Dell PowerVault DP600 - Manual (Page 20)

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• Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN)
• iSCSI storage device or SAN
The storage pool supports most disk types, including Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), Serial
Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA), and SCSI, and it supports both the master boot
record (MBR) and GUID partition table (GPT) partition styles.
You cannot add USB/1394 disks to the DPM storage pool.
DPM cannot use space in any pre-existing volumes on disks added to the storage pool. Although
a pre-existing volume on a storage pool disk might have free space, DPM can use space only in
volumes that it creates. To make the entire disk space available to the storage pool, delete any
existing volumes on the disk and then add the disk to the storage pool.
Important
Some original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) include a diagnostic partition that is
installed from media that they provide. The diagnostic partition might also be named the
OEM partition, or the EISA partition. EISA partitions must be removed from disks before
you can add the disk to the DPM storage pool.
In This Section
Adding Disks to the Storage Pool
How to Replace a Disk in the Storage Pool
Removing a Disk from the Storage Pool
See Also
Monitoring DPM Server
Performing DPM Server Management Tasks
Performing General DPM Server Maintenance
Adding Disks to the Storage Pool
DPM cannot use space in any pre-existing volumes on disks added to the storage pool. Although
a pre-existing volume on a storage pool disk might have free space, DPM can use space only in
volumes that it creates. To make the entire disk space available to the storage pool, delete any
existing volumes on the disk and then add the disk to the storage pool.
DPM regularly rescans the disks and volumes in the storage pool and updates the storage pool
space. If you add a disk that contains a volume to the storage pool and later delete that volume,
when DPM rescans the disk, it will add the new unallocated space to the available storage pool.
If the name of a disk is listed as “Unknown” on the Disks tab in the Management task area of
DPM Administrator Console, you cannot add the disk to the storage pool until the disk name is
corrected. To resolve this issue, perform the following procedure.