InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 User's Guide
- Section I. Getting started
- Introducing Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Using the Management Server console
- About selecting the objects
- About searching for objects
- Examples for using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Example: Cluster Server troubleshooting using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Example: Ensuring the correct level of protection for volumes controlled by Storage Foundation
- Example: Improving the availability and the disaster recovery readiness of a service group through fire drills
- Examples: Identifying and reducing storage waste using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Section II. Managing Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Managing user access
- Creating an Organization
- Modifying the name of an Organization
- Setting up fault monitoring
- Creating rules in a perspective
- Editing rules in a perspective
- Deleting rules in a perspective
- Enabling rules in a perspective
- Disabling rules in a perspective
- Suppressing faults in a perspective
- Using reports
- Running a report
- Subscribing for a report
- Sending a report through email
- Managing user access
- Section III. Managing hosts
- Overview
- Working with the uncategorized hosts
- Managing File Replicator (VFR) operations
- Managing disk groups and disks
- Creating disk groups
- Importing disk groups
- Adding disks to disk groups
- Resizing disks in disk groups
- Renaming disks in disk groups
- Splitting disk groups
- Moving disk groups
- Joining disk groups
- Initializing disks
- Replacing disks
- Recovering disks
- Bringing disks online
- Setting disk usage
- Evacuating disks
- Running or scheduling Trim
- Managing volumes
- Creating Storage Foundation volumes
- Encrypting existing volumes
- Deleting volumes
- Moving volumes
- Renaming volumes
- Adding mirrors to volumes
- Removing the mirrors of volumes
- Creating instant volume snapshots
- Creating space optimized snapshots for volumes
- Creating mirror break-off snapshots for volumes
- Dissociating snapshots
- Reattaching snapshots
- Resizing volumes
- Restoring data from the snapshots of volumes
- Refreshing the snapshot of volumes
- Configuring a schedule for volume snapshot refresh
- Adding snapshot volumes to a refresh schedule
- Removing the schedule for volume snapshot refresh
- Setting volume usage
- Enabling FastResync on volumes
- Managing file systems
- Creating file systems
- Defragmenting file systems
- Unmounting non clustered file systems from hosts
- Mounting non clustered file systems on hosts
- Unmounting clustered file systems
- Mounting clustered file systems on hosts
- Remounting file systems
- Checking file systems
- Creating file system snapshots
- Remounting file system snapshot
- Mounting file system snapshot
- Unmounting file system snapshot
- Removing file system snapshot
- Monitoring capacity of file systems
- Managing SmartIO
- About managing SmartIO
- Creating a cache
- Modifying a cache
- Creating an I/O trace log
- Analyzing an I/O trace log
- Managing application IO thresholds
- Managing replications
- Configuring Storage Foundation replications
- Pausing the replication to a Secondary
- Resuming the replication of a Secondary
- Starting replication to a Secondary
- Stopping the replication to a Secondary
- Switching a Primary
- Taking over from an original Primary
- Associating a volume
- Removing a Secondary
- Monitoring replications
- Optimizing storage utilization
- Section IV. Managing high availability and disaster recovery configurations
- Overview
- Managing clusters
- Managing service groups
- Creating service groups
- Linking service groups in a cluster
- Bringing service groups online
- Taking service groups offline
- Switching service groups
- Managing systems
- Managing resources
- Invoking a resource action
- Managing global cluster configurations
- Running fire drills
- Running the disaster recovery fire drill
- Editing a fire drill schedule
- Using recovery plans
- Managing application configuration
- Multi Site Management
- Appendix A. List of high availability operations
- Section V. Monitoring Storage Foundation HA licenses in the data center
- Managing licenses
- About Arctera licensing and pricing
- Assigning a price tier to a host manually
- Creating a license deployment policy
- Modifying a license deployment policy
- Viewing deployment information
- Managing licenses
- Monitoring performance
- About Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager performance graphs
- Managing Business Applications
- About the makeBE script
- Managing extended attributes
- Managing policy checks
- About using custom signatures for policy checks
- Managing Dynamic Multipathing paths
- Disabling the DMP paths on the initiators of a host
- Re-enabling the DMP paths
- Managing CVM clusters
- Managing Flexible Storage Sharing
- Monitoring the virtualization environment
- About discovering the VMware Infrastructure using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About the multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment
- About discovering Solaris zones
- About discovering logical domains in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About discovering LPARs and VIOs in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization discovery
- Using Web services API
- Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager command line interface
- Appendix B. Command file reference
- Appendix C. Application setup requirements
- Application setup requirements for Oracle database discovery
- Application setup requirements for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) discovery
- Application setup requirements for IBM DB2 discovery
- Application setup requirements for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) discovery
- Application setup requirements for Microsoft SQL Server discovery
About the Management Server console Home page
The following figure displays the Home page of the Management Server console. Click the icons to perform a specific category of task or view a specific category of information that is related to your data center. For example, click
to perform the tasks on clusters and service groups.The following options are available:
Dashboard: Provides an overall status of the data center (faults, risks, platform distribution, object status), and the information on inventory. You can also create a customized Dashboard.
Settings: Use this to set up the Management Server environment. For example, adding managed hosts, configuring virtualization servers, uploading solutions, configuring SAN switches, configuring storage enclosures, and so on.
An administrator needs to first perform the setup-related operations, and then use the perspectives for the specific tasks.
Settings is also referred to as the Management Server perspective.
Perspectives: Depending on the role of the user and the nature of the task to be performed, the tasks are grouped under the following perspectives:
Server: Lets you view the information on hosts and applications (databases, Microsoft Exchange, Virtual Business Service), view associated faults and risks, and generate reports on hosts, volumes, disks, and so on. You can create disk group, volume, file system, configure Application HA, and perform dynamic multi-pathing related operations on the hosts. The Server perspective provides a similar user interface and functionality as that of the VEA Java GUI.
Availability: Lets you perform the operations that are related to clusters, Virtual Business Services, and service groups. For example, you can create service group, Virtual Business Service, and recovery plan. You can also generate reports on High Availability-related objects. The Availability perspective provides a similar user experience and functionality as that of the VCS Java GUI and VCS Management console (VCSMC).
Virtualization: Lets you view the information on the configured virtualization servers, their associated virtual machines, associated faults and risks, and generate the reports on the virtualization objects and the associated storage. You can also perform dynamic multi-pathing related operations on the VMware ESX server.
Licensing: Provides the information on Storage Foundation High Availability licenses, the license deployment details, and reports.
Global Reports: Lets you view the collection of InfoScale deployment data from multiple management servers. You can access the Global Reports perspective from the top right corner of the menu bar. The Global Reports perspective lets you manage subscriptions for the available reports.