Users Guide

NOTE: When the hosts are managed by using chassis profile, if you click Storage, and then select the following from the
View drop-down menu:
● Enclosures—The Controller ID of the storage enclosure is displayed as 0 instead of the correct Controller ID.
● Physical Disks—The media type for HDD is displayed as Magnetic Drive instead of Hard Disk Drive.
Table 15. Storage details for a single host
Information Description
Virtual Disks
● Name—displays the name of the virtual drive.
● Device FQDD—displays the FQDD.
● Physical Disk—displays on which physical disk the virtual drive is located.
● Capacity—displays the capacity of the virtual drive.
● Layout—displays the layout type of the virtual storage, which means the
type of RAID that was configured for this virtual drive.
● Media Type—displays either SSD or HDD.
To view information such as Stripe Size, Bus Protocol, and Cache Policy, select a
virtual disk.
● Controller ID—displays the controller ID.
● Device ID—displays the device ID.
● Stripe Size—displays the stripe size, which is the amount of space that
each stripe consumes on a single disk.
● Bus Protocol—displays the technology that the physical disks in the virtual
drive are using. The possible values are:
○ SCSI
○ SAS
○ SATA
● Default Read Policy—displays the default read policy that is 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 that is supported by
the controller. The options include:
○ Write-Back
○ Force Write Back
○ Write Back Enabled
○ Write-Through
○ Write Cache Enabled Protected
○ Write Cache Disabled
● Cache Policy—displays if cache policy is enabled.
Physical Disks
When you select this option from the View
drop-down menu, the Filter drop-down list
is displayed.
The following options are available in the
filter:
● All Physical Disks
● Global Hot Spares
● Dedicated Hot Spares
● The last option displays custom name of
the virtual drives.
● Name—displays the name of the physical disk.
● Device FQDD—displays the device FQDD.
● Capacity—displays the physical disk capacity.
● Disk Status—displays physical disk status. The options include:
○ ONLINE
○ READY
○ DEGRADED
○ FAILED
○ OFFLINE
○ REBUILDING
○ INCOMPATIBLE
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