STORAGE
DELL POWER SOLUTIONS Re
rinted from Dell Power Solutions, August 2006. Copyright © 2006 Dell Inc. All rights reserve
ugust 200
Mana
ement tools
or the PowerVault MD1000
SAS im
lementation
After the hardware is physically deployed, virtual disks can be
con
i
ured on the drives in the enclosure usin
either the BIOS
Configuration Utility or Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
BI
onfiguration Utility
he offline/preboot BIOS Confi
uration Utility is limited to man-
ging the drives in the storage enclosure. This utility can help
ministrators manage virtua
an
p
ysica
is
s as we
as t
e
RAID controller
see Fi
ure 5
The BIOS Configuration Utility provides virtual disk man-
ement, which includes the
ollowin
capabilities
•
Viewin
the controllers in the system and
eir
ro
ertie
•
Viewin
a tree or list of all virtual disks,
h
sical disks, and s
ace allocation in the
n
r
r
•
Creatin
new virtual disks by speci
yin
vir
ua
is
names, RAID
eve
s, sizes, p
ysica
drives, number o
h
sical drives to s
an,
an
ot
er parameters
•
Con
i
urin
advanced
eatures such as stripe
size an
rea
/write
o
ic
•
nitializin
a virtual dis
•
esetting con
iguration
hysical disk mana
ement per
ormed throu
h
his utility encompasses the following capabilities
•
Viewing a
t
e
ar
rives in t
e storage
subsyste
•
Starting or stopping a
rive re
ui
•
Visually identifyin
drive
•
naffiliating a drive directly or onlin
•
Con
i
urin
a
lobal hot spar
The BIOS Confi
uration Utility also provides controller man-
gement, which includes the
ollowing capabilities
•
evisin
the controller BIOS and
irmwar
•
evising the BIOS Configuration Utilit
•
nablin
and disablin
the controller BIOS, alarms,
c
ustering, an
BIOS
a
t-on-error
uring POS
•
Selectin
a virtual disk
rom which to boo
•
Selecting controller de
aults and resetting the controller
confi
uratio
Dell
enMana
e
erver Administrator
Dell OpenMana
e Server Administrator
see Fi
ure 6
has a
arger set of management features than the offline/preboot BIOS
Con
i
uration Utility, includin
mana
ement o
the enclosure and
battery options. Management features provided by Dell OpenManage
erver Administrator include the
ollowin
•
ontroller con
i
uration
Mana
in
rebuilds, performin
background initializations and consistency checks, con
igur-
ing reconstruction rates, resetting configurations, enabling
and disablin
alarms, exportin
lo
s, and con
i
urin
and
starting t
e Bac
groun
Patro
Rea
too
•
on
iguration and management o
virtual disks:
r
orming consistency checks, assigning and unassigning
Fi
ure 5. BI
onfi
uration Utilit
i
ure 6. Enclosure information and confi
uration screen in Dell
penMana
e
erver Administrator
(29 strony)
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