Software Support

Enclosures And Backplanes

Physical disks can be contained in an enclosure or attached to the backplane of a system. An enclosure is attached to

the system externally while the backplane and its physical disks are internal.

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Enclosures

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 the attached physical disks. Backplane is similar to

an enclosure. In a Backplane, the controller connector and physical disks are attached to the enclosure, but 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 fans, power supply, and temperature probes

in an enclosure. 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.

NOTE: This feature requires that the physical devices connected to the controller have the latest firmware. For the

latest supported firmware, contact your service provider.

After you hot plug or hot reconfigure an enclosure, refresh the left tree to display the change in status and configuration;

a system reboot is not required.

NOTE: Storage Management does not allow hot removal of enclosures. Reboot the system to effect this change in

Storage Management.

Storage Management 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:

• SMART Thermal Shutdown

• Enclosure Physical Disks

• Enclosure Fans

• Enclosure Power Supplies

• Enclosure Temperature Probes

• Enclosure Management Modules (EMMs)

• Enclosure And Backplane Health