Working With Internal Drives - IBM V7000 Introduction And Implementation Manual

8.1 Working with internal drives

This section describes how to configure the internal storage disk drives using different RAID
levels and different optimization strategies.
In this section, we start with the environment shown in Figure 8-1. All the internal drives are
unconfigured. Currently, the existing MDisks come from external storage, and example
storage pools, volumes, and hosts have been created for use.
You can learn how to manage MDisks and storage pools in this chapter. In Chapter 7,
"Storage Migration Wizard" on page 283, we demonstrate how to discover and import LUNs
from external disk array controllers and how to migrate data out of these and into IBM Flex
System V7000 Storage Node. You can also learn about how to create volumes and hosts, as
well as how to map volumes to hosts, in Chapter 6.3, "Mapping a volume to the host" on
page 279.
IBM Flex System V7000 Storage Node provides an individual Internal Storage window for
managing all internal drives. The Internal Storage window can be accessed by opening the
Overview window, clicking the Internal Drives function icon, and then clicking Pools.
Figure 8-1 shows you how to access the Internal Storage window from the Getting Started
window.
Figure 8-1 Access the Internal Storage window from the Overview panel
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