Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series - Table of Contents

Technical Guide Book for PowerVault MD3200MD3220
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Contents
Product Overview .......................................................................................................4
6Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS 2.0) ...................................................................................4
Chassis ....................................................................................................................8
Front View and Features ...............................................................................................9
Hard Drives ...............................................................................................................14
Hard Drive Indicators ...................................................................................................16
Storage Capacity Expansion ...........................................................................................17
SAS Cables ................................................................................................................18
6Gb SAS HBA ..............................................................................................................18
MD Storage Manager ....................................................................................................19
MD3200 Series Storage Manager Software Packages ..............................................................19
Enterprise Window ......................................................................................................20
Array Window ............................................................................................................21
Recovery Guru ...........................................................................................................28
Working with Physical and Logical Disks ............................................................................29
Disk Group Configuration ..............................................................................................29
Virtual Disk Configuration ..............................................................................................30
Configuration Metadata ................................................................................................31
Global Hot Spares .......................................................................................................31
Storage Partitioning .....................................................................................................31
Snapshot ..................................................................................................................32
Virtual Disk Copy ........................................................................................................32
Online Administration ..................................................................................................33