Managing server groups

Ops Center Administrator User Guide

Version: 11.0.x
Audience: anonymous
Part Number: MK-99ADM001-21

Getting started
Overview of Ops Center Administrator
Dashboard
Analyzing data in the dashboard
Inventory and resource information
Schedule jobs
Scheduling a job
Monitoring scheduled jobs
Deleting scheduled jobs
Onboarding a block storage workflow
Configuring a block storage workflow
Creating and attaching volumes to servers workflow
Overview of NVMe over FC provisioning
NVMe over FC provisioning best practices
Searching resources
Adding a storage system
Adding block storage
Adding software-defined storage systems
Configure block storage
Managing port security and settings
Login WWN and iSCSI Name details
Editing iSCSI port settings
Adding a fabric switch
Creating parity groups
Creating parity groups, basic method
Creating parity groups or hot spares, advanced method
Managing free and spare disks
Parity groups inventory
External parity groups inventory
Discovering external storage
Initializing external parity groups
Creating external parity groups
Deleting external parity groups
Enabling accelerated compression in Ops Center Administrator
Creating a pool
Pools inventory
Creating a pool, basic method
How Ops Center Administrator calculates pool sizes for the basic method of pool creation
Creating a pool, advanced method
Creating a pool with external volume groups for VSP One Block
Pool details
Update pool tier settings
Create, attach, and protect volumes
Creating, attaching, and protecting volumes with local replication
Creating, attaching, and protecting volumes with local replication for configuring LUN paths
Creating, attaching, and protecting volumes with local replication for configuring namespace paths
Creating, attaching, and protecting volumes with high availability
Managing storage systems
Storage system inventory
Storage system details
Using Storage Navigator for advanced storage configuration
Enabling the Storage Navigator Launch Settings option
Accessing Storage Navigator
Using Ops Center Administrator with Storage Advisor Embedded
Updating a storage system
Managing servers
Adding servers
Scanning host groups
Scanning Host Groups
Using Scan Host Groups to Migrate Information
Exporting servers
Server and server groups inventory
Server details
Updating a server
Deleting servers
Editing paths
Editing LUN paths
Editing namespace paths
Reusing existing LUN paths
Managing server groups
Adding a server group
Updating a server group
Server group details
Managing volumes
Volumes inventory
About capacity saving
Creating volumes
Attaching existing volumes to a server
Attaching existing volumes to a Fibre or iSCSI server
Attaching existing volumes to an FC-NVMe server
Attaching like volumes
Updating volumes
Volume details
Updating the tiering policy for a volume
Shredding volumes
Managing host groups
Host groups inventory
Creating host groups
Editing host groups
Host group details
Adding and deleting WWNs from a host group
Adding volumes to host groups as logical units
Managing NVM subsystems
NVM subsystems inventory
Editing NVM subsystems
NVM subsystem details
Configure software-defined storage
Managing software-defined storage
Storage system inventory
Protecting data
Data protection concepts
Replication group concepts
Path specification for S-VOLs
LU number specification for P-VOLs and S-VOLs
High availability operations support matrix
Selecting volumes to protect
Protecting volumes with local replication
Protecting volumes by cloning
Protecting volumes by creating snapshots
Protecting existing volumes with high availability
Managing replication groups
Replication groups inventory
Editing replication groups
Replication group details
Unmanaged volume pairs inventory
Importing HA replication pairs from Ops Center Protector
Troubleshooting remote replication groups
Manage virtual storage machines
Virtual storage machine inventory
Creating virtual storage machines
Removing undefined resources from a virtual storage machine
Moving defined volumes to a virtual storage machine
Adding resources to a virtual storage machine
Virtual storage machine details
Adding storage systems to a virtual storage machine
Adding undefined volumes to a virtual storage machine
Adding undefined host groups to a virtual storage machine
Removing storage systems from a virtual storage machine
Removing defined volumes from a virtual storage machine
Removing undefined volumes from a virtual storage machine
Removing undefined host groups from a virtual storage machine
Migrate volumes
Volume migration workflow
External migration of volumes over 4TiB
Attaching volumes to storage when the source is managed in Ops Center Administrator (for external migration)
Discovering external storage
Discovering and virtualizing volumes
Migrating volumes
Managing external volumes
Managing migration tasks
Viewing migration task details
Editing a volume migration task
Interrupting an in-progress volume migration
Workflow for cleanup after migration
Deleting a volume migration task
Unvirtualizing external volumes
Detaching volumes from storage
Monitor block storage
Monitoring capacity
Monitoring hardware
Monitoring data protection
Monitoring jobs
Setting up SNMP alerts
Administer Ops Center Administrator
Administering security
Privileges and roles
Changing the local password
Registering an AD domain using a DNS server
Adding an account domain
Assigning user roles
Registering an AD domain using the virtual appliance manager
Updating an AD domain registered using the virtual appliance manager
Adding a login warning banner
Backing up and restoring system settings
Backing up and restoring system settings using Virtual Appliance Manager
Backing up and recovering using Ops Center Protector
System elements preserved during backup
Downloading audit logs
Downloading maintenance information
Managing the Ops Center Administrator service
Managing the JDK in Ops Center Administrator environment
Viewing the JDK version used by Ops Center Administrator
Replacing the JDK used by Ops Center Administrator
Troubleshooting the JDK replacement

Use server groups to simplify management of servers.

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