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Demo Lab Guide – Compellent
SC4020 Feature Walk-through
Product Domain: Storage
Author: Joseph Correia Version: 1.01 Date: 22/01/2016
Table of Contents 1 Product Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 3
1.1 Lab Preparation Considerations and Caveats ....................................................................................... 4
2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
2.1 Lab Topology and Essential Information................................................................................................. 5
2.1.1 Element Access ........................................................................................................................................... 6
3 Compellent SC4020 ............................................................................................................................................. 8
3.1 Ease of Use and Automation – Volume Management ............................................................ 8
3.1.1 Create a new volume ............................................................................................................................ 9
3.1.2 Map volume to a server ....................................................................................................................... 11
3.1.3 View the volume in Windows ........................................................................................................... 14
3.1.4 5.3.6 Create a new Datastore ............................................................................................................ 17
3.1.5 5.3.7 Expand the Datastore ................................................................................................................ 22
3.1.6 5.3.8 Delete a Datastore .................................................................................................................... 23
3.1.7 Add a Raw Device Mapping to a Virtual Machine ....................................................................... 24
3.1.8 Delete a RDM ...........................................................................................................................................27
3.1.9 VM Storage Profiles ............................................................................................................................... 28
3.1.10 Delete VM Storage Profiles ................................................................................................................ 32
3.2 Data Protection ..................................................................................................................................... 34
3.2.1 Create a Manual Replay ....................................................................................................................... 34
3.2.2 Delete Files to Simulate Recovery Need ...................................................................................... 35
3.2.3 Local Recovery ...................................................................................................................................... 36
3.2.4 Delete the View Volume .....................................................................................................................37
3.2.5 Create a Replication ............................................................................................................................. 38
3.2.6 Viewing Replications ........................................................................................................................... 40
3.2.7 Reporting and Alerting (Managing) .................................................................................................. 41
3.2.8 How do I see what’s going on? ...................................................................................................... 43
3.2.9 Alerts and Thresholds Configuration ............................................................................................. 47
3.2.10 Chargeback .................................................................................................................................... 49
1 Product Overview
To compete with big business, you need efficient, real-time data access to quickly turn customer
interactions into transactions and information into insights. The Dell Storage SC4020 puts the high IOPs
and low latency your applications demand within reach.
Consider these top features:
- Auto-tuned for maximum performance and cost-savings based on real-time usage information
- FLASH-optimized for affordable all-flash or hybrid SSD/HDD deployments
- Fiber Channel or iSCSI SAN support included, with high-performance scale-out NAS option
- Perpetual software licensing for low lifecycle costs
- Award-winning Copilot Support
1.1 Lab Preparation Considerations and Caveats
It is in your best interests to ensure the demo environment you will be demonstrating is clean & tidy
before you begin. For this reason we would recommend, where possible, you log in to your demo at least
15 minutes prior to delivery and check the following;
1. Familiarize yourself with the environment during this time and check any specific features you are
expecting to demo.
2. Most importantly, be crystal clear with yourself on what it is you plan to show. A full demo of every
feature described below (with questions) can take several hours. If you only have a short time slot
be sure to focus on the key points that address the customer’s pain points and will drive value home
to them.
3. Ensure that you have scheduled the demo for sufficient time so as not to have the demo end before
you are finished with the customer.
Any other guidance on how the user should prepare for the lab can be added here. If there are limitation
or something the user should be aware of call out also.
2 Introduction
In this addendum you will find the demos suggested to use during module 6.There are six (6) unique
demos with internal labs using six (6) different types of Dell technology. Each demo will supply additional
information that you will use in conjunction with the basic demo tasks listed.
The purpose of this document is to provide the Dell Technical Sales force with the tools they need to
deliver an effective live demonstration of the Dell Compellent Storage Center v6.3 capabilities. These
include – but are not limited to – the following elements:
- Storage Center System Manager 6.3 web interface (SCSM)
- Enterprise Manager 6.3 (EM)
- Compellent vCenter Plug-in 1.5.3/2.0
2.1 Lab Topology and Essential Information
2.1.1 Element Access
Logging into Enterprise Manager:
On the desk top double click on the Enterprise Manager Client icon and enter the following details when
prompted:
- Username: Admin
- Password: password
Note: Host/IP and Web Server port will be pre-populated and should not be changed.
Logging into vCenter Server:
Double-click the vSphere client icon. The Client will log you in automatically.
Logging into Storage Center:
Double-click on the Compellent Storage Center icon and enter the following details when prompted:
- Username: Admin
3 Compellent SC4020
3.1 Ease of Use and Automation – Volume Management
In this demo you will be performing the following tasks:
- Create a New Volume
- Map a Volume to Server
- View the Volume in Windows
- Create a New Datastore
- Add a Raw Device Mapping to a VM
- Delete a Raw Mapping Device
- VM Storage Profiles
- Delete VM Storage Profiles
Gotha’s:
- Although it is true that we do not pre-allocate space on the volume there are always some
pages pre-allocated in the page-pool in order to ensure high performance when receiving new
writes. Be sure to use the correct language when describing the zero pre-allocation of space.
- Create a volume that is 2TB or smaller. Although Windows supports volumes larger than 2TB,
these disks need to be initiated as GPT disks and this adds another step to the process.
Remember we are trying to demonstrate simplicity and ease of use so the fewer steps the
better.
3.1.1 Create a new volume 1. From the System Explorer in the Storage Center GUI, expand the Storage view, right click Volumes
and select Create Volume. The New Volume wizard opens.
2. The Volume Size screen is displayed. Enter the desired size. Click Continue.
Note: Dynamic Capacity allows a virtual volume that can be larger than the available
physical disk space
3. The Replay Profile screen is displayed. Select the desired replay profiles. Click Continue.
4. The Volume Folder screen is displayed. Create a new folder if desired (this will open a new
dialogue box). Enter volume name: Demo Volume 1. Click Continue.
Note: Volume Folders are an organizational construct to organize volumes. For example,
Exchange volumes, SQL volumes. Volume Folders are optional.
5. The Volume Properties screen in displayed. Review the volume properties and click Create
Now.
3.1.2 Map volume to a server 1. The system asks about mapping a volume to a server, creating a volume, or creating a
server. Choose Map Volume to a Server.
2. The Server Mapping screen is displayed. Select your demo server and click Continue.
3. The Server Mappings screen is displayed. Click Advanced.
4. We can see that the systems have both iSCSI and FC mapping and we want to use just
the FC for this demo so select “Only map using specified server ports”, check the “Limit
ports by transport type” and select “Fibre Channel ports”. Click Continue.
Note: The LUN number in the advanced properties view is the number the server uses to
access the volume
5. Click Create Now.
6. The volume is mapped to the server. Click Close to exit the wizard.
7. Click on the volume and select the Mapping tab to see the connections made between
the volume and the server.
8. Select the Statistics tab to see that – regardless of the size of the volume you created at this
point in time it occupies zero space on the SAN.
Note: When demoing be sure to view the volume properties before the disk is formatted.
Disk formatting will cause some data to be written to disk.
9. Run the Rescan script located on the Desktop.
3.1.3 View the volume in Windows 1. From the Windows Server console, click the Computer Management icon from the
desktop taskbar, or through the Start menu: Start>Programs>Administrative>Computer
Management 2. Select Disk Management from the left hand tree.
3. The newly recognized volumes (seen as new disks) will appear below the existing disks. 4. Right-click Disk # (new disk number name) and select Initialize Disk
5. Right-click the unallocated Space to the right of the Disk # and select New Simple Volume.
6. Walk through the New Simple Volume wizard and accept all of the defaults. On the
Format Partition screen assign the volume a name if desired. Ensure that Perform a Quick
Format is selected.
Note: It will take some time for the format to complete if a Quick Format is not checked but
it will make no difference to the space taken on the SAN. For this reason we always
recommend using Quick Format.
7. Select Next and Finish.
8. Start My Computer, right-click on the new drive and click Properties.
Note: Although the drive has no user data on it at this time it does already contain system
data that occupies disk space.
9. Copy the “1GB of data” folder from the desktop to the new drive. View the volume
properties again in Storage Center.
10. You may need to refresh the GUI in order for the Statistics to update.
Note: Notice that the actual used space on the SAN is twice the size of the Volume Space
used. Since Compellent performs all new writes to RAID10 this is normal and later modules
will detail how to demonstrate the tiering effect of the system.
3.1.4 5.3.6 Create a new Datastore 1. Open the vSphere Client and navigate to Home>Inventory>Hosts and Clusters.
2. Right-click on your ESX host and select Manage Compellent Storage>Add Datastore
3. Select Create New Compellent Volume. Click Next.
4. Enter the Volume Name as My Demo Datastore and choose a volume size. Click
Next.
Note: Although it is possible to select a Volume Folder at this point, it is not possible to
create new Volume Folders from this view. The creation of new Volume Folders must be
performed from the Storage Center or Enterprise Manager GUI.
5. Select the Recommended Storage Profile. Click Next.
Note: Although it is possible to select any Storage Profile at this point – including any
previously created Custom profiles - it is not possible to create new Storage Profiles from this
view. The creation of new Storage Profiles must be performed from the Storage Center or
Enterprise Manager GUI.
6. Select the Daily replay profile and click Next.
Note: Although it is possible to select any Replay Profile at this point – including any previously
created custom profiles - it is not possible to create new Replay Profiles from this view. The
creation of new Replay Profiles must be performed from the Storage Center or Enterprise
Manager GUI.
7. Leave the default LUN number and click Next.
Note: The system will only display LUN numbers that are currently available. LUN numbers
already in use will not be displayed.
8. Select VMFS-5. Click Next.
9. Leave the default datastore name. Click Next.
10. Click Finish.
11. In the Recent Tasks view you will see the progress of the datastore creation and the
rescan of the ESX HBAs.
12. Navigate to Home>Inventory>Datastores and select My Demo Datastore. Select the
Compellent Storage tab.
Note: Compare the information in the various Views (General, Usage Statistics etc.) with the
information in the Storage Center GUI.
3.1.5 5.3.7 Expand the Datastore 1. Right-click on your demo datastore and select Manage Compellent Storage>Expand
Datastore.
2. Enter a new size for the volume. Click Next.
3. Click Finish.
3.1.6 Delete a Datastore 1. Right-click on your demo datastore and select Manage Compellent Storage>Remove Datastore.
2. Select permanently delete and click Next.
Note: In normal operation the recommendation is not to permanently delete volumes but
rather to use the Place in Recycle Bin option. This allows for accidental deletion of volumes
to be rolled back with limited impact.
3. Review the properties of the task and click Finish.
3.1.7 Add a Raw Device Mapping to a Virtual Machine 1. Navigate to Home>Inventory>VMs and Templates. Right-click your demo Virtual Machine
and select Manage Compellent Storage>Add Raw Device.
2. Select the host and click Next.
3. Select Create a New Compellent Volume. Click Next.
4. Assign the volume a name and size. Click Next.
5. Select the Recommended Storage Profile. Click Next.
6. Select the default Daily Replay Profile and click Next.
7. Accept the default LUN number and click Next.
8. Select Physical compatibility mode. Click Next.
9. Review the Raw Device settings and click Finish.
10. Browse to Home>Inventory>VMs and Template and select your demo Virtual Machine
and select the Compellent View.
Note: Compare the difference between the Storage Usage statistics of a Datastore created
via the plug-in with a RDM. Because the RDM does not have any file system data written to it
at this time it will occupy zero space on the SAN until data is written to the drive.
3.1.8 Delete a RDM 1. Navigate to Home>Inventory>VMs and Templates. Right-click your demo Virtual Machine
and select Manage Compellent Storage>Remove Raw Device.
2. Select the RDM previously created and click Next.
3. Select Permanently delete and click Next.
Note: In normal operation the recommendation is not to permanently delete volumes but
rather to use the Place in Recycle Bin option. This allows for accidental deletion of volumes
to be rolled back with limited impact.
3.1.9 VM Storage Profiles 1. Navigate to Home>VM Storage Profiles.
2. Select Create VM Storage Profile.
3. Enter the name Gold Service. Click Next.
4. Select the following Storage Capabilities: High-Performance, Multi-RAID, and Replicated;
Multi-tier, Performance, Replicated and Multi-tier, High-Performance, Replicated. Click Next.
5. Review the VM Storage Profile and click Finish.
6. Repeat the same steps for a Storage Profile called Bronze Service.
7. Select the Multi-tier Storage Capability. Click Next.
8. Navigate to Home>Inventory>Hosts and Clusters. Right-click your host and select New
Virtual Machine.
9. Select Typical. Click Next.
10. Select the Gold Service VM Storage Profile.
Note:– because of the settings of the VM Storage Profile we created earlier – all data stores
show as incompatible.
11. Select the Bronze Service VM Storage Profile
Note: because of the settings of the VM Storage Profile we created earlier – the My Demo
Datastore now shows as compatible.
12. Having demonstrated the VM Storage functionality you can now cancel out of the Create
New Virtual Machine wizard.
3.1.10 Delete VM Storage Profiles 1. Select each of the VM Storage Profiles you created earlier and select Delete VM Storage
Profile.
2. Click Yes.
3.2 Data Protection In this demo you will be performing the following tasks:
- Create a Manual replay
- Delete Files to Simulate Recovery
- Local Recovery
- Delete View Volume
- Create Replication
- Viewing Replications
Gotha’s:
- Some of the older documentation refers to “Unlimited Snapshots”. Although the
snapshot limit is so high as to be effectively limitless for most customers be aware that
there is actually a soft limit today and the terminology used should be “practically
limitless”.
- Be aware of the worst-case scenario for snapshots: that a tiny change to data (4k)
could take 2MB on the SAN due to the page allocation. However explain to the
customer that for applications that have this kind of write profile a 512K page could be
used and that the snapshot overhead will typically reside on T3 disks.
- Snapshots are crash-consistent unless an application-aware technology is being
used to take them. Explain the benefits of Replay Manager.
- Be sure to point out that SAN-based snapshots are not intended to replace traditional
backups and should not be considered an E2E DR solution on their own. For single-
system/single-site environments a traditional backup is still recommend for true DR
coverage.
3.2.1 Create a Manual Replay 1. From the System Explorer in the Storage Center GUI, right-click the volume created in the
previous step. Select Replay > Create Replay.
2. The Replay Expiration screen is displayed. Accept the defaults and click Create Now.
3. Select the volume and click the Replays tab to see the volume’s current Replays including
the manual Replay we just created.
3.2.2 Delete Files to Simulate Recovery Need 1. Navigate to your demo volume and delete some of the files copied earlier.
3.2.3 Local Recovery 1. Return to Storage Center and right-click the manual Replay created above and select
Create Volume from Replay.
Note: Check the Description field to ensure that it is the manual Replay you configured
2. The local recovery screen is displayed. Accept the default View name and click Create
Now.
3. Follow the previous steps to map this volume to you demo server.
4. Run the Rescan script located on the Desktop.
Note: The recovered disk will appear automatically because it has been initialized and formatted. The
server will recognize the volume and will assign the next sequential drive letter automatically.
5. Examine the View Volume’s statistics in the Storage Center and note that – other than the
small amount of space occupied by the new writes to volume it occupies no space on
the SAN, despite containing 500MB of data.
6. From My Computer open the new drive/volume and recover the deleted data.
3.2.4 Delete the View Volume 1. Once your data has been recovered you can delete the View Volume from Storage
Center. Right click the Demo Volume View 1 and select Delete.
2. A warning screen will appear to advise that the volume is currently mapped. Selected Yes
to complete the operation.
Note: Best Practices that the volume should have its drive letter unmapped before it is
removed from the system but it not necessary for the purposes of this demo.
3. Run the Rescan script from the Desktop.
3.2.5 Create a Replication
1. Open the Enterprise Manager Client. You will see your Storage Center and one other
designated for replications. Select your Storage Center, right-click and select
Tasks>Replication>Replicate Volumes.
2. Select the designated replication destination Storage Center and click Next.
3. Select the volume to replicate (your demo volume). Click Next.
4. The Replication Attributes screen is displayed. Accept the default settings and click Next.
Note: Replicate Active Replay, when checked, copies all writes from the active Replay area of
the volume. Deduplication, when checked, copies only the changed portions of the
Replay history on the source volume but is resource intensive.
5. The Replication Summary screen is displayed. Click Finish.
3.2.6 Viewing Replications
1. In the Enterprise Manager Client, click Replications & Live Volume in the left-hand
navigation pane.
2. All current Replications are shown. Select the Replication job you have just created and
the current properties and status will be shown in the bottom pane. Details on the
Replays, Progress and IO Reports can be view by selecting the appropriate tab in this
view.
Note: For recently created replications this data will be minimal.
3.2.7 Reporting and Alerting (Managing) With Enterprise Manager, all local and remote Storage Center systems are discovered using a
single console. This centralized interface provides a complete view of all aspects of the
Storage Center environment, significantly reducing storage administration time.
In this demo you will be performing the following tasks:
- How do I see what’s going on in the system?
- Alerts and Thresholds Configuration
- Chargeback
Note: that clearing alerts from Enterprise Manager does not clear them on the Storage Center
system(s)
Gotchas:
- IO views are updated fairly regularly but the Storage views are not. So be sure to show
information here that is longer term.
3.2.8 How do I see what’s going on?
Alert Management Select the Monitoring tab and show the current Alerts on all of the Storage Centers
selected.
Current Storage Status
Select the Storage tab and select a Storage Center. Click the Summary tab to show the
current Storage status.
Highlight the “Top 10 Fastest Growing Volumes” view to show ease of access to vital data.
Performance Monitoring Select the IO Usage tab to show an overview of the system’s performance.
Using the check boxes show how the data can be filtered.
Using the explorer view to show the performance details for a specific item
(volume/controller/port/profile/disk pool/disk).
Open the Comparison view to show that multiple objects can be view simultaneously.
Select all disks of a type to demonstrate both the Comparison view and that the load is
equally spread across all disks.
Charting Click on the Charting tab to start the recording. Show that data can be collected in varying
intervals by selecting the “Show Last” drop-down.
Perform a copy/write operation to the system to show that data is immediately displayed in
the Charting viewer.
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3.2.9 Alerts and Thresholds Configuration
Select the Threshold Alerts tab and select Definitions>Create Threshold Definition.
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Demonstrate the different types of Alerts that can be created (IO
Usage/Storage/Replication) and the granularity of the alerts possible.
Create an example alert to show that alerts can be applied across all Storage Centers that
Enterprise Manager is managing or just a subset.
Queries Select the Queries tab and demonstrate that queries can be run instantly or saved for
future use. For an immediate query you can query by Storage/Storage Type Tier/Actual
Space and use a 1GB Threshold Value.
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3.2.10 Chargeback
Select the “Edit Chargeback Settings” to show the ease of configuration and flexibility of the
function.
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Select the Add Department option to show how simple it is to create new Departments
and define pricing structures.
Select the Chargeback tab and select the last Run point.
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Select the Departments tab to show an overview of the systems Chargeback is currently
configured for. Use the Add Volume/Add Volume Folders to show ease of configuration.
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Show the “Add Line Item” option to demonstrate that non-array related items can be
added.