Users Guide

Table 22. Storage details for a data center and cluster
Storage: disks Description
● 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 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.
4. In the Monitor tab, select the Dell Datacenter/Cluster Information tab.
On the <Component Name> subtab, view the following information for each of the components:
Table 23. Single host information
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