Deployment Guide

Managing your storage enclosure

Physical disk drive storage within the enclosure can be configured using either the BIOS configuration utility or OpenManage Server

Administrator. For optimal management and serviceability of your enclosure, it is recommended that you use OpenManage Server

Administrator.

NOTE: Online configuration, enclosure status, and active event notification is supported only with OpenManage Server

Administrator version 6.2 or later.

OpenManage Server Administrator provides a comprehensive server or storage management solution with an integrated graphical view

and command line interface (CLI). It enables online configuration and management for both internal storage and externally attached

storage.

OpenManage Server Administrator obtains information about physical storage devices, disk enclosures, virtual disks or RAID arrays, and

logical devices. The information is displayed in both physical and logical views.

By using OpenManage Server Administrator you can:

• Create and manage RAID storage configurations

• Display storage information

• Customize event reporting

• View logged events

For more information, see the OpenManage Server Administrator documentation at https://www.dell.com/openmanagemanuals.

10 Managing your storage enclosure