Managing Disks; Listing Available Disks; Rescanning For Disks; Creating A Hotspare - Dell PowerVault 750N System Administrator Manual

Managing Disks

The NAS Manager allows you to perform the most often used disk management tasks on
the external disk arrays. With the NAS Manager, you can list available disks, rescan for disks,
create a hot spare, free a hot spare, and force a disk online.
NOTE: See "Advanced Disk and Volume Management Using Array Manager" for advance
operations on all RAID controllers.

Listing Available Disks

On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
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On the Disks page, select the Disks.
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In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the
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adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
On the Tasks list, click Select....
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A page titled with the adapter name that contains a list of disk drives displays.

Rescanning for Disks

On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
1
On the Disks page, select the Disks.
2
In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the
3
adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
In the Tasks list, click Select....
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In the Tasks list on the adapter page, click Rescan....
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Creating a Hotspare

On the NAS Manager primary menu, select Disks.
1
On the Disks page, select the Disks.
2
In the Adapter column on the Configure, create, or delete volumes page, select the
3
adapter to list disks for by clicking the adjacent radio button.
In the Tasks list, click Select....
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