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Chapter 5. Graphical user interface
This chapter describes an overview of the IBM Spectrum Virtualize graphical user interface 
(GUI). The management GUI is a tool that is enabled and provided by IBM Spectrum 
Virtualize that helps you to monitor, manage, and configure your system.
This chapter explains the basic view and the configuration procedures that are required to get 
your IBM Storwize V7000 environment running as quickly as possible by using the GUI.
This chapter does not describe advanced troubleshooting or problem determination and 
some of the complex operations (compression, encryption). For more information, see 
Chapter 13, “RAS, monitoring, and troubleshooting” on page 673.
Throughout this chapter, all GUI menu items are introduced in a systematic, logical order as 
they appear in the GUI. However, topics that are described more in detail in other chapters of 
the book are only referred to here. For example, storage pools (Chapter 6, “Storage pools” on 
page 191), volumes (Chapter 7, “Volumes” on page 241), hosts (Chapter 8, “Hosts” on 
page 317), and Copy Services (Chapter 11, “Advanced Copy Services” on page 435) are 
described in separate chapters.
This chapter includes the following topics:
/SM5900005.1, “Normal operations by using the GUI” on page 132
/SM5900005.2, “GUI introduction” on page 136
/SM5900005.3, “System View window” on page 143
/SM5900005.4, “Monitoring menu” on page 147
/SM5900005.5, “Pools” on page 155
/SM5900005.6, “Volumes” on page 155
/SM5900005.7, “Hosts” on page 156
/SM5900005.8, “Copy Services” on page 157
/SM5900005.9, “Access” on page 157
/SM5900005.10, “Settings” on page 162
/SM5900005.11, “Additional frequent tasks in GUI” on page 183
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Demonstration: The IBM Client Demonstration Center includes a demonstration of the 
V8.2 GUI. For more information, see the IBM Client Demonstration Center (log in 
required).