Hello and welcome to EMC'S video on Unisphere for the VXE 1600 which is a graphical interface that enables users to manage V NX storage and use VNS enhanced feature set in a simple and intuitive way. In this video, we will go over a few topics including a feature overview of unisphere, the benefits of using unisphere followed by a demonstration of navigating the Unisphere interface through its various menus today. More than ever storage administrators need an intuitive and easy way to manage the expanding feature sets of modern storage systems. This holds true for the VN IC 1600 which has been built to include support for advanced data services and multicore optimization.
Incorporating management of these features in a user friendly interface is helpful for users and Unisphere is designed to do just that unisphere enables storage administrators to easily configure storage resources to meet the specific needs of their applications host operating systems. And all the users, we'll now move on to the benefits of using Unisphere. First off Unisphere configuration wizards greatly simplify storage provisioning by automatically implementing best practices. This optimizes system performance and minimizes costs. Unisphere also simplifies troubleshooting by easily identifying failed components and providing direct access to E MC support options. This will be shown in the demo.
Lastly, Unisphere provides a support ecosystem that gives access to learning materials and support resources resulting in a more efficient and a more productive environment. We now move on to a demonstration of using Unisphere by navigating through some of its menus. Here is the dashboard page that users will see after going through the initial configuration wizard. The dashboard page can provide a quick overview of the status of the system like capacity and alerts and can provide links to common tasks which connect to different pages within the gui. This is the default page. The dashboard page is also customizable so users can add modify and delete dashboards, but there must be at least one dashboard tab present at all times. Users can rename dashboards by double clicking the current name as you can see here.
Next, we'll navigate to the system menu note that you can either hover over the menu icons or click them to navigate to their sub menus. As seen here, the system menu includes several sub menus related to system information such as alerts, jobs, list logs and system performance. We'll go into the system health page in the system health page unisphere shows an interactive graphic of the V NXC hardware which allows administrators to see potential hardware issues if they happen to be off site from the physical system in the back of the disk processor enclosure or DB. We can see there are ports that are filled in with green squares. This signifies that the ports are connected and working in the left pane. The system components can be expanded to see the health of individual components like fan modules and disks. Now let's go to the storage menu here. Unisphere provides various storage resources suited for the needs of different applications, host operating systems and user requirements.
The storage resources of a VNXE 1600 includes LS and VM ware VMFS. Data stores, other storage resource configurations listed on the storage menu are storage pools from which storage resources are provisioned from fast cache and spare disks. In the host menu, users can create and manage host configurations which provide the V NXC with network profiles of the hosts. The menu includes the ability to add view and manage hosts to the V NXC system as well as view initiators and initiator paths and import vmware, VCENTER and ESX hosts. We'll now navigate to the settings menu here. Users can configure different system settings such as tools for servicing and troubleshooting the system. Managing user access to Unisphere managing is Cuzi settings and setting up network and communication settings for the storage system.
We'll go into the management settings to see more details. In this page. Users can see general system information as well as modifying DNS and P settings. Let's take a look at the service system page note that you can navigate up the menu tree by clicking the corresponding links above the page in the service system page. Once the proper service password is typed in the user can service and troubleshoot the system in different ways. Like collecting service information, restarting the management server, changing the service password and enable SSH among other settings.
Back in the settings menu, there's a link to more configurations which includes more settings related to the VX like ESRs and update software unisphere for the VNXE 1600 was designed with a useful customer support ecosystem in mind. The integrated support menu provides instant access to online support information and communities. The support menu includes links such as how to videos, online documentation, white paper, access and access to technical advisories.
The need more help link provides more support resources like live chat with ICAL support representatives, ordering and returning parts for the store system and access to system support links from the product support page for additional resources on use Fear for the VNXC Please see the paper titled introduction to the VNXE 1600 on E MC. Online support.