Managing Your Appliance; Monitoring The Status Of The Appliance; Provisioning Storage - Dell DL4000 User Manual

Managing Your Appliance

The Core Console includes an Appliance tab, which you can use to provision space, monitor the health
of the appliance, and access management tools.

Monitoring the status of the Appliance

You can monitor the status of the Appliance subsystems by using the Appliance tab Overall Status page.
The Overall Status page displays a status light next to each subsystem, along with a status description
indicating the health of the subsystem.
The Overall Status page also provides links to tools that drill down into the details of each subsystem,
which can be helpful for troubleshooting warnings or errors. The System Administrator link, available for
the Appliance Hardware and Storage Hardware subsystems, prompts you to log on to the System
Administrator application used for managing hardware. For more information about the System
Administrator application, see the OpenManage Server Administrator User's Guide on dell.com/support/
home. The Provisioning Status link, available for the Storage Provisioning subsystem, opens the Tasks
screen which displays the provisioning status of that subsystem. If storage is available for provisioning, a
link to Provision under Actions displays next to the provision task.

Provisioning storage

The appliance configures available DL4000 internal storage and any attached external storage enclosures
for:
• AppAssure Repositories
NOTE: If fibre channel HBA is configured then the process of creating the repositories is manual.
AppAssure will not create a repository automatically in the root directory. For more information,
see the Dell DL4000 Appliance Deployment Guide.
• Virtual Standby of Protected Machines
NOTE: MD1400s with 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB or 6 TB (for high capacity) drives connected to the H830
controller are supported. Up to four MD 1400s are supported.
NOTE: The DL4000 high-capacity configuration supports either H810 PERC SAS adapter or two
Fibre Channel HBAs. For more information on configuring fibre channel HBAs, see the DL4xxx —
Fibre Channel Implementation whitepaper located at dell.com/support/home.
Before you begin provisioning storage on the disk, determine how much storage you want for standby
virtual machines. You can allocate any percentage of the available capacity to host standby virtual
machines. For example, if you are using Storage Resource Management (SRM), you can allocate up to
100 percent capacity on any device being provisioned to host virtual machines. Using AppAssure's Live
Recovery feature, you can use these virtual machines to quickly replace any failed server that the
appliance protects.
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