Working With Internal Drives; Internal Storage Window - IBM Storwize V5010 Manual

4.1 Working with internal drives

This section describes how to configure the internal storage disk drives by using different
RAID levels and optimization strategies. For more information about RAID settings see
section 4.3.2, "RAID configuration" on page 179.
The IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 storage system provides an Internal Storage window for
managing all internal drives. The Internal Storage window can be accessed by opening the
System window, clicking the Pools option and then clicking Internal Storage, as shown in
Figure 4-1.
Figure 4-1 Path to Internal Storage window

4.1.1 Internal Storage window

The Internal Storage window (as shown in Figure 4-2 on page 145) provides an overview of
the internal drives that are installed in the IBM Storwize V5000 Gen2 storage system.
Selecting All Internal under the Drive Class Filter shows all the drives that are installed in the
managed system, including attached expansion enclosures. Alternatively, you can filter the
drives by their type or class. For example, you can choose to show only Enterprise drive class
(serial-attached Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) or (SAS)), Nearline SAS, or Flash
drives.
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