Administrator Guide

Managing DR Series Storage Operations

This chapter describes how to use the DR Series system to perform data storage operations, including creating and

managing containers, setting up and managing replication, viewing detailed client information, and setting up and

managing encryption.

Understanding the Storage Page and Options

To open the

Storage page, click

Dashboard → Storage. This page displays system-related storage information in the

following panes:

NOTE

: The DR Series system polls and updates statistics every 30 seconds.

• Storage Summary

– Number of Containers

– Number of Containers Replicated

– Total Number of Files in All Containers

– Compression Level

• Capacity:

– Used and free system physical capacity in both percentages and Gibibytes (GiB) or Tebibytes (TiB)

• Storage Savings:

– Total savings (deduplication and compression) graphed in percentages and based on time in minutes; you can

display the statistics in 1–hour (1h), 1–day (1d), 5–day (5d), 1–month (1m), and 1–year (1y); 1–hour is the default.

• Throughput:

– Read and write rates graphed in Mebibytes per second (MiB/s) and based on time in minutes; you can display

the statistics in 1–hour (1h), 1–day (1d), 5–days (5d), 1–month (1m), and 1–year (1y); 1–hour is the default.

• Physical Storage

– Type: internal or external storage (external is the expansion shelf enclosure)

– Raw Size (storage capacity listed in Gigabytes or Terabytes)

– % Used (represents the percent of capacity used)

– Service Tag (tag is a unique 7–digit Dell ID)

– Configured (status is listed as yes, no, add, or detect)

– State (storage status is ready, reading, initializing, rebuilding, or not detected)

NOTE

: To refresh the values listed in Storage Savings and Throughput , click

. To refresh an expansion shelf

enclosure, click Detect under the Configured column in the Physical Storage summary table (the

Enclosure Detect

dialog is displayed with this message:

If the enclosure is undetected, please wait five minutes and try again. If the

enclosure still remains undetected after an attempt, keep the enclosure powered On and reboot the appliance

For more information about DR Series system container operations, see

Managing Container Operations.