• SANtricity software 11.9 docs
  • Release notes
    • What's new
    • Release notes
  • Get started
    • Overview
    • Supported browsers and OSs
    • SANtricity System Manager setup
      • Access SANtricity System Manager
      • Setup wizard overview
      • Storage system setup FAQ
    • SANtricity Unified Manager setup
      • Install SANtricity Unified Manager
      • Access SANtricity Unified Manager
  • SANtricity System Manager
    • Main interface
      • SANtricity System Manager interface overview
      • View performance data
        • Overview
        • Performance graphs and guidelines
        • Performance terminology
        • View graphical performance data
        • View and save tabular performance data
        • Interpret performance data
      • View storage hierarchy
      • Manage interface settings
        • Manage password protection
        • Set default capacity values
        • Set defaults for performance graphs
        • Configure login banner
        • Manage session timeouts
      • Manage notifications
        • Problem notifications overview
        • View and act on operations in progress
        • Recover from problems using Recovery Guru
      • Management interface FAQ
    • Pools and volume groups
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How pools and volume groups work
        • Terms
        • Selecting a pool or volume group
        • Automatic versus manual pool creation
      • Configure storage
        • Create pool automatically
        • Create pool manually
        • Create volume group
        • Add capacity to pool or volume group
      • Manage storage
        • Check volume redundancy
        • Delete pool or volume group
        • Consolidate free capacity for a volume group
        • Export/Import volume groups
        • Locate drive used for storage
        • Remove capacity
      • Modify pool and group settings
        • Change configuration settings for a pool
        • Change configuration settings for a volume group
        • Enable or disable resource provisioning (existing volumes)
        • Enable or disable resource provisioning (new volumes)
        • Enable security
      • Manage SSD cache
        • How SSD Cache works
        • SSD Cache restrictions
        • Create SSD Cache
        • Change SSD Cache settings
        • View SSD Cache statistics
      • Manage reserved capacity
        • How reserved capacity works
        • Increase capacity
        • Decrease capacity
        • Change capacity for snapshot group
        • Change capacity for snapshot volume
        • Change capacity consistency group member volume
        • Change capacity settings for mirrored pair volume
        • Cancel pending snapshot image
        • Delete snapshot group
      • Pools and volume groups FAQ
    • Volumes and workloads
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How volumes work
        • How workloads work
        • Terms
        • Workflow for creating volumes
        • Data integrity and data security
        • SSD Cache and volumes
        • Actions you can perform on volumes
        • Capacity for volumes
        • Thin volume monitoring
        • Thick volumes versus thin volumes
      • Configure storage
        • Create workloads
        • Create volumes
        • Add to workload
      • Manage volumes
        • Increase capacity
        • Initialize volumes
        • Redistribute volumes
        • Change controller ownership
        • Delete volume
        • Change allocated capacity for thin volumes
      • Manage settings
        • Change volume settings
        • Change workload settings
        • Change cache settings
        • Change media scan settings
      • Use copy services
        • Copy Volume function
        • Types of operations
        • Copy volumes
        • Manage operations
      • Volumes and workloads FAQ
    • Hosts and host clusters
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • Terms
        • Workflow for host creation and volume assignment
        • Manual host creation
        • How volumes are assigned
        • Access volumes
        • Maximum number of LUNs
        • Default host operating system type
      • Configure host access
        • Create host manually
        • Create host cluster
        • Assign volumes to hosts
      • Manage hosts and clusters
        • Change default host type
        • Unassign volumes
        • Delete host or host cluster
        • Set host connectivity reporting
      • Manage settings
        • Change settings for host
        • Change settings for host cluster
        • Change host port identifiers for host
      • Host systems and host clusters FAQ
    • Snapshots
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How snapshot storage works
        • Terms
        • Workflow for creating snapshot images and volumes
        • Requirements
        • Base volumes, reserved capacity, and snapshot groups
        • Snapshot schedules and snapshot consistency groups
        • Snapshot volumes
        • Snapshot rollback
      • Create snapshots and snapshot objects
        • Create snapshot image
        • Schedule snapshot images
        • Create snapshot consistency group
        • Create snapshot volumes
      • Manage snapshot schedules
        • Change settings
        • Activate and suspend
        • Delete snapshot schedule
      • Manage snapshot images
        • View snapshot image settings
        • Start snapshot image rollback for base volume
        • Start snapshot image rollback for snapshot consistency group member volumes
        • Resume snapshot image rollback
        • Cancel snapshot image rollback
        • Delete snapshot image
      • Manage snapshot consistency groups
        • Add member volume
        • Remove member volume
        • Change settings
        • Delete snapshot consistency group
      • Manage snapshot volumes
        • Convert snapshot volume to read-write mode
        • Change volume settings for snapshot volume
        • Copy snapshot volume
        • Re-create snapshot volume
        • Disable snapshot volume
        • Delete snapshot volume
      • Snapshots FAQ
    • Mirroring
      • Overview
        • Async mirroring
        • Sync mirroring
      • Async concepts
        • How asynchronous mirroring works
        • Terms
        • Workflow
        • Requirements
        • Asynchronous mirror status
        • Volume ownership
        • Role change of a mirror consistency group
      • Sync concepts
        • How synchronous mirroring works
        • Terms
        • Workflow
        • Requirements
        • Synchronous mirroring status
        • Volume ownership
        • Role change between volumes in a mirrored pair
      • Manage async mirror consistency groups
        • Test communication
        • Suspend or resume synchronization
        • Change sync settings
        • Re-sync mirror consistency group
        • View unsync data amount
        • Update remote IP address
        • Change mirror consistency group role
        • Delete mirror consistency group
      • Manage async mirrored pairs
        • Remove async mirror relationship
        • Increase reserved capacity
        • Change reserved capacity for mirrored pair volume
        • Complete mirrored pair for primary volumes created on legacy system
      • Manage sync mirrored pairs
        • Test communication
        • Suspend and resume synchronization
        • Change role between volumes
        • Change sync settings
        • Remove mirror relationship
      • Deactivate mirroring
        • Deactivate async mirroring
        • Deactivate sync mirroring
      • Async mirroring FAQ
      • Sync mirroring FAQ
    • Remote storage
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How Remote Storage works
        • Terms
        • Feature requirements
        • Volume requirements
      • Manage remote storage
        • Import remote storage
        • Manage progress of remote storage imports
        • Modify connection settings for remote storage
        • Remove remote storage object
      • Remote storage FAQ
    • Hardware components
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • Hardware page
        • Terms
      • Manage shelf components
        • View hardware components
        • Show or hide component status
        • Switch between front and back views
        • Change view order of shelves
        • Turn on shelf locator light
        • Change shelf IDs
        • View shelf component status and settings
        • Update battery learn cycles
      • Manage controllers
        • Controller states
        • Considerations for assigning IP addresses
        • Configure management port
        • Configure NTP server addresses
        • Configure DNS server addresses
        • View controller settings
        • Configure remote login (SSH)
        • Place controller online
        • Place controller offline
        • Place controller in service mode
        • Reset (reboot) controller
      • Manage iSCSI ports
        • Configure iSCSI ports
        • Configure iSCSI authentication
        • Enable iSCSI discovery settings
        • View iSCSI statistics packages
        • View iSCSI sessions
        • End iSCSI session
        • Configure iSER over InfiniBand ports
        • View iSER over InfiniBand statistics
      • Manage NVMe ports
        • NVMe overview
        • Configure NVMe over InfiniBand ports
        • Configure NVMe over RoCE ports
        • View NVMe over Fabrics statistics
      • Manage drives
        • Drive states
        • Solid State Disks (SSDs)
        • Limit drive view
        • Turn on drive locator light
        • View drive status and settings
        • Replace drive logically
        • Reconstruct drive manually
        • Initialize (format) drive
        • Fail drive
        • Erase drives
        • Unlock or reset locked NVMe or FIPS drives
      • Manage hot spares
        • Hot spare drive overview
        • Assign hot spares
        • Unassign hot spares
      • Storage shelf FAQ
      • Storage controller FAQ
      • iSCSI protocol FAQ
      • NVMe protocol FAQ
      • Storage drives FAQ
    • Alerts
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How alerts work
        • Terms
      • Manage email alerts
        • Configure mail server and recipients
        • Edit email addresses
        • Add email addresses
        • Delete mail server or email addresses
        • Edit mail server
      • Manage SNMP alerts
        • Configure SNMP alerts
        • Add trap destinations
        • Configure SNMP MIB variables
        • Edit communities
        • Edit user settings
        • Add communities
        • Add users
        • Remove communities
        • Remove users
        • Delete trap destinations
      • Manage syslog alerts
        • Configure syslog server
        • Edit syslog servers
        • Add syslog servers
        • Delete syslog servers
      • Storage system alerts FAQ
    • Array settings
      • Settings overview
      • Concepts
        • Cache settings and performance
        • Automatic load balancing overview
      • Configure array settings
        • Edit storage array name
        • Turn on storage array locator lights
        • Synchronize storage array clocks
        • Save storage array configuration
        • Clear storage array configuration
        • Change cache settings
        • Set automatic load balancing
        • Enable or disable legacy management interface
      • Configure add-on features
        • How add-on features work
        • Add-on terms
        • Obtain feature key file
        • Enable premium feature
        • Enable feature pack
      • Download CLI
      • Storage array settings FAQ
    • Drive security
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How Drive Security feature works
        • How security key management works
        • Terms
      • Configure security keys
        • Create internal security key
        • Create external security key
      • Manage security keys
        • Change security key
        • Switch from external to internal key management
        • Edit key management server settings
        • Back up security key
        • Validate security key
        • Unlock drives when using internal key management
        • Unlock drives when using external key management
      • Storage drive security FAQ
    • Access management
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How Access Management works
        • Terms
        • Permissions for mapped roles
        • Local user roles
        • Directory services
        • SAML
        • Access tokens
      • Use local user roles
        • View local user roles
        • Change passwords
        • Change local user password settings
      • Use directory services
        • Add directory server
        • Edit directory server settings and role mappings
        • Remove directory server
      • Use SAML
        • Configure SAML
        • Change SAML role mappings
        • Export SAML Service Provider files
      • Use access tokens
        • Create access tokens
        • Edit access token settings
        • Revoke access tokens
      • Manage syslog
        • 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
      • User access management FAQ
    • Certificates
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How certificates work
        • Terms
      • Use certificates
        • Use CA-signed certificates for controllers
        • Reset management certificates
        • View imported certificate info
        • Import certificates for controllers when acting as clients
        • Enable certificate revocation checking
        • Delete trusted certificates
        • Use CA-signed certificates for authentication server
        • Export key management server certificates
      • Certificates FAQ
    • Support
      • Overview
      • View information and diagnostics
        • View storage array profile
        • View software and firmware inventory
      • Collect diagnostic data
        • Collect support data manually
        • Collect configuration data
        • Retrieve recovery support files
        • Retrieve trace buffers
        • Collect I/O path statistics
        • Retrieve health image
      • Take recovery actions
        • View unreadable sectors log
        • Re-enable drive ports
        • Clear recovery mode
      • Manage AutoSupport
        • AutoSupport feature overview
        • Workflow for the AutoSupport feature
        • Enable or disable AutoSupport features
        • Configure AutoSupport delivery method
        • Schedule AutoSupport dispatches
        • Send AutoSupport dispatches
        • View AutoSupport status
        • View AutoSupport log
        • Enable AutoSupport maintenance window
        • Disable AutoSupport maintenance window
      • View events
        • Event log overview
        • View event log
      • Manage upgrades
        • Overview
        • Upgrade software and firmware
        • Activate controller software and firmware
        • Upgrade drive firmware
        • Review the possible software and firmware upgrade errors
      • AutoSupport FAQ
  • SANtricity Unified Manager
    • Main interface
      • SANtricity Unified Manager interface overview
      • Supported browsers
      • Set admin password protection
      • Change the admin password
      • Manage session timeouts
    • Storage arrays
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • Considerations for discovering arrays
        • Considerations for accessing SANtricity System Manager
      • Discover arrays
        • Discover multiple storage arrays
        • Discover single array
      • Manage arrays
        • View array status
        • Manage an individual storage array
        • Change array passwords
        • Remove arrays from view
    • Settings import
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How Import Settings works
        • Requirements for replicating storage configurations
      • Use batch imports
        • Import alert settings
        • Import AutoSupport settings
        • Import directory services settings
        • Import system settings
        • Import storage configuration settings
      • Import settings FAQ
    • Array groups
      • Overview
      • Configure groups
      • Remove arrays from group
      • Delete group
      • Rename group
    • Upgrades
      • Overview
      • Upgrade software and firmware
        • Perform pre-upgrade health check
        • Upgrade SANtricity OS
        • Activate staged OS software
        • Manage software repository
        • Clear staged OS software
    • Mirroring
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How mirroring works
        • Configuration workflow
        • Terms
        • Requirements
      • Configure mirroring
        • Create asynchronous mirrored pair
        • Create synchronous mirrored pair
      • Storage mirroring FAQ
    • Certificates
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How certificates work
        • Terms
      • Use management host certificates
      • Reset management certificates
      • Use array certificates
        • Import certificates for arrays
        • Delete trusted certificates
        • Resolve untrusted certificates
      • Manage certificates
        • View certificates
        • Export certificates
    • Access management
      • Overview
      • Concepts
        • How Access Management works
        • Terms
        • Permissions for mapped roles
        • Local user roles
        • Directory services
        • SAML
      • Use local user roles
        • View local user roles
        • Change passwords
        • Change local user password settings
      • Use directory services
        • Add directory server
        • Edit directory server settings and role mappings
        • Remove directory server
      • Use SAML
        • Configure SAML
        • Change SAML role mappings
        • Export SAML Service Provider files
      • User access management FAQ
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