Administrator Guide

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Contents

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings...................................................................................................2

1 Introduction................................................................................................................................15

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager .................................................................................................15

User Interface.........................................................................................................................................................15

Enterprise Management Window...........................................................................................................................15

Inheriting The System Settings........................................................................................................................16

Array Management Window..................................................................................................................................16

Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Configuration Utility...............................................................................................17

Other Information You May Need...........................................................................................................................17

2 About Your MD Series Storage Array....................................................................................19

Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, And Disk Groups......................................................................................................19

Physical Disks..................................................................................................................................................19

Physical Disk States.........................................................................................................................................19

Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology......................................................................................20

Virtual Disks And Disk Groups..........................................................................................................................20

Virtual Disk States............................................................................................................................................20

Disk Pools...............................................................................................................................................................21

Thin Virtual Disks....................................................................................................................................................21

RAID Levels.............................................................................................................................................................21

RAID Level Usage.............................................................................................................................................22

RAID 0...............................................................................................................................................................22

RAID 1...............................................................................................................................................................22

RAID 5...............................................................................................................................................................22

RAID 6...............................................................................................................................................................22

RAID 10.............................................................................................................................................................23

Segment Size..........................................................................................................................................................23

Virtual Disk Operations...........................................................................................................................................23

Virtual Disk Initialization...................................................................................................................................23

Consistency Check...........................................................................................................................................23

Media Verification............................................................................................................................................24

Cycle Time........................................................................................................................................................24

Virtual Disk Operations Limit............................................................................................................................24

Disk Group Operations............................................................................................................................................24

RAID Level Migration.......................................................................................................................................24

Segment Size Migration...................................................................................................................................25