Managed Storage User Interface
Dashboard
The dashboard gives you an overview of all your storage systems and nodes and provides important statistics. Dynamic data such as the capacity available /used or the storage performance over time can be adjusted in the time scale from one year to one hour. You will also receive basic health information on the available systems and from there it is easy to drill down into any of your systems (clusters, SAN/NAS).
Centralized User and Access Rights Management
The centralized user and access management allows you to create and manage users and group and assign access rights for both imported / synchronized (AD, LDAP) and manually created users and groups.
Users and groups contain both file share authorized users / groups and authorized storage administrators. For authorized storage administrators, you may define the scope of their responsibility down to individual storage pools
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Manage RAID groups
You may create, administrate, resize and validate RAID-groups selecting the type of storage (disks) used, the RAID-level (0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60), the number of disks and the number of hot spares used (exclusive ones or shared).
You may also configure scrubbing schedules and define extra data integrity checks to find silent data corruption errors.
Create a RAID Group
Storage Pool Management
You may define different types of storage pools, such as cache pools, thin pools, striped and linear pools, their initial and maximal size and other options (such as encryption or de-duplication). Storage pools are based on coherent sets of RAID groups as underlying storage. Storage pools may be replicated synchronously or asynchronously and on-site or across sites
Create Storage Pool
Volume Management
Volumes may be created as thin or thick volumes and may consist of storages across multiple tiers, including cache, main and capacity tiers. The movement of blocks between tiers is fully transparent.
Volumes are based on several pools (one per tier) and can be resized, re-balanced or migrated. Volumes may be encrypted, de-duplicated and so on. Replication of volumes follows the configuration of pool replication. Volumes may be snapshotted on demand or following a recurrent schedule and these snapshots may be replicated for backup or other purposes.
The presentation of volumes to SAN storage fabrics and hosts is subject to simple configuration.
Create Volume
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NAS Management
On top of the general storage management functionality, specific NAS functionality can be used, either through combined controllers or separate NAS controllers.