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SANtricity 11.9

SANtricity software overview

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E-Series systems include SANtricity software for storage provisioning and other tasks.

This site describes how to use the following SANtricity management interfaces:

  • System Manager — a web-based interface used for managing an individual storage array in your network.

  • Unified Manager — a web-based interface used for viewing and managing all storage arrays in your network.

Note EF600 and EF300 storage arrays do not support synchronous mirroring or thin volumes.

SANtricity System Manager

System Manager is web-based management software embedded on each controller. To access the user interface, point a browser to the controller's IP address. A setup wizard helps you get started with system configuration.

System Manager offers a variety of management features, including:

Performance Performance

View up to 30 days of performance data, including I/O latency, IOPS, CPU utilization, and throughput.

Storage Storage

Provision storage using pools or volume groups, and create application workloads.

Data Protection Data protection

Perform backup and disaster recovery using snapshots, volume copy, and remote mirroring.

Hardware Hardware

Check component status and perform some functions related to those components, such as assigning hot spare drives.

Alerts Alerts

Notify administrators about important events occurring on the storage array. Alerts can be sent through email, SNMP traps, and syslog.

Access Management Access Management

Configure user authentication that requires users to log in to the system with assigned credentials.

System Settings System Settings

Configure other system performance features, such as SSD cache and autoload balancing.

Support Support

View diagnostic data, manage upgrades, and configure AutoSupport, which monitors the health of a storage array and sends automatic dispatches to technical support.

SANtricity Unified Manager

Unified Manager is web-based software used for managing your entire domain. From a central view, you can see the status for all newer E-Series and EF-Series arrays, such as the E4000, E2800, EF280, EF300, E5700, EF570, and EF600. You can also perform batch operations on selected storage arrays.

Unified Manager is installed on a management server along with the Web Services Proxy. To access Unified Manager, you open a browser and enter the URL pointing to the server where the Web Services Proxy is installed.

Unified Manager offers a variety of management features, including:

Discover storage array Discover storage arrays

Find and add the storage arrays you want to manage in your organization's network. You can then view the status of all storage arrays from a single page.

Launch Launch

Open an instance of System Manager to perform individual management operations on a particular storage array.

Import Settings Import Settings

Perform a batch import from one storage array to multiple arrays, including settings for alerts, AutoSupport, and directory services.

Mirroring Mirroring

Configure asynchronous or synchronous mirrored pairs between two storage arrays.

Manage Groups Manage Groups

Organize storage arrays into groups for easier management.

Upgrade Center Upgrade Center

Upgrade the SANtricity OS software on multiple storage arrays.

Certificates Certificates

Create certificate signing requests (CSRs), import certificates, and manage existing certificates for multiple storage arrays.

Access Management Access Management

Configure user authentication that requires users to log in to Unified Manager with assigned credentials.