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In SANtricity System Manager, you can upgrade the controller software and firmware by following these steps.
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- SANtricity 11.6 docs
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System Manager
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Main interface
- Home page
- What's new
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Setup wizard
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Concepts
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FAQs
- What if I don’t see all of my hardware components?
- What if I don’t see all of my hosts?
- How does identifying applications help me manage my storage array?
- What is a workload?
- How do I configure the delivery method for AutoSupport?
- How do I know if I should accept the recommended pool configuration?
- System Manager has not detected any hosts. What do I do?
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Storage array administration
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Storage
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Pools and volume groups
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Concepts
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How tos
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Create pools and volume groups
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Manage pools, volume groups, and SSD Cache
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Manage drives
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Manage reserved capacity
- Increase reserved capacity
- Decrease reserved capacity
- Change the reserved capacity settings for a snapshot group
- Change the reserved capacity settings for a snapshot volume
- Change the reserved capacity settings for a consistency group member volume
- Change the reserved capacity settings for a mirrored pair volume
- Cancel pending snapshot image
- Delete snapshot group
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FAQs
- What is a hot spare drive?
- What is a volume group?
- What is a pool?
- What is reserved capacity?
- What is FDE/FIPS security?
- What is redundancy check?
- What are the differences between pools and volume groups?
- Why would I want to manually configure a pool?
- Why are capacity alerts important?
- Why can’t I increase my preservation capacity?
- Is there a limit on the number of drives I can remove from a pool?
- What media types are supported for a drive?
- Why are some drives not showing up?
- How do I maintain shelf/drawer loss protection?
- What RAID level is best for my application?
- What is Data Assurance?
- What is secure-capable (Drive Security)?
- What do I need to know about increasing reserved capacity?
- Why can’t I choose another amount to decrease by?
- Why do I need reserved capacity for each member volume?
- How do I view and interpret all SSD Cache statistics?
- What is optimization capacity for pools?
- What is optimization capacity for volume groups?
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Volumes
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Concepts
- Volumes in the storage array
- Volume terminology
- Workflow for creating volumes
- Data integrity and data security for volumes
- SSD Cache and volumes
- Application-specific workloads
- Actions you can perform on volumes
- Capacity for volumes
- Thin volume monitoring
- Comparison between thick volumes and thin volumes
- Copy Volume function
- Types of Copy Volume operations
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How tos
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FAQs
- What is a volume?
- Why am I seeing a capacity over-allocation error when I have enough free capacity in a volume group to create volumes?
- How does my selected workload impact volume creation?
- Why aren’t these volumes associated with a workload?
- Why can’t I delete the selected workload?
- How do application-specific workloads help me manage my storage array?
- How does providing this information help create storage?
- What do I need to do to recognize the expanded capacity?
- Why don’t I see all my pools and/or volume groups?
- What is segment size?
- What is preferred controller ownership?
- What is Automatic Load Balancing?
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Hosts
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Performance
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Snapshots
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Concepts
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How tos
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FAQs
- Why don’t I see all my volumes, hosts, or host clusters?
- What is a snapshot image?
- Why use snapshot images?
- What kinds of volumes can be used for snapshots?
- Why would I create a snapshot consistency group?
- What is a snapshot volume and when does it need reserved capacity?
- What is a snapshot group?
- Why would I disable a snapshot volume?
- What is the Disabled state?
- Why would I suspend a snapshot schedule?
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Mirroring
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Asynchronous mirroring
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Concepts
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How tos
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Manage mirror consistency groups
- Test communication for mirror consistency groups
- Suspend or resume synchronization for mirror consistency group
- Change synchronization settings for a mirror consistency group
- Re-synchronize mirror consistency group manually
- View unsynchronized data amount between mirror consistency groups
- Update remote IP address
- Change mirror consistency group role to primary or secondary
- Delete mirror consistency group
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Manage asynchronous mirrored pairs
- Deactivate asynchronous mirroring
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FAQs
- How does asynchronous mirroring differ from synchronous mirroring?
- Why can’t I access my chosen mirroring feature?
- What do I need to know before creating a mirror consistency group?
- Asynchronous mirroring - What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?
- What do I need to know before increasing my reserved capacity on a mirrored pair volume?
- Why can’t I increase reserved capacity with my requested amount?
- Why would I change this percentage?
- Why do I see more than one reserved capacity candidate?
- Why do I see Not Available values displayed in the table?
- Why don’t I see all of my pools and volume groups?
- Asynchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all my volumes?
- Asynchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage array?
- Why would I update my remote storage array’s IP address?
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Synchronous mirroring
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Concepts
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How tos
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FAQs
- How does synchronous mirroring differ from asynchronous mirroring?
- Synchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all my volumes?
- Synchronous mirroring - Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage array?
- Synchronous mirroring - What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?
- What impact does synchronization priority have on synchronization rates?
- Why is it recommended to use a manual synchronization policy?
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Hardware
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Shelves
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Controllers
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Concepts
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How tos
- Configure management port
- Configure iSCSI ports
- Configure iSER over InfiniBand ports
- Configure NVMe over InfiniBand ports
- Configure NVMe over RoCE ports
- Configure NTP server addresses
- Configure DNS server addresses
- View controller settings
- Allow remote login
- Place controller online
- Place controller offline
- Place controller in service mode
- Reset (reboot) controller
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FAQs
- What is auto-negotiation?
- What is IPv6 stateless address auto-configuration?
- Which do I choose — DHCP or manual configuration?
- What is a DHCP server?
- How do I configure my DHCP server?
- Why do I need to change the controller network configuration?
- Where do I get the network configuration?
- What are ICMP PING responses?
- When should I refresh the port configuration or the iSNS server from the DHCP server?
- What should I do after configuring the management ports?
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Drives
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Settings
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Alerts
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System: Storage array settings
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Concepts
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How tos
- Edit storage array name
- Turn on storage array locator lights
- Synchronize storage array clocks
- Save storage array configuration
- Clear storage array configuration
- Configure login banner
- Manage session timeouts
- Change cache settings for the storage array
- Set host connectivity reporting
- Set automatic load balancing
- Change default host type
- Enable or disable legacy management interface
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FAQs
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System: iSCSI settings
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System: NVMe settings
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Concepts
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How tos
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FAQs
- How do I interpret NVMe over Fabrics statistics?
- What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose NVMe over InfiniBand?
- What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose NVMe over RoCE?
- Why are there two IP addresses for one physical port?
- Why are there two sets of parameters for one physical port?
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System: Add-on features
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System: Security key management
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Concepts
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How tos
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FAQs
- What do I need to know before creating a security key?
- Why do I need to define a pass phrase?
- Why is it important to record security key information?
- What do I need to know before backing up a security key?
- What do I need to know before unlocking secure drives?
- What is read/write accessibility?
- What do I need to know about validating the security key?
- What is the difference between internal security key and external security key management?
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Access Management
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Concepts
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How tos
- View local user roles
- Change passwords
- Change local user password settings
- Add directory server
- Edit directory server settings and role mappings
- Remove directory server
- Configure SAML
- Change SAML role mappings
- Export SAML Service Provider files
- View audit log activity
- Define audit log policies
- Delete events from the audit log
- Configure syslog server for audit logs
- Edit syslog server settings for audit log records
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FAQs
- Why can’t I log in?
- What do I need to know before adding a directory server?
- What do I need to know about mapping to storage array roles?
- Which external management tools may be affected by this change?
- What do I need to know before configuring and enabling SAML?
- What types of events are recorded in the audit log?
- What do I need to know before configuring a syslog server?
- The syslog server is no longer receiving audit logs. What do I do?
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Certificates
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Concepts
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How tos
- Use CA-signed certificates for controllers
- Reset management certificates
- View imported certificate information
- Import certificates for controllers when acting as clients
- Enable certificate revocation checking
- Delete trusted certificates
- Use CA-signed certificates for authentication with a key management server
- Export key management server certificates
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FAQs
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Support
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Support center
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Concepts
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How tos
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View storage array information
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Collect diagnostic data
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Take recovery action on storage array status
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Manage iSCSI connections
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Manage NVMe connections
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Manage AutoSupport
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FAQs
- What data am I collecting?
- What does unreadable sectors data show me?
- What is a health image?
- What else do I need to do to configure or diagnose iSCSI?
- What do the AutoSupport features do?
- What type of data is collected through the AutoSupport feature?
- How do I configure the delivery method for the AutoSupport feature?
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Event log
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Upgrade center
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Unified Manager
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Main interface
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Manage
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Discover storage arrays
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Launch
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Import Settings
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Manage Groups
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Upgrade Center
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Mirroring
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Concepts
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How tos
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FAQs
- What do I need to know before creating a mirror consistency group?
- What do I need to know before creating a mirrored pair?
- Why would I change this percentage?
- Why do I see more than one reserved capacity candidate?
- Why don’t I see all my volumes?
- Why don’t I see all the volumes on the remote storage array?
- What impact does synchronization priority have on synchronization rates?
- Why is it recommended to use a manual synchronization policy?
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Certificates and authentication
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- Legal notices