Users Guide

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
• Enabling or disabling Shared PERC8 (Integrated 2)
NOTE: Initialize fast or initialize full is not displayed when virtual disks are initially created.
Topics:
• Viewing Status of the Storage Components
• Viewing the Storage Topology
• Viewing Fault-tolerant Troubleshooting Information of SPERC Using CMC Web Interface
• Assigning Virtual Adapters To Slots Using CMC Web Interface
• Fault-Tolerance in Storage Controllers
• Viewing Controller Properties Using CMC Web Interface
• Viewing Controller Properties Using RACADM
• Configuring Storage Controller Settings
• Shared PERC Controllers
• Enabling or Disabling RAID Controller Using CMC Web Interface
• Enabling or Disabling RAID Controller Using RACADM
• Enabling or disabling fault tolerance of external RAID controller using RACADM
• Viewing Physical Disk Properties Using the CMC Web Interface
• Viewing Physical Disk Drives Properties Using RACADM
• Identifying Physical Disks and Virtual Disks
• Assigning Global Hot Spares Using CMC Web Interface
• Assigning Global Hot Spares Using RACADM
• Recovering Physical Disks
• Viewing Virtual Disk Properties Using CMC Web Interface
• Viewing Virtual Disk Properties Using RACADM
• Creating Virtual Disk Using CMC Web Interface
• Applying Virtual Adapter Access Policy To Virtual Disks
• Modifying Virtual Disk Properties Using CMC Web Interface
• Enclosure Management Module
• Viewing Enclosure Properties Using CMC Web Interface
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.
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