Provides a graphical user interface for managing your array group manager cli. How to set up a dell equallogic configuration in a vmware. The dell equallogic group manager administrators manual and the group manager command line interface cli help describe how to use the cli to manage a nas cluster. Specifically were using psm4110e and psm4110x models in several. The new group name is not to be confused with the group name, thats already been created on the array. Create a new group and assign access, using the ps group name, group ip address, management ip address and grpadmin credentials. Collect the diagnostics report for the specific array or for the group from the group manager gui or from the array management command line interface. Monitor equallogic using system center operations manager. Using the group manager graphical user interface equallogic. Describes how to use the group manager command line interface cli to manage a ps series group and individual arrays. Add a dell equallogic ps series array san to system.
Toggle highlighting toggle navigation print topic print all. Visit the dell support site to download ps series firmware. The transaction may fail to start for users who have special connection requirements. There will be a link to run the gui as a java applet. How to replace a dell equallogic controller sps pros. You will not be able to see this at any transaction. In the gui, select the tools menu at the lower left hand corner. Import the management pack into scom according to the instructions in the user guide. If action is required, you can launch the ps series group manager directly from san hq so you can quickly adjust storage systems to meet business.
Eager readers want to know if equallogic array firmware upgrades are nondisruptive, so we tested it in our mighty remote environment. After installing equallogic hit and ran remote setup wizard. I am no sap gui expert, but i think that there is a way to lock the system definitions. Runs on windows and linux host systems and enables secure transfer of large amounts of data to a replication partner site when configuring disaster tolerance. Sets a gui status defined in an external function group. An initial setup is always a good opportunity to take a more indepth look at systems, while they are not yet in production. You must use the set pfstatus statement to set the status in a special function module in this function group.
The gui is a java applet thats downloaded from the group itself. Back in the days you were forced to use putty and gui which wasnt bad but you had to check a lot of things like which firmware to apply, make sure the disk. Sap solution manager sap gui shortcuts with sap router strings. Equallogic san basic initial iscsi setup virtualization. Equallogic group manager provides cli and a gui compatible with microsoft internet explorer and mozilla firefox web browsers. Thank you for your interest in equallogic ps series storage products from dell. If a controllercontrol module has failed you must replace it. When opening up a program that i knew was trusted in the example below i was accessing an equallogic gui, i typically just click ok and ignore any errors or warnings. For customer service support or questions please email us at equallogic customer service certified channel partner help desk to learn more about the partnerdirect program and how we can assist our partners be more successful with equallogic solutions please contact the resources in your area. Deployed as a standalone java application, dell storage update manager runs independently of group manager and san headquarters, but offers a similar interface and help features. Provides information about maintaining the array hardware.
Data transfer of an internal table form the server to a file on the pc. Prior planning before you get started configuring your equallogic san and vmware hosts, you will definitely be ahead of the game if you already have some things mapped out such as. Equallogic software is included in the cost of the array. Now that our new dell equallogic ps6000 is racked, networked, initialized and configured its time to bring the firmware version uptodate. Changing restricted access to a volume on an equallogic ps. If you are using the dedicated management feature then yes you use the management ip address to access the gui. Dell equallogic ps series array firmware update using. If you change the ip address of a group for which you are running the gui locally, or if you configure a management network for the group, you must uninstall the gui application and then install it again. Page 36 ps4210 hardware owners manual 3 maintaining control modules software steps see the dell equallogic group manager administrators manual for the procedure to configure the management network in the group manager gui. Technical support for technical support cases please login to techdirect or call 18009453355 us only.
Last week, i received a dell equallogic storage in saps lab to experiment how it works with sap. Equallogic array firmware upgrades are nondisruptive. Configuring dell equallogic management interface mike poulson. Sets another gui status defined in the same abap program, or deactivates functions of the standard gui status. This is for managing the device from a separate network than the iscsi traffic is on. After installing equallogic hit and ran remote setup wizard, open. We have discovered recently that if configuration is performed through the auto snapshot manager gui there is an issue, with the group admin credentials being correctly parsed to the configuration, and therefore we would recommend all configuration to be performed via windows powershell. Installing and starting the standalone gui application. You can then create a volume which a host can connect to using an iscsi initiator. Dell equallogic arrays are defined by serial numbers, not service tags. Hi experts, i have to add a new button to the application toolbar in the gui status. Mar 20, 2015 both ps are in the same equallogic group with firmware 7. As far as i know, there is no way to determine whether a user logged on with or without a logon group from the abap instance perspective.
Auto snapshot manager gui there is an issue, with the group admin. We can add and delete the logon groups using smlg tcode. How to find the dell equallogic service tag in group. Mar 07, 2014 best toys for 2019 toy fair new york 2019 best in show duration. Neweqlgroupaccess groupname group groupwkaddress 10. Jan 28, 2009 how to access equallogic group manager gui post a reply. Configuring and installing the equallogic multipathing. This is normally used to upload firmware updates or download diagnostic data.
The management packs provide a list of dellspecific views that you can use to observe and drill down the system status in a network. Gl group lead, rvraid verification, bcbattery charging, rrraid reconstruction. Equallogic san headquarters unable to download manager file 20214 by rasmus haslund 4 comments today a customer called me because he was unable to launch the equallogic group manager from within equallogic san hq. In the status line, you also see that the member is online and that it contains gl, which means it is currently the group lead. The ps series cli reference manual describes how to use the group manager cli to manage a group and individual arrays. Equallogic array software, including equallogic firmware, group manager and the manual transfer utility, delivers advanced storage area network san functions that automatically virtualize and optimize storage resources while providing advanced data protection and san management. It is also important to recognize that raid 50 is not a best practice for arrays with 3tb or larger sata and nlsas disk drives. Nov 25, 2015 all in all the setup went very smoothly and the equallogic software group manager interface is pretty intuitive. The code uses the latest inline data declaration syntax but i have included an abap code snippet at the end to show how declarations would look using the original method of declaring data variables up front. But having the ftp service running all the time can be a security risk.
Oct 06, 2009 when i disable the dedicated management lan for the equallogic, so that management and iscsi traffic occur on the same network using the group ip address, the xencentre dialog doesnt get this error, and im offered a list of existing srs actually none, or the ability to create a new one. This is how i set it up with a suse linux enterprise 10 as initiator. Recently, when trying to access an application through a web interface that uses java, i received the following error. Dell equallogic configuration guide pdf free download. The last few months we where asked several times to reset a password set on the main account for dell equallogic storage, also known as the grpadmin account. If we want to check this in the consolecli we need to connect to the group manager ip address trough ssh or ftp. Back to business so the conclusion is if you are still running with an old equallogic firmware v5.
Some time ago i was getting ramdisk full errors in vsphere and i did configure the persistent scratch partition to be located on this volume. For information about using the group manager cli, refer to the dell equallogic group manager cli reference guide located at login required. See the online help or the dell equallogic group manager cli reference. Lets failover the active controller on member 1 gl and see what happens. You can also access the cli on psm4110 systems with the dell me chassis management console cmc. The group manager graphical user interface gui enables you to perform group administration tasks using windows and dialog boxes. From a single gui, you can see information on all of the monitored ps series groups at a glance including configuration and performance of pools, members, disks and volumes, as well as any alerts. Problem connecting to equallogic with dedicated mgmt network. You would need to verify the users sap gui sap logon settings. Technical white paper hp appsystem for sap hana distributed architecture. In the java 7 security settings, you should ensure that the url for group manager has been added to the site list for security exceptions.
Restarting the equallogic group manager interface i have run in to a few occasions over the last couple of years where the equallogic group manager interface stops responding. Equallogic inuse space on volume warning vmware forum. You continue to search around the gui and find a tab under maintenance that says service tag, but it says no service tag. Health state change notification alerts are displayed for volume and disk groups. Group manager online help describes how to use the group manager graphical user interface gui to manage a nas cluster.
Rightclick the gui application for the group and select delete. When i enter the function code in a free item field, i get the message \function code xxxxx has not been assigned to a function key. See the cli reference manual for more information about using the cli. After hit is installed, you may get the iqn for use of restricting volume access in the equallogic group manager by typing the following. Equallogic group manager gui equallogic group manager cli equallogic manual transfer utility. Dell emc unity xt unified storage dell technologies us. Connect to your array group ip in your browser and choose group, member and then array member name and tab disks.
Oct 27, 2017 the sap solution manager contains html applications which start transactions in the sap gui for windows or java. Customers with a valid dell prosupport agreement can download software updates without paying additional license fees. Dell equallogic configuration guide dell storage engineering configure unified. This release contains the fix for the openssl vulnerability, also known as the heartbleed bug.
Apr 22, 2015 dell storage update manager has been out for a while. You can check the equallogic powershell snapin is registered by typing getpssnapin registered. Using the equallogic ps group manager, i can see under the volume that the free space is going down slowly when i checked earlier today 802. Find out what the key steps are for setting up a dell equallogic configuration for an iscsi san in a vmware virtual server environment, including group settings, ip addressing, raid configuration. Dell equallogic sans have an ftp service enabled on by default. In the group manager gui, expand tools in the far left. Use the group manager gui or cli to set the raid policy for the member. Available for download equallogic firmware is supported on the family of equallogic arrays. As you can see, some basic stats on the space is presented. Equallogic san headquarters unable to download manager file. Overview of dell equallogic products and resources. The manual transfer utility supports offnetwork replication of volume data.
In this case im looking at one of the advertised security measures of dell equallogic ps series systems. Theres no external application, its updated via the array. If you really dont know the password set on the grpadmin but still have physical access to it you can start a recovery procedure to reset the grpadmin account back to the default. Restarting the equallogic group manager interface virtual grind.
Equallogic group manager is available as a cli or gui with search functionality, accessible through web browsers with a connection to the equallogic san. Mar 08, 2010 the last few months we where asked several times to reset a password set on the main account for dell equallogic storage, also known as the grpadmin account. This video is part 1 in the 2part video series on daytoday management with dell storage manager dsm. The documentation for the ps6000e is some of the worse i have ever seen. In dell equallogic auto snapshot manager, ps group.
Dell equallogic ps series array firmware update using group manager gui. Apr 30, 2010 in sap abap logon groups are used for load balancing. Dell storage update manager supports ps series array firmware versions 6. Provides a graphical user interface for managing a group. Once you have downloaded the host integration tools for microsoft from the dell equallogic customer. Dell equallogic ps series security an initial setup is always a good opportunity to take a more indepth look at systems, while they are not yet in production. Usually, the statistics will start to fail or the login page is simply inaccessible. This may be the case for users who connect from outside the network where the solution manager system resides, and therefore require a specific sap. Open group manager and login with grpadmin and password, via web gui 2. In dell equallogic auto snapshot manager, ps group access can be checked and modified if required. It should also be noted that when updating the firmware from the group manager gui, the controllers will still be restarted, and it takes just as long as it does when updating via the cli. Depending on the java version, the gui application for a group might have two componentsthe applet and the library. Then you can proceed and download the required software. If you do not have an equallogic support account, you can request one from the same page.
This change is result of the growing class2 hdd capacities and the degree of data protection that different raid policies. There are two methods you can use to run the group manager gui. How to find the dell equallogic service tag in group manager. Equallogic ps series firmware update using the cli. Jun 18, 2011 the dell equallogic iscsi san supports an outofband management network interface. Page 26 dell equallogic fs7610 hardware owners manual. Best toys for 2019 toy fair new york 2019 best in show duration. Updating firmware for dell equallogic ps series storage. As we can see in the above image, we have hd firmware version kd08 and pd04, depending on the hd model. In this case im looking at one of the advertised security measures of dell equallogic ps series systems were currently in the process of implementing iscsibased dell equallogic ps series systems.
Connect to the equallogic group manager using a web browser to the ip address of the group. Dell emc unity xts clean and simple unisphere management gui simplifies the task of configuring and managing storage, enabling it organizations of any. The dell equallogic storage management pack suite for microsoft system. For more information, see the hardware documentation included with your system. Its an excellent way to upgrade the firmware on your dell arrays. If you have not enabled and configured that feature you would use the iscsi discovery address as the management ip address as well. Jan 23, 20 in this post ill describe the process of configuring monitoring of equallogic storage using system center operations manager 2012 scom. Firstly, download the equallogic management pack suite from the equallogic download centre. The ps series group administration manual provides details on storage concepts and how to use the group manager gui to manage a group. Provides a command line interface for managing a group. Learn sap gui graphical user interface tutorials, free online training material for beginners, free online tutorial course, in simple and easy steps starting from basic to advanced concepts with examples. Using dell equallogic storage with microsoft windows server pdf. Group manager gui and cli output the member controllers window or the member select show controllers command output shows the control module status not installed. Group manager is an easytouse san and nas management tool integrated with the dell equallogic ps series firmware.
Dell equallogic storage management pack suite dell us. Ssh to the ip of one of the ports on the san and not the group ip 2 once you. Customer service for customer service support or questions please email us at equallogic customer service certified channel partner help desk. The firmware update process halts ios during cutover from one controller to the other. The good news is that you almost cannot do anything that is wrong or takes you too much time. After our equallogic ps6000 decided to go into a netbsd kernel panic crash while performing a firmware update from version 5. Equallogic firmware updates ars technica openforum. Dell equalogic ps6000 how to upgrade array firmware and.
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