Dell PowerVault 725N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 21)

l Volumes include dynamic RAID volumes created in Array Manager, primary and extended partitions, and logical drives associated with extended
partitions.
l My Network Places, History, and Favorites provide remote connection functionality not supported by the NAS system and should be ignored.
Right Pane
The right pane identifies the various objects and their status and displays any error conditions that might exist. The four tabbed views in the right pane
include the following:
l The General tab displays parameters based on the objects you select in the console's tree view.
The parameters for Disks are as follows:
¡ Name is the name of the object.
¡ Status can vary, depending on the object. Common status conditions are Online, Healthy, and Resynching.
¡ Type identifies the object, such as Dynamic Disk.
¡ Disk Group shows an entry for disks in a basic or dynamic group.
¡ Capacity is the maximum size of the disk.
¡ Unallocated Space is the amount of free hard-drive space still available.
¡ Graphical Layout is a graphical representation of how much of the disk is being used.
¡ Progress shows the current progress (percentage of completion) for tasks.
¡ Device is the type of disk: All of the drives on the NAS system are IDE drives. However, two of the drives will appear in Array Manager as SCSI
drives. This is a design issue that will be addressed in a later release.
¡ Port identifies the controller card. A SCSI port has zero or more target IDs, and a target ID has one or more logical unit numbers (LUNs).
¡ LUN is the logical unit number.
¡ Target is the SCSI ID that uniquely identifies the disk on the controller card.
¡ Vendor identifies the vendor on hardware objects.
The parameters for Volumes are as follows:
¡ Name is the name of the object.
¡ Status can vary, depending on the object. Common status conditions are Online, Healthy, and Resynching.
¡ Layout identifies the object, such as Dynamic Mirrored Volume and Dynamic Striped Volume.
¡ Disk Group shows an entry for disks in a basic or dynamic group.
¡ Capacity is the maximum size of the disk.
¡ Free Space is the amount of free hard-drive space still available.
¡ Progress shows the current progress (percentage of completion) for tasks.
¡ File System shows the type of file system.
¡ Graphical Layout is a graphical representation of how much of the disk is being used.
l The Events tab displays event log messages associated with storage objects.
l The Disk View tab displays a graphical layout of the disks on your system, including CDs or other removable media.
l The DM View tab is grayed-out on the Array Manager console.
Disk Management
This subsection provides conceptual and procedural information about how Array Manager implements basic and dynamic disks.
The following topics are discussed:
l Upgrading a basic disk to a dynamic disk
l Reactivating dynamic disks
l Merging foreign disks
Upgrading a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk
Basic and Dynamic Disks
Disks are any storage unit presented to Windows 2000 as a single contiguous block of storage. When using the Array Manager, you can use two types of
disks—basic or dynamic.
Basic disks employ the traditional disk partitioning used by MS-DOS® and Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT® 4.0 operating systems. A
basic disk can have up to four primary partitions or three primary partitions plus an extended partition. The extended partition can be subdivided into a
number of logical drives.