CML Mod08 Advanced Integration RELEASE v3

7/28/2019 CML Mod08 Advanced Integration RELEASE v3

1/35

Dell CompellentModule 8: Advanced Integration


2/35

Compellent Advanced Integration Objectives Discuss Unified Storage and the Compellent NAS portfolio

Identify Storage Center Command Utility commands for

creating, modifying and deleting Storage Center volumes,views, maps and servers

Discuss data migration methodologies for SAN to SAN, filebased, host based and application based migrations

Discuss VMware and Compellent points of integration

Confidential2


3/35

NAS Offerings

Windows-based NAS

Windows based NAS, Microsoft look and

feel

Lower price point Fixed software pricing

Ideal for Windows-based customers, pure

CIFS environments

zNAS

ZFS based NAS, Compellent look

and feel

Mid-size price point Scalable software pricing

Ideal for pure Unix environments

and mixed environments

Confidential3


4/35

Compellent zNAS

Confidential4


5/35

zNAS Architecture

Confidential5

NAS Management

View

NAS Management

Console


6/35

Additional Applications Replay Manager

PowerShell Script Pack

Microsoft SCOM Management Pack

Microsoft VDS support

Microsoft MPIO DSM

CompCU

AIX Multipath Manager

Citrix Storage Link adapter with replication

VMware SRA for SRM

Plug-in for VMware Virtual Center

SNMP, SMI-S, Syslog

Confidential6


7/35

AdditionalApplications:Scripting

Command Utility

Confidential7


8/35

Command Utility 5

The Storage Center Command Utility provides a set of commands for

creating, modifying, and deleting Storage Center volumes, views,

maps, and servers.

Requirements: Storage Center 5 or later

Storage Center host name, user name, and password

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.5 or later

Storage Center CU executable (compcu.jar)

Confidential8


9/35

Command Utility 5Running compcu.jar The Storage Center CU executable is named compcu.jar. Format java jar compcu.jar {logon} [options ... options]

Note: For a complete list of all CU functions please refer to the Compellent Storage CenterCommand Utility 5 User Guide.

Confidential9


10/35

Command Utility 5Command Help: To get help for all commands, execute compcu.jar with the h option:

java -jar compcu.jar h

Confidential10


11/35

Command Utility 5Executing a Single Command Example:java -jar compcu.jar -host server1 -user Admin -password mmm

-c mapping show

Confidential11


12/35

Command Utility 5Executing a Script Example: to execute a script named my script:

java -jar compcu.jar -host server1 -user Admin -password mmm -s myscript

Confidential12


13/35

Command Utility 5Volume Create Command: Creates a volume along with its attributes including size and server

mapping

Java jar compcu.jar c volume create name -size -server

Confidential13


14/35

Command Utility 5Replay Create Commands Creates a Replay of a volume.

In addition, optionally creates and maps a view volume from the Replay.

Confidential14


15/35

AdditionalApplications:Scripting

PowerShell

Confidential15


16/35

Command Set for Windows PowerShell The Storage Center Command Set leverages Windows PowerShell to improve

administration control, efficiency and productivity of a Compellent SAN bystreamlining tasks of system management, volume administration, DataInstant Replay management and advanced storage features using more than60 new cmdlets.

Confidential16


17/35

Storage Center Command SetManage a Compellent SAN using Windows PowerShell technology

Confidential17


18/35

Command ListAcknowledge-SCAlertAdd-SCServerPortAdd-VolumeAccessPathExpand-SCVolumeGet-DiskDeviceGet-NextFreeDriveLetterGet-SCAlertGet-SCCmm

Get-SCCommandSetVersionGet-SCConnectionGet-SCDiskGet-SCDiskFolderGet-SCOSTypeGet-SCPortGet-SCReplayGet-SCReplayProfileGet-SCServer

Get-SCServerFolderGet-SCStorageProfileGet-SCStorageTypeGet-SCUserGet-SCVolumeGet-SCVolumeFolderGet-SCVolumeMapGet-VolumeMove-SCServer

Move-SCServerFolderMove-SCVolumeMove-SCVolumeFolderNew-SCCmmCopyNew-SCCmmMigrateNew-SCCmmMirrorNew-SCReplayNew-SCServer

New-SCServerFolderNew-SCUserNew-SCVolumeNew-SCVolumeFolderNew-SCVolumeMapNew-VolumeRemove-SCCmmRemove-SCConnection

Remove-SCReplayRemove-SCServerRemove-SCServerFolderRemove-SCServerPortRemove-SCUserRemove-SCVolumeRemove-SCVolumeFolderRemove-SCVolumeMapRemove-SCVolumeReplayProfile

Remove-VolumeAccessPathRename-SCServerRename-SCServerFolderRename-SCVolumeRename-SCVolumeFolderRescan-DiskDeviceSet-DiskDeviceSet-SCCmmSet-SCDisk

Set-SCServerSet-SCServerFolderSet-SCUserSet-SCVolumeSet-SCVolumeFolderSet-SCVolumeReplayProfileSet-SCVolumeStorageProfileSet-Volume

Commands to controland automate StorageCenter administration

tasks

Confidential18


19/35

Deployment Scenarios

Task Using PowerShell Manual Setup

Create 50 new Storage Center user

accounts for everyone in a

Microsoft Active Directory user

group

Seconds Hours

Create and map hundreds of

Storage Center volumes in an

eight-node Microsoft cluster

Minutes Days

Confidential19


20/35

Using Storage Center Command Set Windows PowerShell:

Command Sets

Objects

Executing Single Commands

Executing Scripts

Formatting and Exporting Command Output

Standard Common Parameters

Command Reference Storage Center Command set Example Scripts

Detailed information

and examples on the

above listed PowerShell

items can be found inthe Storage Center

Command set for 5.x

for Windows PowerShell

User Guide.

Confidential20


21/35

Command: Get-Help

Get-Help Get-SCVolume

PowerShell: Getting Help

Confidential21


22/35

Compellent Script ComparisonAttribute Command Utility PowerShell

Platform Any (Java) Windows only

Manage Servers

Manage Replays

Manage Volumes

Manage Users

Manage Controllers

Manage Alerts

Copy-mirror-migrate Operations

Windows Volume Management

Confidential22


23/35

Windows PowerShell Resource

Confidential23


24/35

PowerShell Best Practices: Rescanning

Confidential24


25/35

PowerShell: Assigning Drive Letters

Confidential25


26/35

PowerShell: Clearing Flags

Confidential26


27/35

Data Migration:Thin Import

Confidential27


28/35

Data Migration Methodologies

Compellent SAN to SAN migration

Online

Offline

File based

Network Server to Server copy

Robocopy, FTP, etc.

Back-up/Restore

Host based

OS level move between LUNS on the same server

Move DB (SQL)

Relocation of Application

Application based

VMware Storage VMotion

Confidential28


29/35

Thin Import

Confidential29


30/35

Backup Integration

Confidential30


31/35

VMwareIntegration

Confidential31


32/35


33/35

Platform Integration

Enterprise Manager + vCenter

Create volumes, automaticallymap, rescan and format with VMFS

to create datastores or assign asRDMs to VMs

Collect VM host and guest storagestatistics from vCenter

Communicate with SRM to

automate DR

Site Recovery Manager (SRM)Plug-in

Configure and test automated

failover of VMs and storage for DR Power on VMs mapped to storage

in user-defined order on failover

Download available from VMware

Confidential33


34/35

Platform Integration

vSphere 4.1 Client Plug-in Manage storage through vSphere

client

Create, map and manage volumesfor VMFS datastores and RDMs

Schedule snapshots and selecttiering profiles

Configure volume replications

vStorage APIs for Array Integration Automate manual handoffs and processes between servers and

storage, offload cycles from host to array

Full Copy create complete copy of data without traditional hostread/write back sequences

Block Zeroing - zero out large number of disk blocks as single instruction Hardware Assisted Locking take active role in locking/unlocking VMFS

cluster file system

Confidential34


35/35

Dell Compellent

Thank you

Date post:	03-Apr-2018
Category:	Documents
Upload:	ryan-belicov
View:	221 times
Download:	0 times

CML Mod08 Advanced Integration RELEASE v3

Documents