Dell PowerVault DP600 - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 Expanding Disk Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Planning Additional Disk Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Estimating Additional Storage Requirements . . . . 7
RAID Adapter Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Disk Size Selection and Considerations . . . . . . . 9
Benefits of Hot Spares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing Dell OpenManage™
Server Administrator
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3 Adding Physical Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing Internal Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing a RAID Adapter for External Storage . . . . . 13
Installing an External Storage Enclosure . . . . . . . . 13
Installing Drives in the Storage Enclosure . . . . . 14
4 Configuring Virtual Disks for DPM . . . . . 15
Configuring Virtual Disks and Hot Spares
with OMSA
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Adding Available/Free Disks to DPM Storage Pool . . . 19