PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Solutions Design (PowerMax and VMAX All Flash Management Tools)

Question 1

What are factory tools for configuring PMax and VMAX?

Answer 1

SymmWin and Simplified Symmwin

Question 2

Where do factory tools run on PMax and VMAX?

Answer 2

run on management module control station (MMCS)

Question 3

What are factory tools used for on PMax and VMAX?

Answer 3

used to create initial configuration

access authorized to Dell employees

Question 4

What are end-user tools for configuring PMax and VMAX?

Answer 4

Solutions Enabler
CLI
Unisphere
GUI
Unisphere 360

Question 5

What do HTTPS requests do for end user tools?

Answer 5

allows GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE data commands

Question 6

What can be viewed on the Unisphere GUI?

Answer 6

capacity information
performance detail
health status
storage group compliance
replication activities

Question 7

What is SYMCLI?

Answer 7

Symmetrix Command Line Interface

Question 8

What does Solutions Enabler do?

Answer 8

provides the interface between the Storage Management Initiative (SMI) and the arrays

allows storage management and control from interfaces from multivendors

Question 9

What is Mainframe Enabler?

Answer 9

used to monitor and manage PMax and VMAX mainframe environments

Question 10

What is a REST API?

Answer 10

allows users to access diagnostic, performance, and configuration data and to perform provisioning operations on an array

Question 11

Where can you perform REST API commands?

Answer 11

can be performed in any programming language that supports standard REST clients

Question 12

What is the Unisphere Server?

Answer 12

where the Unisphere instance is running

can be either standalone on a host or embeddd in the array itself as a GuestOS

Question 13

What is SYMAPI?

Answer 13

Symmetrix Application Programming Interface

provides an access mechanism for managing arrays

Question 14

What is SMAPI used for?

Answer 14

can be used to develop storage management applications

Question 15

How does SYMAPI work?

Answer 15

SYMCLI commands are built on top of SYMAP library functions which uses systems calls that generate low level IO SCSI commands

Question 16

What is Solutions Enabler?

Answer 16

comprehensive command set for managing VMAX and PowerMax

Question 17

Where does Solutions Enabler live?

Answer 17

on a locally attached host

invoked from the local host to make configuration changes to a locally connected or an RDF-linked array

Question 18

What is the Managment Server?

Answer 18

customer provided host that is locally attached to a PowerMax or VMAX AF array

management software including Solutions Enabler must be installed on the host

Question 19

What is ECOM SMI-S Provider?

Answer 19

ECOM service and SMI-S Provider paired together to implement an SMI-compliant interface

Question 20

What is ECOM?

Answer 20

EMC Common Object Manager

enables communication and common services for applications

Question 21

What is SMI-S?

Answer 21

storage management initiative specification

standardization of storage management and its related technologies to increase interoperability

Question 22

What is SIL?

Answer 22

Symmetrix Interface Layer

processes the API and invokes one or more syscalls to fulfill requests

Question 23

What are HBAs?

Answer 23

provide ports for connectivity from the host to the array

Question 24

What do management servers use to communicate with the array?

Answer 24

Gatekeeper (GK) devices

sit virtually inside array

Question 25

What are the characteristics of GKs?

Answer 25

can be any volume accessible to the host are usually configured as smaller devices

Question 26

What is the recommendation when configuring GKs for PowerMax?

Answer 26

configure 6 or more dedicated GKs per management host to avoid using same devices used by application IO

Question 27

What is Solutions Enabler on remote host configuration?

Answer 27

SE supports clients/servers configuration for servers that are not directly attached to array client communicates to the SMAPI server over TCP/IP

Question 28

What is Solutions Enabler eManagement configuration?

Answer 28

eManagment runs as a GuestOS in a VM running on the array

Question 29

How do eManagement instances run on PowerMax?

Answer 29

run on the Fibre Channel FA emulation eliminates need for a separate management host

Question 30

What does eManagement not provide?

Answer 30

does not provide a direct command line interface for admins that want to use the command line of Solutions Enabler does however run a client/server mechanism by which this can be achieved

Question 31

How does a user gain access to the client/server mechanism in eManagement?

Answer 31

done w/ the vApp Manager for eManagement vApp Manager configured as a server which runs required daemons and provides SYMAPI server access for Solutions Enabler

Question 32

How is on-array access achieved on Solutions Enabler?

Answer 32

through the container services on the MMCS desktop

Question 33

What is Unisphere on a Local Host configuration?

Answer 33

Unisphere installed on a server running Solutions Enabler attached to array

Question 34

What is Unisphere on a Remote Host configuration?

Answer 34

Unisphere installed on a server that is connected to the SYMAPI server

Question 35

What does Unisphere 360 provide?

Answer 35

single centralized monitoring of up to 200 enrolled PowerMAX/VMAX systems