Users Guide

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Managing Chassis Storage
On the Dell PowerEdge VRTX, you can perform the following operations:
• View the status of physical disks drives and storage controllers.
• View the properties of controllers, physical disk drives, virtual disks, and enclosures.
• Set up controllers, physical disk drives, and virtual disks.
• Assign virtual adapters.
• Troubleshoot controller, physical disk drives, and virtual disks.
• Update storage components.
• Use the shared storage controllers in fault-tolerant mode
Viewing Status of the Storage Components
To view the status of the storage components:
1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Storage → Properties → Storage Overview.
2. On the Storage Overview page, you can:
• View the graphic summary of the physical disk drives installed in the chassis and their status.
• View the summary of all the storage components with links to their respective pages.
• View the used capacity and total capacity of the storage.
• View controller information.
NOTE: In case of a fault-tolerant controller, the name format is: Shared <PERC number>
(Integrated <number>). For example, the active controller is Shared PERC8 (Integrated 1)
and the peer controller is Shared PERC8 (Integrated 2).
NOTE: If the secondary PERC is disabled, the name is displayed as Disabled PERC
(Integrated 2).
• View recently-logged storage events.
NOTE: For more information, see the Online Help.
Viewing the Storage Topology
To view the Storage topology:
1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Storage → Properties → Topology.
2. On the Topology page, click the <controller name> to view the respective pages.
NOTE: You can view the name of the controller that is active in controlling the storage devices
associated with this CMC and also the passive controller acting as a stand-by.
3. Under each installed controllers, click the links View Virtual Disks, <enclosure name>, and View
Physical Disks to open the respective pages.
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