Users Guide
Storage management allows hot plugging of enclosures. Hot plugging is dened 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 rmware. For the latest
supported rmware, contact your service provider.
After you hot plug or hot recongure an enclosure, refresh the left tree to display the change in status and conguration; a system reboot is
not required.
NOTE: Storage Management does not allow hot removal of enclosures. Reboot the system to eect this change in Storage
Management.
NOTE: Minimum of six seconds gap is required for any hot-plugable device in or out operations .
Storage Management noties 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:
• MX5016s
• Enclosure Physical Disks
• Enclosure Fans
• Enclosure Power Supplies
• Enclosure Temperature Probes
• Enclosure Management Modules (EMMs)
• Enclosure And Backplane Health
• Enclosure And Backplane Properties And Tasks
MX5016s
MX5016s is a storage sled that is connected to a blade chassis to provide extended storage access, other than the physical storage
available in the PowerEdge Modular servers. It supports up to 6 PSU at the front and maximum of 4 fans in a single chassis. It can
accommodate up to 16 HDDs (SAS/SED/SSD/). The blade chassis have IO modules connected at the back. The platform makes use of
these IO modules in order to access the disks connected to MX5016s. SATA disk supports only with compute nodes.
Hard drives connected to MX5016s can be mapped to PowerEdge Modular servers in two ways:
• Slot Mapping: In slot mapping, hard drives can be mapped to specic PowerEdge Modular servers slots. Slot level mapping of
MX5016s is possible from computes. If you have 1 compute and 3 MX5016s, you can have any individual slots of any MX5016s mapped
to the compute. Storage Management discovers and lists only the slots with hard drive present in MX5016s.
NOTE
: This release supports slot level mapping.
• Enclosure Mapping: In enclosure mapping, Storage Management discovers and lists the complete enclosure.
NOTE
: Storage Management does not monitor the inventory if MX5016s is not mapped to the specic PowerEdge Modular
servers.
NOTE: Storage Management does not enumerate any slot information if dynamic assign or unassign of empty MX5016s or drive
is not present before the dynamic assign or unassign is performed.
NOTE: For fully populated PowerEdge MX7000 chassis, the Storage Management system takes few minutes to load the storage
components.
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