Dell PowerVault DL2000 - Manual (Page 52)

If the DL Appliance uses a policy called Automatic without confirmation, Backup
Exec immediately creates the virtual disks. It adds the virtual disks to the All
Virtual Disks device pool and to the storage array that is found under Storage
Arrays.
See “About the DL Appliance configuration states and configuration policies”
on page 9.
Detecting new physical disks in the storage array enclosure
New SATA physical disks that you add to the storage array enclosure are
automatically detected when you start Backup Exec. Backup Exec also detects
them when you run the Scan operation. Run a scan operation to let Backup Exec
detect new storage arrays, physical disks, or virtual disks.
To detect new physical disks
1 On the navigation bar, click Devices.
2 Expand Storage Arrays.
3 In the task pane, under Media Tasks, click Scan.
After the scan completes, the new storage array appears in the Devices view,
under Storage Arrays.
4 If the scan does not discover the storage array, restart the Backup Exec
services.
After you restart the services, the new storage array appears in the Devices
view, under Storage Arrays.
About manually creating a virtual disk
You can use the Dell™ OpenManage™ Server Administrator to manually create a
virtual disk. After you manually create the virtual disk, Backup Exec automatically
detects it as an unconfigured virtual disk on the storage array. An unconfigured
virtual disk must be configured before Backup Exec can use it.
Configuring an unconfigured virtual disk for use with Backup Exec
After you create a virtual disk with the Dell™ OpenManage™ Server Administrator,
you must configure the virtual disk to use with Backup Exec. Backup Exec can
only use configured virtual disks as destination devices for jobs. When you
configure the virtual disk, Backup Exec submits a job named Configure Virtual
Disk. When the job completes, the virtual disk is configured and added to the All
Virtual Disks device pool.
Expanding storage capabilities of the Dell™ PowerVault™ DL Backup to Disk Appliance by using the Storage Provisioning
Option
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