Supported options for IBM® DS5000. IBM DS4000, and IBM DS3000 systems

IBM® DS5000, IBM® DS4000™, and IBM® DS3000 series storage systems provide functions that can be used with the system.

The storage manager for IBM® DS5000, IBM® DS4000™ and IBM® DS3000 systems has several options and actions that you can use.

Controller run diagnostics

Diagnostics are automatically recovered by the system . After the controller run diagnostics option is used, check your managed disks (MDisks) to ensure that they have not been set to degraded mode.

Controller disable data transfer

The controller disable data transfer option is not supported when a system is attached to IBM® DS5000, IBM® DS4000™, or IBM® DS3000 systems.

Setting an array Offline

Do not set an array offline because you can lose access to the storage pool.

Array increase capacity

The array increase capacity option is supported, but the new capacity is not usable until the MDisk is removed from the storage pool and re-added to the storage pool. You might have to migrate data to increase the capacity.

Redistribute logical drives or change ownership of the preferred path

You can redistribute logical drives or change ownership of the preferred path; however, these options might not take effect until a discovery is started on the system. You can use the detectmdisk command-line interface (CLI) command to restart a system discovery process. The discovery process rescans the Fibre Channel network to discover any new MDisks that might have been added to the system and to rebalance MDisk access across the available storage system ports.

Controller reset

You must only use the controller reset option if you are directed to do so by Lenovo Service and the alternate controller is functional and available to the SAN. The system reset is automatically recovered by the system.

Check your MDisks to ensure that they have not been set to the degraded state during the controller reset process. You can issue the includemdisk CLI command to repair degraded MDisks.