About the Management Server console Home page
The Figure: Management Server console 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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Global 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. For example, add the enclosures using the Storage Insight Add-on, and then use the Storage perspective to monitor the enclosures.
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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Storage: Lets you view the information on storage enclosures, associated faults and risks, SAN fabric, switches, and generate reports on storage utilization. You can also perform dynamic multipathing related operations on the enclosures.
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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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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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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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SFHA Licensing: Provides the information on Storage Foundation High Availability licenses, the license deployment details, and reports.
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