3Managing Your ApplianceThe Core Console includes an Appliance tab, which you can use to provision space, monitor the healthof the appliance, and access management tools.Monitoring the status of the ApplianceYou can monitor the status of the Appliance subsystems by using the Appliance tab Overall Status page.The Overall Status page displays a status light next to each subsystem, along with a status descriptionindicating the health of the subsystem.The Overall Status page also provides links to tools that drill down into the details of each subsystem,which can be helpful for troubleshooting warnings or errors. The System Administrator link, available forthe Appliance Hardware and Storage Hardware subsystems, prompts you to log on to the SystemAdministrator application used for managing hardware. For more information about the SystemAdministrator application, see the OpenManage Server Administrator User’s Guide on dell.com/support/home. The Provisioning Status link, available for the Storage Provisioning subsystem, opens the Tasksscreen which displays the provisioning status of that subsystem. If storage is available for provisioning, alink to Provision under Actions displays next to the provision task.Provisioning storageThe appliance configures available DL4000 internal storage and any attached external storage enclosuresfor:• AppAssure RepositoriesNOTE: If fibre channel HBA is configured then the process of creating the repositories is manual.AppAssure will not create a repository automatically in the root directory. For more information,see the Dell DL4000 Appliance Deployment Guide.• Virtual Standby of Protected MachinesNOTE: MD1400s with 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB or 6 TB (for high capacity) drives connected to the H830controller are supported. Up to four MD 1400s are supported.NOTE: The DL4000 high-capacity configuration supports either H810 PERC SAS adapter or twoFibre Channel HBAs. For more information on configuring fibre channel HBAs, see the DL4xxx —Fibre Channel Implementation whitepaper located at dell.com/support/home.Before you begin provisioning storage on the disk, determine how much storage you want for standbyvirtual machines. You can allocate any percentage of the available capacity to host standby virtualmachines. For example, if you are using Storage Resource Management (SRM), you can allocate up to100 percent capacity on any device being provisioned to host virtual machines. Using AppAssure's LiveRecovery feature, you can use these virtual machines to quickly replace any failed server that theappliance protects.77
