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
Flexible Storage Sharing features and support in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) is a feature of Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA). FSS is supported in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager as follows:
Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager checks if Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) clusters are FSS capable and if the cluster nodes have the required managed host version (Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager 8.0 or later) in order to perform FSS operations from Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager.
Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager discovers whether FSS is enabled for a disk group and the information is shown in the Management Server console for the disk group. Disk groups must be enabled for FSS before adding network shared disks.
Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager discovers whether a disk is exported (network shared disk), remote, or neither and will show the FSS state for a disk in the console.
Disk export is an FSS-specific operation performed on a disk that is locally visible to a host to make it visible to all hosts in the CVM cluster. A remote disk is a disk that has been exported from another host in the cluster.
The Management Server console contains wizards for support of the FSS operations of enabling/disabling FSS for an existing disk group and exporting/unexporting disks for shared use in the CVM cluster. Wizards for existing SF operations support FSS operations as needed.
CVM clusters (both FSS capable and non-FSS capable) are listed in the tree in the Server perspective. The cluster view in the Server perspective provides storage visualization views, including how each host in the cluster is using storage, how much is local, how much is remote, and so on. The Create Disk Group operation is available at the cluster level. Other SF operations are available from objects in the selected cluster.
You can create queries for a Cluster object in the Search feature on the Server perspective. For example, you can search for clusters with the attribute FSS Capable.
When you create a volume for a FSS-enabled disk group, you can specify to mirror the volume across hosts. To help validate that mirrored volumes are not based off local storage from a single host, you can register the Cross Enclosure/Host Mirroring policy signature for the hosts.
For more information on FSS requirements and limitations, see the SFCFSHA documentation.