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Storage: disks Description

• Part Number—displays the storage part number

• Serial Number—displays the storage serial number

• Vendor Name—displays the storage vendor name

Virtual Disk

• Host—displays the name of the host

• Service Tag—displays the service tag of the host

• Name—displays the name of the virtual disk

• Physical Disk—displays on which physical disk the virtual disk is located

• Capacity—displays the capacity of the virtual disk

• Layout—displays the layout type of the virtual storage. This means the type of RAID

that was configured for this virtual disk

• Last Inventory—displays the day, date and time the inventory was last run

• Controller ID—displays the controller ID

• Device ID—displays the device ID

• Media Type—displays either SSD or HDD

• Bus Protocol—displays the technology that the physical disks included in the virtual

disk are using. The possible values are:

• SCSI

• SAS

• SATA

• Stripe Size—displays the stripe size, which provides the amount of space that each

stripe consumes on a single disk

• Default Read Policy—displays the default read policy supported by the controller. The

options include:

• Read-Ahead

• No-Read-Ahead

• Adaptive Read-Ahead

• Read Cache Enabled

• Read Cache Disabled

• Default Write Policy—displays the default write policy supported by the controller.

The options include:

• Write-Back

• Force Write Back

• Write Back Enabled

• Write-Through

• Write Cache Enabled Protected

• Write Cache Disabled

• Disk Cache Policy—displays the default cache policy supported by the controller.

The options include:

• Enabled—cache I/O

• Disabled—direct I/O

Viewing additional hardware details for data center and

clusters

You can view the firmware, power monitoring, warranty status details for a data center and cluster on the Dell EMC Datacenter/

Cluster Information tab. For information to appear on this page, run an inventory job. The data center and cluster pages enable you to

export information to a CSV file and offers filter/search functionality on the data grid. The hardware views directly report the data from

OMSA and iDRAC. See Running an inventory job now.

1. In OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, in the Navigator pane, click vCenter.

2. Click Datacenters or Clusters.

3. In the Objects tab, select the specific data center or cluster for which you want to view the host component details.

Inventory and warranty management