Administrator Guide

support.dell.com Using Dell OpenManage Array Manager Software 3-3
• My Network Places, History, Favorites provide remote connection functionality
not supported by the PowerVault 735N system and should be ignored.
Right Pane
The right pane identifies the various objects and their status, and displays any error
conditions that may exist. The four tabbed views in the system’s right pane console
view include the following:
• The General tab displays parameters based on the objects you select in the con-
sole's tree view. The parameters are as follows:
• Name isthenameoftheobject.
• Status can vary, depending on the object. Common Status conditions are
Online, Healthy,andRe-Synching.
• Ty p e Identifies the object, such as Array Disk.
• Disk Group shows an entry for disks in a basic or dynamic group.
• Capacity isthemaximumsizeofthedisk.
• Unallocated Space is the amount of free hard-disk space still available.
• Graphical Layout is a graphical representation of how much of the disk is
being used.
• Progress shows the current progress (percentage of completion) for tasks.
• Device is the type of disk: small computer system interface (SCSI), inte-
grated drive electronics (IDE), and so on.
• Port identifies the controller card. A SCSI port has zero or more target IDs,
and a target ID has one or more logical unit numbers (LUNs).
• LUN is the logical unit number.
• Ta r g e t is the SCSI ID, which uniquely identifies the disk on the controller
card.
• Vendor identifies the vendor on hardware objects.
• The Events tab displays event log messages associated with storage objects.
• The Disk View tab displays a graphical layout of the disks on your system, includ-
ing CD-ROMs or other removable media.
• The DM View tab is grayed-out on the Dell OpenManage Array Manager
Console.
Managing Disk Arrays
This section describes how to configure and manage arrays with the PERC 2/DC that
is included with the Dell PowerVault 735N NAS appliance. The PERC 2/DC controller
is a high-performance intelligent PCI-to-SCSI host adapter with RAID capabilities.
Each channel supports SCSI data transfer rates of up to 80 megabytes (MB) per sec-
ond per channel, and up to 15 devices.