Hitachi Command Suite 8 User Guide

							installation options, see the Hitachi Command Suite Installation and
Configuration Guide.
Related concepts
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Features  on page 21
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What's new  on page 22
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System configuration  on page 23
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Navigating the interface  on page 27
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Navigating help  on page 29
Related tasks
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Logging in to Hitachi Command Suite  on page 39
Features Hitachi Command Suite provides a wide variety of security, scalability, datamigration, replication, performance, and administrative features for
managing your storage system needs in this release.
Hitachi Command Suite includes the following functionality: • Server architecture supports resource scalability (millions of storage objects) and geographic scalability.
• Provides secure remote management over Internet and wide area networks (WANs) using a sophisticated web client.
• Provides multiple levels of security and access for storage administrators, integration with external authentication servers, and use of resource
groups to control access to specific resources.
• Security tools to prevent unauthorized access, such as account locking, and restricted login retry attempts.
• Provides for automation scripts using component CLIs. • Supports agentless discovery and mapping of servers (hosts) and storage.
• Supports hosts such as Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, and Linux.
• Supports virtualization servers such as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX.
• Supports FC, iSCSI, and FCoE connected hosts.
• Supports a wide variety of block, file, unified (hybrid) and SMI-S compliant storage systems.
• Supports virtualization of volumes from external storage. • Supports volume migration between supported source and target storage systems.
• Provides simplified volume provisioning in complex environments. • Provides logical, physical, and host view storage management.
• Provides efficient, cost effective use of storage capacity as needed using DP pools.
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							• Supports optimized application performance with an installed TieredStorage Manager license when DP pools are configured to support
performance tiers. Using the Mobility tab, you can optimize data placement tasks when migrating online data between tiers.
• Supports analyzing storage system performance with an installed Hitachi Tuning Manager license, by using the Analytics tab.
• Integrates with other products and software tools that provide extended capabilities. For example, integration with Hitachi Command Director
supports SLA/SLO compliance monitoring and reporting and links with
native storage management tools where necessary.
• Provides volume replication services for data protection and supports analyzing Universal Replicator C/T delta performance on the Replication
tab (with an installed Hitachi Replication Manager and Hitachi Tuning Manager license).
• Provides keyword and criteria based searching of managed resources, and managed resource reporting with data export to CSV files.
Related concepts
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About Hitachi Command Suite  on page 20
What's new Hitachi Command Suite v8.1.0 includes the following new or enhanced
functionality:
Device Manager now supports:
• For the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform, and Hitachi Unified Storage VM, the Analytics tab supports:
○ Ability to plan and view load balancing for MP blades and MP units.
○ Reports in Health Check for busy pools by MB/s and busy parity groups
by utilization.
○ Metrics for port and pool in the Identify Performance Problems wizard.
• Configuration of volumes migrated by nondisruptive migration as global- active device pair volumes in Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000.
• Protecting the virtual volume for a Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning pool in a Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 when the pool capacity is depleted
or the pool volume is blocked.
• For the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, you can now enable high temperature mode.
• Users can now belong to both built-in user groups and other user groups.
• You can now create resource groups for DP pools. • Externally authorized groups can now be assigned to the default resource group, resource pool, and user-defined resource group types.
• Device Manager agent for Linux allows changing the installation directory during a new installation.
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							Tiered Storage Manager now supports:
• For the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, Tiered Storage Manager supports the following functionality for shrinking pools without changing
the number of tiers and without substituting tiers.
○ When you shrink a pool during data relocation, the data relocation
continues after pool shrinkage is complete.
○ When relocating data after pool shrinkage is complete, you can relocate
the data based on the monitoring before the pool shrinkage.
This list highlights new software (GUI) features. It is not an exhaustive list of
enhancements.
For complete information about new features and enhancements, see  Hitachi
Device Manager Release Notes  and Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager Release
Notes .
For a complete list of system requirements for the management server, Host
Data Collector, Device Manager agent, CLI, and storage systems, see  Hitachi
Command Suite System Requirements .
Related concepts
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About Hitachi Command Suite  on page 20
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About analyzing storage system performance  on page 403
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About user groups  on page 102
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About resource groups  on page 97
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About high temperature mode  on page 317
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Analyzing and load balancing MP Blades or MP Units  on page 407
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Creating a DP pool  on page 162
Related references
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Create Pool dialog box  on page 164
System configuration As part of a basic storage network configuration, Hitachi Command Suite is
comprised of HCS server-based components, agents, and clients that enable you to manage storage resources.
The following figure illustrates Hitachi Command Suite management server
components, and the basic configuration of the storage network.
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							Management servers
• The management server is where HCS is installed. • The management server communicates with management clients, storage systems, pair management servers, file-servers, and hosts over LAN
connections.
• Additional software can be installed on the management server to provide extended management capabilities.
• The management server can be configured in an active-standby cluster configuration consisting of two physical servers.
Management server components
The HCS base installation consists of the following components, which are
always installed or removed together on the management server:
• Hitachi Command Suite Common Component Provides user account management, security monitoring, and otherfunctions common to all HCS products.
• Device Manager server
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							HCS uses this component to manage storage system volumes.
• Tiered Storage Manager server Tiered Storage Manager uses this component to manage storage systemvolume migration.
• Replication Manager server Replication Manager uses this component to manage storage systemvolume replication.
• Host Data Collector HCS uses this component to collect information about the volumes used bythe hosts.Note:  The Host Data Collector component can be installed on other
servers and accessed remotely by HCS.
Management clients
• Manage storage resources from the management server by using the HCS web client (GUI), or by using the CLI client software to issue commands.
• CLI client components (Device Manager and Tiered Storage Manager) require a separate installation from the web client.
• From the web client, with a Device Manager license, launch Replication Manager to use a subset of Replication Manager functionality.
Hosts
• File servers and hosts (application servers) access volumes in storage systems that are managed by HCS.
• Hosts access storage over SAN (Fibre Channel) or LAN (iSCSI and FCoE) connections.
• Hosts can be virtualization servers (VMware ESX/ESXi) and their virtual machines, and mainframe hosts.
• Hosts can be file servers (Hitachi NAS Platform family, Hitachi NAS Platform F, and Hitachi Data Ingestor).
File servers and hosts (application servers) access volumes in storage
systems that are managed by HCS over a Storage Area Network (SAN) or an IP-SAN.
Pair management servers
• Collects management information about copy pair configurations and related status information, and provides for copy pair operations.
• Command Control Interface (CCI) and Device Manager agent are installed for copy pair monitoring and management.
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							For information about performing the base installation, see the Hitachi
Command Suite Installation and Configuration Guide .
For information about customizing and extending the base installation, see
the  Hitachi Command Suite Administrator Guide .
Related concepts
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About Hitachi Command Suite  on page 20
Process flow The following graphic illustrates the flow of system operations when usingHitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager.
• Server configuration steps are related to installing and configuring the server itself.
For more information on server installation and configuration, see:
○ Hitachi Command Suite Installation and Configuration Guide
○ Hitachi Command Suite Administrator Guide
• Client operation steps are illustrated and explained further with workflow graphics and comments in this user guide.
• Maintenance refers to troubleshooting the server if issues arise when running Hitachi Command Suite.
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							Navigating the interfaceHitachi Command Suite provides a sophisticated interface with elements suchas menus, tabs, navigation options, application details, status information
and search options supporting ease of use and flexibility for storage and server resources.
Interface elements • Global task bar - always visible, forward/back navigation buttons, clickable navigation history (down arrow), menu access to licensing and help (Help),launching licenced options (Tools), and Log Out for exiting Hitachi Command Suite.
• Global tabs - always visible, provides access to applications.
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							• Search - always visible, provides keyword and criteria-based search.• Navigation pane - differs by tab, provides access to resources and commonly-used tasks.
• Application pane - differs by tab, provides resource summary information, resource object list, and related drill down details.
• Global monitoring bar - always visible, provides links for submitted tasks by status.
Navigation pane
• Accordion menus provide easy access to resource trees.
• Resize panes by dragging divider bars. Collapse panes by clicking divider bar arrows.
• Access frequently needed tasks under General Tasks. Click More... to see hidden general tasks.
Application pane • Minimize and expand panes by using the double arrow symbol in the title.
• Click Column Settings to display or hide columns, change column order, or view column descriptions.
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							• Right-click a table heading and select menu options, such as Hide Columnor Show all Columns.
• Arrange columns by using drag-and-drop.
• Sort lists by clicking the column title.
• Navigate large lists by using Page controls. • Click Filter to reduce large lists, or to find specific items by defining specific search conditions. Filter allows multiple conditions to be defined.
• In a list, click a link to display more detail about the item. As you drill- down, the breadcrumb list ( item > detail ) above the summary pane is
updated and serves as a useful navigation tool.
• In a list, rows are highlighted as you roll your mouse over them, indicating your row position. To select a specific item, select the desired check box or
click the row and the darker highlight indicates the row is selected.
• To select multiple rows, select the desired check boxes or rows. You can also use Shift+click to select a range of items. To select all rows, select the
check box for the title row, or uncheck the check box to de-select all rows.
• Selecting rows implies you intend to perform an action on the selected item or items. Actions are initiated with buttons or from the Actions menu.
• To copy cell or row data, select one or more rows with data, right-click and select Copy This Cell or Copy Selected Rows. This is useful for emailing
small amounts of data about a storage resource. If you select empty rows, the copy options do not appear when you right-click. For reporting on large
numbers of objects and for more complete data, use CSV export.
Related concepts •
About Hitachi Command Suite  on page 20
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Navigating help  on page 29
Navigating help The Help system provides brief explanations of the features of this productand helps you understand its capabilities. Navigating is the means by whichyou access the information in the Help system.
When you access Help > Online Help from the menu bar, the navigation panedisplays.
If you select the help icon [?] from the application pane or a dialog box, click
Show All Contents to display the navigation pane and access the Contents,
Index, Search, and Glossary.
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							Navigating
• To navigate between topics, use the navigation pane, or right-click the topic and select Back or Forward.
• Use the breadcrumb trail at the top of each topic to see your location, or to return to a higher level topic.
• To find information for a specific topic, click the Related topics links.
Using navigation buttons• Contents Open book icons in the navigation pane to reveal topic entries and
subsections. As you move through Help, the current topic is highlighted.
• Index An alphabetical list of topics. Click an Index entry to display one or more
topics that you can choose to view.
• Search Search for word or phrase occurrences. Click search results to display thecorresponding topics.
• Glossary Provides brief explanations of product-related terms.
Printing topics
• To print topics, right-click the topic and select Print or click the printer icon on the button bar.
Related concepts •
About Hitachi Command Suite  on page 20
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Navigating the interface  on page 27
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