What are the Enterprise and Array Management Windows?

The Enterprise Management Window (EMW) and Array Management Window (AMW) are the two key views in the storage management software that facilitate the configuration and operation of your .

Enterprise Management Window

The Enterprise Management Window is the first window to appear when you start the storage management software. The key management tasks performed in the EMW include: 

• Discovering hosts and storage arrays automatically on your local sub-network
• Providing the ability to manually add and remove hosts and storage arrays
• Monitoring the health of storage arrays and reporting a high-level  using the appropriate icons
• Providing the ability to configure alert notifications (email or ) and report critical events to the configured
• Loading the appropriate Array Management Window for a selected storage array to allow detailed configuration and management operations
• Executing a script to perform batch management tasks on a particular storage array

A local  stores all the information about storage arrays that you have added and any email or SNMP destinations that you have configured.

Array Management Window

The Array Management Window is launched from the Enterprise Management Window and is used to configure and maintain the logical and physical components of a storage array and to view and define virtual disk-to-LUN mappings. The key management tasks performed in the AMW include:

• Providing storage array options, such as renaming a storage array, changing a password, or enabling a background media scan
• Providing the ability to configure virtual disks from your storage array capacity, define  and host groups, and grant host or host group access to sets of virtual disks called storage partitions
• Monitoring the health of storage array components and reporting detailed status using appropriate icons
• Providing you with the appropriate recovery procedures for a failed logical or physical component
• Presenting a view of the storage array Event Log
• Presenting profile information about physical components, such as RAID controller modules and physical disks
• Providing RAID controller module management options, such as changing ownership of virtual disks or placing a RAID controller module online or offline
• Providing physical disk management options, such as assignment of hot spares and physical disk initialization
• Monitoring storage array performance

The Array Management Window is specific to an individual storage array; therefore, you can manage only a single storage array within an Array Management Window. However, you can start other Array Management Windows from the Enterprise Management Window to simultaneously manage multiple storage arrays.

There are two Array Management Window views. The Logical/Physical View presents a picture of the organization of storage array capacity into logical entities called disk groups and virtual disks. The Logical/Physical view also presents a picture of the physical storage arrays in the storage array, such as RAID controller modules, physical disks, and other components. The Mappings View enables you to define topological elements (host groups, hosts, and host bus adapter [HBA] host ports), and define and change virtual disk-to-LUN mappings to grant virtual disk access to host groups and hosts and create storage partitions.

Important: Depending on your version of storage management software, the views, menu options, and functionality might be different than the information presented in the online help. For information on available functionality, refer to the documentation supplied with your version of storage management software.

Related Topics

Using the Enterprise Management Window

Introducing the Enterprise Management Window