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Advanced Disk and Volume Management
Dell™ PowerVault™ 725N NAS Systems Administrator's Guide
Using the Array Manager to Manage Your Disks and Volumes
This section provides information about the drives on your NAS system and how to use Dell OpenManage™ Array Manager to manage your disks and volumes
and your physical hard drives.
How the Drives Are Configured
The NAS system, which is a rack-mounted system, has four IDE hard drives that are in a RAID configuration. Each drive contains both a copy of the operating
system and one or more data partitions (see
). The working copies of the Microsoft® Windows® Powered operating system and boot sectors are
installed on two hard drives in partitions that are RAID 1 (mirrored) partitions. Additional copies of the operating system are placed on the other two drives in
RAID 1 partitions. Data can be stored on all four drives in partitions that are configured as RAID 5.
Table 3-1. Hard-Drive Partitions
Using the Array Manager to Manage Your Disks and Volumes
Although Dell OpenManage Array Manager provides a comprehensive solution to storage management, you should use it for advanced features that cannot be
performed from the Disks tab in the NAS Manager.
Array Manager allows you to configure your storage devices and the logical volumes contained in your system. Array Manager displays storage configuration in
both a physical and a logical view. The physical view shows the physical connections between the storage devices. The logical view shows a logical
representation of your storage as logical volumes.
Launching Array Manager From the NAS Manager
1.
Log in to the NAS Manager.
See "
Logging in to the NAS Manager
" in "NAS Manager."
2.
Click Maintenance.
3.
Click Terminal Services.
4.
Log in to the Terminal Services session as an administrator.
5.
From the Advanced Administration Menu, click Disk Management under System Management.
6.
If a Dell OpenManage Array Manager window with buttons such as Create Volume or Create Virtual Disk displays, click the task you want to perform,
or close the window to view the Array Manager Console.
Array Manager Console
The Array Manager console display uses a tree view to display storage objects in the left pane of the window and tabbed views in the right pane to display
additional information about storage objects. The following subsections provide more information about the left and right panes.
Left Pane
The left pane shows objects that the Array Manager software detects. The major storage objects are the local system object, arrays, disks, and volumes. By
clicking the plus sign (+) in front of a storage object, you can see the subordinate storage objects under that object.
l
Disks represent the disks recognized by the Microsoft Windows Powered operating system.
Volume Disks and RAID Layout Description
C:
0 and 1: RAID 1
Primary operating system volume
D:
2 and 3: RAID 1
Recovery operating system volume
E:
0, 1, 2, and 3: RAID 5
Data volume
NOTE:
The NAS Manager default administrator user name is administrator and the default password is powervault.
NOTE:
If the Advanced Administration Menu does not display, double-click the Advanced Administration Menu icon on the desktop of the NAS
system.