About the Management Server console Home page
The following figure displays the Home page of the Management Server console. Click the icons to perform a specific category of task or view a specific category of information that is related to your data center. For example, click Availability to perform the tasks on clusters and service groups.
Figure: Management Server console
The following options are available:
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Dashboard: Provides an overall status of the data center (faults, risks, platform distribution, object status), and the information on inventory. You can also create a customized Dashboard.
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Settings: Use this to set up the Management Server environment. For example, adding managed hosts, configuring virtualization servers, uploading solutions, configuring SAN switches, configuring storage enclosures, and so on.
An administrator needs to first perform the setup-related operations, and then use the perspectives for the specific tasks.
Settings is also referred to as the Management Server perspective.
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Perspectives: Depending on the role of the user and the nature of the task to be performed, the tasks are grouped under the following perspectives:
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Server: Lets you view the information on hosts and applications (databases, Microsoft Exchange, Virtual Business Service), view associated faults and risks, and generate reports on hosts, volumes, disks, and so on. You can create disk group, volume, file system, configure Application HA, and perform dynamic multi-pathing related operations on the hosts. The Server perspective provides a similar user interface and functionality as that of the VEA Java GUI.
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Availability: Lets you perform the operations that are related to clusters, Virtual Business Services, and service groups. For example, you can create service group, Virtual Business Service, and recovery plan. You can also generate reports on High Availability-related objects. The Availability perspective provides a similar user experience and functionality as that of the VCS Java GUI and VCS Management console (VCSMC).
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Virtualization: Lets you view the information on the configured virtualization servers, their associated virtual machines, associated faults and risks, and generate the reports on the virtualization objects and the associated storage. You can also perform dynamic multi-pathing related operations on the VMware ESX server.
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Licensing: Provides the information on Storage Foundation High Availability licenses, the license deployment details, and reports.
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Global Reports: Lets you view the collection of InfoScale deployment data from multiple management servers. You can access the Global Reports perspective from the top right corner of the menu bar. The Global Reports perspective lets you manage subscriptions for the available reports.
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