systems, servers, and fabric switches (such as provisioning volumes), involves a series of tasks. Ops Center Administrator consolidates these tasks into jobs. You can create the jobs to run immediately or schedule the jobs to run at a specified date and time. You can schedule jobs during underutilized time slots like midnight to avoid high load time.
You can schedule jobs to configure the following resources:
- Block Storage Systems
- Servers/Server Groups
- Fabric Switches
- Virtual Storage Machines
Ops Center Administrator allows you to schedule, monitor, and delete jobs.
- If you stop the Ops Center Administrator service, the scheduled jobs will run at the specified date and time after the service is restarted. However, if the specified date and time is before the service is restarted, the jobs will fail and not run. If this occurs, reschedule the jobs again.
- If you upgrade Ops Center Administrator or back up and restore it to a different environment, scheduled jobs that are scheduled to run at a later date or time will not be migrated and will fail. If this occurs, schedule the jobs again after the upgrade or restore process is complete.
- If too many jobs are run simultaneously, it can exceed the processing capacity of the Ops Center Administrator server. Also, the jobs might hang up in the In Progress state and fail to complete. If this occurs, restart the Ops Center Administrator service and schedule the jobs at different times.
- When you schedule a provisioning job, if another provisioning job that uses the same path configuration is run through Ops Center Administrator or other tools before the scheduled job starts, the scheduled job may fail to use the planned LUN.
For example, if you schedule a Create, Attach, and Protect Volumes with High Availability job with Mandate LUN Alignment enabled, and then submit an Attach Existing Volumes job that specifies the same path configurations as the P-VOL of the HA pair you are creating in the scheduled job, the scheduled job will fail during the Attach Volumes process when the LUNs because the pair cannot be aligned.
If this occurs, delete the created volumes and then submit the job again after specifying a LUN that you know will be available.