Support for Dense Storage Array Enclosure
The MD Series Dense storage array is a five-drawer 4U enclosure managed by dual SAS, iSCSI (1 Gbps or 10 Gbps), or
Fibre Channel (8 Gbps) RAID controller modules. The array can be expanded up to 120 physical disks (or 180 with
premium feature activation) by attaching up to two MD3060e (SAS based) expansion enclosures.
Support For New Storage Management Features
This release includes support for Dynamic Disk Pooling and Asymmetric Logic Unit Access (ALUA).
Redesigned MD Storage Manager Array Management Window
The Array Management Window (AMW) has several new or renamed main menu options.
New Main Menu option Feature/Function
Storage Create disk pools, virtual disks, and virtual disk groups.
Host Mappings Define hosts and create host-to-array mappings.
Hardware Set RAID controller, drawer, physical disk, and LUN IDs,
and blink array components.
Monitor View system performance parameters, perform
troubleshooting operations, and view other support
information.
Upgrade Upgrade and inventory RAID controller or expansion
module firmware, NVSRAM, and view other enclosure
configuration.
The AMW tabs have changed as follows.
Previous Tab Name New Tab Name Feature/Function
Logical Storage & Copy Services Create and manage virtual disk
copies, snapshots, and remote
replication.
Physical Hardware Shows storage array physical
component in graphical view and
supports ability to manage each
component on the storage array.
Mappings Host Mappings Shows the tree view of defined and
undefined storage space, host servers
and host port IDs.
Support Not Available Deleted from this release.
MD Storage Manager Online Help
In some cases, the MD Storage Manager online help describes storage management features that are not supported in
this release. Additionally, some terminology used in the online help may be inconsistent.
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