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Enclosures and Backplanes
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Physical disks can be contained in an enclosure or attached to the system's backplane. An enclosure is attached to the system externally while the backplane
and its physical disks are internal.
Backplanes
You can view the Backplane object by expanding the controller and Connector object in the Storage Management tree view. Storage Management displays the
status of the backplane and attached physical disks. Although a backplane is similar to an enclosure in that it is attached to a controller connector and has
physical disks, it does not have the management features (temperature probes, alarms, and so on) associated with external enclosures.
Enclosures
Storage Management enables management of various enclosures and their components. In addition to managing the physical disks contained in the
enclosure, you can monitor the status of the enclosure's fans, power supply, and temperature probes. You can view these components by expanding the
controller, Connector, and enclosure objects in the Storage Management tree view.
Storage management allows hot plugging of enclosures. Hot plugging is defined as the adding of a component to a system while the operating system is still
running.
After you hot plug or hot reconfigure an enclosure, refresh the left tree to display changes in status and configuration; a system reboot is not required.
Storage Management displays the properties of the enclosure's fans, power supply, and temperature probes. Storage Management also notifies you of
enclosure status changes through alerts that are displayed in the Alert Log.
The following sections provide more information on the enclosure components and management features provided by Storage Management:
l "SMART Thermal Shutdown"
l "Enclosure Physical Disks"
l "Enclosure Fans"
l "Enclosure Power Supplies"
l "Enclosure Temperature Probes"
l "Enclosure Management Modules (EMMs)"
l "Enclosure and Backplane Health"
l "Enclosure and Backplane Properties and Tasks"
Backplanes
Enclosures
SMART Thermal Shutdown
Changing the Mode on PowerVault 220S and
PowerVault 221S Enclosures
Enclosure Management
Enclosure and Backplane Health
Enclosure and Backplane Properties and Tasks
Set Asset Data
Set Temperature Probe Values
EMM Properties
Fan Properties
Power Supply Properties
Temperature Probe Properties and Tasks
NOTE: This feature requires that the physical devices connected to the controller have the latest firmware. For the latest supported firmware, see the
Dell Support website at support.dell.com.
NOTE: Storage Management does not allow hot removal of enclosures. You must reboot the system to effect this change in Storage Management.