Intel MFSYS25 User Guide - Page 94

Table 14. Storage Pool Tabs Tab Heading General Events Physical Drives Virtual Drives Spares Background Tasks Description The General tab displays: • Current status of the storage pool (i.e., status, health, operation state) • Storage pool configuration data (i.e., storage pool ID, name, total managed space, total unallocated space, number of physical and virtual drives included in the selected storage pool) Displays all system events for the selected storage pool. Displays a table with detailed information on the physical drives included in the selected storage pool (i.e., Drive number, Manufacturer, Product ID, Serial Number, Firmware Revision, Size, Status). Displays a table with detailed information on all virtual drives contained within the selected storage pool. The table provides the following details: Name, Size, RAID Level, Status, Drive Number, and Assigned Server. Displays a table with detailed information on all hot-spare drives. The table includes the following information: Drive Number, Role (Global versus Dedicated), Manufacturer, Product ID, Serial Number, Firmware Revision, Size and Status. Displays status and state of current tasks, such as Predictive Data Migrations and Media Patrol. Storage Pool Help To quickly access additional help regarding the storage pool screen, actions, and tabs, click on the Get Help button in the Storage Pool help box located under the actions. Creating a Virtual Drive Once a storage pool has been created, the next step is to create a virtual drive. Virtual drives are created in the storage pools and assigned to individual Server Compute Modules. The following are the key benefits of virtual drives: • Virtual drives can be quickly reassigned to different servers with a couple of mouse clicks in the Intel® Modular Server Control UI without powering down the server or storage pool. • Virtual drives in a single storage pool can be set to any RAID level that is supported by the selected storage pool. • You can quickly and easily expand the size of a virtual drive to increase storage capacity. • The assigned server's operating system will detect the virtual drive (and its associated drive position) during the boot process. Drive position 0 is the boot device. To the operating system, the virtual drive will be indistinguishable from the local physical drive on the server (if installed). • If the Intel® Shared LUN feature is activated and the operating system supports sharing LUNs, a virtual drive can be assigned to two or more servers. 78 Intel® Modular Server System User Guide