Dell PowerVault MD Series - Table of Contents

Contents
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings...................................................................................................2
1 Introduction................................................................................................................................15
Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager .................................................................................................15
User Interface.........................................................................................................................................................15
Enterprise Management Window...........................................................................................................................15
Inheriting The System Settings........................................................................................................................16
Array Management Window..................................................................................................................................16
Dell PowerVault Modular Disk Configuration Utility...............................................................................................17
Other Information You May Need...........................................................................................................................17
2 About Your MD Series Storage Array....................................................................................19
Physical Disks, Virtual Disks, And Disk Groups......................................................................................................19
Physical Disks..................................................................................................................................................19
Physical Disk States.........................................................................................................................................19
Self-Monitoring Analysis And Reporting Technology......................................................................................20
Virtual Disks And Disk Groups..........................................................................................................................20
Virtual Disk States............................................................................................................................................20
Disk Pools...............................................................................................................................................................21
Thin Virtual Disks....................................................................................................................................................21
RAID Levels.............................................................................................................................................................21
RAID Level Usage.............................................................................................................................................22
RAID 0...............................................................................................................................................................22
RAID 1...............................................................................................................................................................22
RAID 5...............................................................................................................................................................22
RAID 6...............................................................................................................................................................22
RAID 10.............................................................................................................................................................23
Segment Size..........................................................................................................................................................23
Virtual Disk Operations...........................................................................................................................................23
Virtual Disk Initialization...................................................................................................................................23
Consistency Check...........................................................................................................................................23
Media Verification............................................................................................................................................24
Cycle Time........................................................................................................................................................24
Virtual Disk Operations Limit............................................................................................................................24
Disk Group Operations............................................................................................................................................24
RAID Level Migration.......................................................................................................................................24
Segment Size Migration...................................................................................................................................25