Administering
You can use the management GUI or the command-line interface (CLI) to administer your system.
- Managing the system
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to manage your system (clustered systems). - Managing security
The system supports several security related features that can help protect system data and resources from unauthorized access. - Managing cloud accounts
A cloud account is an object on the system that represents a connection to a cloud service provider by using a particular set of credentials. These credentials differ depending on the type of cloud service provider that is being specified. Most cloud service providers require the host name of the cloud service provider and an associated password, and some cloud service providers also require certificates to authenticate users of the cloud storage. Public clouds use certificates that are signed by well-known certificate authorities. Private cloud service providers can use either self-signed certificate or a certificate that is signed by a trusted certificate authority. These credentials are defined on the cloud service provider and passed to the system through the administrators of the cloud service provider. A cloud account defines whether the system can successfully communicate and authenticate with the cloud service provider by using the account credentials. If the system is authenticated, it can then access cloud storage to either copy data to the cloud storage or restore data that is copied to cloud storage back to the system. The system supports one cloud account to a single cloud service provider. Migration between providers is not supported. You can manage cloud accounts with the management GUI or the command-line interface. - Managing I/O groups
A pair of nodes is known as an input/output (I/O ) group. You can use the command-line interface and the management GUI to manage I/O groups. - Managing MDisks and pools
You can use the management GUI or the command line interface to work with your managed disks (MDisks) and storage pools - Managing volumes
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to manage volumes that you have created on the system. To work with volumes in the management GUI, select Volumes. - Managing cloud volumes
A cloud volume is any volume that is enabled for transparent cloud tiering. After transparent cloud tiering is enabled on a volume, point-in-time copies, or snapshots, can be created and copied to cloud storage that is provided by a cloud service provider. These snapshots can be restored to the system for disaster recovery purposes. Before you create cloud volumes, a valid connection to a supported cloud service provider must be configured. - Managing hosts
You can use several tools to manage hosts, including the management GUI, the command-line interface (CLI), and specialized utilities for working with host bus adapters. To work with hosts in the management GUI, select Hosts. - Managing host clusters
A host cluster is a group of logical host objects that can be managed together. For example, you can create a volume mapping that is shared by every host in the host cluster. The systems use internal protocols to manage access to the volumes and ensure consistency of the data. Host objects that represent hosts can be grouped in a host cluster and share access to volumes. New volumes can also be mapped to a host cluster, which simultaneously maps that volume to all hosts that are defined in the host cluster. - Managing Copy Services
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to manage the Copy Services features of FlashCopy®, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror. - Managing external storage system
Use the command-line interface (CLI) to manage external storage systems. To work with storage systems in the management GUI, select Pools > External Storage. - Managing nodes
You can manage nodes with either the command-line interface or the management GUI.