Dell EMC VPLEX Geosynchrony Administration Guide
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Dell EMC VPLEX GeoSynchrony Administration Guide Version 6.2 June 2020 Rev. 1.0 Notes, cautions, and warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your product. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2020 2020 Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights reserved. Dell, EMC, and other trademarks are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be trademarks of their respective owners. Contents List of Figures........................................................................................................................................................ 10 List of Tables..........................................................................................................................................................13 Preface........................................................................................................................................................................................16 1 CLI Workspace and User Accounts................................................................................................18 Configure the CLI workspace.............................................................................................................................................18 Set/remove the login banner........................................................................................................................................18 Set the threshold for console logging..........................................................................................................................18 Set window width to 100...............................................................................................................................................19 Context tree searching..................................................................................................................................................19 Managing User Accounts................................................................................................................................................... 20 Role-based access.........................................................................................................................................................20 Add a user account....................................................................................................................................................... 20 First login to a new user account................................................................................................................................. 21 View or modify user account details............................................................................................................................21 Delete a user account................................................................................................................................................... 22 Change user account password.................................................................................................................................. 23 Reset a user account.................................................................................................................................................... 23 2 Digital Licensing.........................................................................................................................25 About digital licensing......................................................................................................................................................... 25 Using the Unisphere GUI to perform digital licensing.....................................................................................................25 Using the CLI to perform digital licensing........................................................................................................................ 25 3 Meta Volumes............................................................................................................................ 28 About meta-volumes...........................................................................................................................................................28 Metavolume performance and availability requirements..........................................................................................28 Creating a meta-volume.....................................................................................................................................................29 Backing up the meta-volume.............................................................................................................................................30 Back up the meta-volume: VPLEX Local................................................................................................................... 30 Back up the metavolume: VPLEX Metro.................................................................................................................... 31 Moving a meta-volume.......................................................................................................................................................33 Renaming a meta-volume...................................................................................................................................................33 Deleting a meta-volume......................................................................................................................................................34 Displaying metavolume....................................................................................................................................................... 35 Verifying consistency of a meta-volume.......................................................................................................................... 37 4 System Management.................................................................................................................. 38 SPS battery conditioning....................................................................................................................................................38 Battery conditioning cycle calendar............................................................................................................................ 38 When is it safe to start a conditioning cycle.............................................................................................................. 39 When to stop a conditioning cycle.............................................................................................................................. 39 Additional documentation.............................................................................................................................................39 Contents 3 Call-home notifications and system reporting.................................................................................................................40 About call-home notifications...................................................................................................................................... 40 Additional documentation..............................................................................................................................................41 Event log locations...............................................................................................................................................................41 Splitting log files...................................................................................................................................................................42 Hardware acceleration with VAAI......................................................................................................................................42 Compare and Write....................................................................................................................................................... 43 WriteSame (16)..............................................................................................................................................................45 Enabling/disabling WriteSame (16)............................................................................................................................. 45 Offload copy overhead with XCOPY................................................................................................................................ 46 Enabling and disabling XCOPY using CLI....................................................................................................................46 Displaying XCOPY statistics......................................................................................................................................... 47 Renaming a VPLEX cluster.................................................................................................................................................47 5 Distributed Devices.................................................................................................................... 49 Additional documentation...................................................................................................................................................49