Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide

Storage panel

If storage is not yet configured and provisioned for the system, this panel provides configuration options to configure your storage. Configuration options include the storage type, setting up SupportAssist, and configuring storage.

To initially configure storage, select the storage type using either the Virtual or Linear radio button. A tooltip describing these two settings is provided on the Storage panel.

If you selected Virtual as the storage type, you can select Auto Storage Setup to easily configure storage using the wizard. If you selected Linear as the storage type, the Auto Storage Setup option is not available.

The Auto Storage Setup button (Maintenance > Storage) opens the Auto Storage Setup dialog box. This dialog box provides information for the selected storage type, including the configuration suggestions.

For virtual pools, the dialog is divided into discrete sections:

• Disk health with Rescan link
• Disk groups table (with applicable configuration settings)
• Spares table
• Unused disks (if any)

The Apply Configuration and Cancel actions provide control over the automated configuration process.

For linear storage, a single storage pool contains all disk groups. The storage system provides a Pools container that includes disk groups and a Spares container.

The Storage panel (Maintenance > Storage) shows the system storage configuration, including pools, disk groups, and spares (non-ADAPT disk groups only) and enables you to change the configuration. See also Pools and Spares.

A storage system can have one virtual pool per controller module. This panel shows a Pool table for each pool, and a Spares table. In this panel you can:

• View information about a pool.
• Change pool settings.
• View information about disk groups in a pool.
• Add a disk group to a pool.
• Rename a disk group.
• Delete a disk group from a pool.
• Expand an ADAPT disk group.
• Verify a disk group.
• Scrub a disk group.
• View information about disks in a group.
• View information about volumes that are attached to hosts.