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D link xStack User's Guide (137 pages)

Brand: D-link | Category: Software manuals | Size: 5.73 MB |

English

Table of contents

Managed SAN Solutions

1

Storage Management Center

1

Software User’s Guide

1

Trademarks

2

Safety Information

3

Compliance Information

3

Notice of Export Controls

3

Document Revision Level

4

Preface

5

Contact Information

6

Contents

7

Chapter 1 Introduction

11

1.3 Understanding the Basics

12

1.3.2 Menu Bar and Toolbar

13

1.3.2.1 Shortcut Menu

14

1.3.3 View Panel

15

1.3.4 Main Display

16

1.3.5 Action Panels

16

1.3.6 Detail Tabs

17

1.3.7 Status Bar

17

1.4 Getting Help

18

Chapter 2 Getting Started

19

2.1 Logging In

20

2.3 Setting Up Accounts

29

2.3.2 Adding Admin Accounts

32

2.3.3 Adding User Accounts

32

2.3.4 Modifying Accounts

34

2.3.5 Deleting User Accounts

34

2.4 Logging Out

35

Chapter 3 Managing Volumes

37

3.2 Creating Volumes

39

3.3.2 Scanning a Volume

53

3.3.3 Destroying a Volume

55

3.3.4 Growing a Volume

56

3.3.5 Reconfiguring a Volume

57

3.4 Using the Detail Tabs

60

Information about this

61

…is displayed in this tab

61

 Press the F9 key

62

4.2 Performing Drive Actions

73

4.2.1 Downing a Drive

73

4.2.2 Reserving Spare Drives

74

4.3 Using the Detail Tabs

75

5.2 Using the Detail Tabs

81

Option Description

91

If You Select This

96

Management Port…

96

Information About the Port

96

Appears Here

96

6.5.1 Grouping Ports

105

6.5.2 Ungrouping Ports

107

6.6 Working with VLANs

108

6.6.1 VLAN-Enabling a Port

109

6.6.3 VLAN-Enabling a Group

110

7.1 Adding an xStack Storage

111

Chapter 8 Best Practices

113

8.3 Working with Firewalls

114

Appendix A Menu Summary

117

A.3 Tools Menu

118

A.4 Volumes Menu

118

A.5 Storage Menu

118

A.10 Help Menu

119

C.1 Recording Volumes

125

C.3 Recording Groups

128

C.6 Admin Login Password

132

C.7 Configuration Files

133

C.9 Data Port Settings

135

C.10 Email Settings

136

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