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Managing DR Series Storage Operations, Understanding the Storage and Options

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5 Managing DR Series Storage Operations This chapter describes how to use the DR Series system to perform data storage operations, including creating and managing containers, setting up and managing replication, viewing detailed client information, and setting up and managing encryption. Understanding the Storage Page and Options To open the Storage page, click Dashboard → Storage. This page displays system-related storage information in the following panes: NOTE: The DR Series system polls and updates statistics every 30 seconds. • Storage Summary: - Number of Containers - Number of Containers Replicated - Total Number of Files in All Containers - Compression Level • Capacity: - Used and free system physical capacity in both percentages and Gibibytes (GiB) or Tebibytes (TiB) • Storage Savings: - Total savings (deduplication and compression) graphed in percentages and based on time in minutes; you can display the statistics in 1-hour (1h), 1-day (1d), 5-day (5d), 1-month (1m), and 1-year (1y); 1-hour is the default. • Throughput: - Read and write rates graphed in Mebibytes per second (MiB/s) and based on time in minutes; you can display the statistics in 1-hour (1h), 1-day (1d), 5-days (5d), 1-month (1m), and 1-year (1y); 1-hour is the default. • Physical Storage: - Type: internal or external storage (external is the expansion shelf enclosure) - Raw Size (storage capacity listed in Gigabytes or Terabytes) - % Used (represents the percent of capacity used) - Service Tag (tag is a unique 7-digit Dell ID) - Configured (status is listed as yes, no, add, or detect) - State (storage status is ready, reading, initializing, rebuilding, or not detected) NOTE: To refresh the values listed in Storage Savings and Throughput , click . To refresh an expansion shelf enclosure, click Detect under the Configured column in the Physical Storage summary table (the Enclosure Detect dialog is displayed with this message: If the enclosure is undetected, please wait five minutes and try again. If the enclosure still remains undetected after an attempt, keep the enclosure powered On and reboot the appliance). For more information about DR Series system container operations, see Managing Container Operations. 56

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5
Managing DR Series Storage Operations
This chapter describes how to use the DR Series system to perform data storage operations, including creating and
managing containers, setting up and managing replication, viewing detailed client information, and setting up and
managing encryption.
Understanding the Storage Page and Options
To open the
Storage
page, click
Dashboard
→
Storage
. This page displays system-related storage information in the
following panes:
NOTE:
The DR Series system polls and updates statistics every 30 seconds.
•
Storage Summary
:
–
Number of Containers
–
Number of Containers Replicated
–
Total Number of Files in All Containers
–
Compression Level
•
Capacity
:
–
Used and free system physical capacity in both percentages and Gibibytes (GiB) or Tebibytes (TiB)
•
Storage Savings
:
–
Total savings (deduplication and compression) graphed in percentages and based on time in minutes; you can
display the statistics in 1–hour (1h), 1–day (1d), 5–day (5d), 1–month (1m), and 1–year (1y); 1–hour is the default.
•
Throughput
:
–
Read and write rates graphed in Mebibytes per second (MiB/s) and based on time in minutes; you can display
the statistics in 1–hour (1h), 1–day (1d), 5–days (5d), 1–month (1m), and 1–year (1y); 1–hour is the default.
•
Physical Storage
:
–
Type: internal or external storage (external is the expansion shelf enclosure)
–
Raw Size (storage capacity listed in Gigabytes or Terabytes)
–
% Used (represents the percent of capacity used)
–
Service Tag (tag is a unique 7–digit Dell ID)
–
Configured (status is listed as yes, no, add, or detect)
–
State (storage status is ready, reading, initializing, rebuilding, or not detected)
NOTE:
To refresh the values listed in
Storage Savings
and
Throughput
, click
. To refresh an expansion shelf
enclosure, click
Detect
under the Configured column in the Physical Storage summary table (the
Enclosure Detect
dialog is displayed with this message:
If the enclosure is undetected, please wait five minutes and try again. If the
enclosure still remains undetected after an attempt, keep the enclosure powered On and reboot the appliance
).
For more information about DR Series system container operations, see
Managing Container Operations
.
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