Dell EMC PowerVault MD Series Administrator's Manual page 7

Using free capacity....................................................................................................................................................90
Using unconfigured capacity.................................................................................................................................... 90
Disk group migration.........................................................................................................................................................91
Export disk group........................................................................................................................................................91
Import disk group....................................................................................................................................................... 92
Storage array media scan................................................................................................................................................92
Changing media scan settings..................................................................................................................................93
Suspending media scan.............................................................................................................................................93
8 Disk pools and disk pool virtual disks............................................................................................................94
Difference between disk groups and disk pools........................................................................................................... 95
Disk pool restrictions....................................................................................................................................................... 95
Creating a disk pool manually......................................................................................................................................... 95
Automatically managing unconfigured capacity in disk pools.....................................................................................96
Locating physical disks in a disk pool............................................................................................................................. 97
Renaming a disk pool....................................................................................................................................................... 97
Configuring alert notifications for a disk pool............................................................................................................... 97
Adding unassigned physical disks to a disk pool.......................................................................................................... 98
Configuring the preservation capacity of a disk pool.................................................................................................. 98
Changing the modification priority of a disk pool.........................................................................................................98
Changing the RAID controller module ownership of a disk pool................................................................................ 99
Checking data consistency.............................................................................................................................................99
Deleting disk pool........................................................................................................................................................... 100
Viewing storage array logical components and associated physical components ................................................. 101
Secure disk pools.............................................................................................................................................................101
Changing capacity on existing thin virtual disks......................................................................................................... 102
Creating thin virtual disk from disk pool...................................................................................................................... 102
9 Using SSD cache........................................................................................................................................104
How SSD cache works.................................................................................................................................................. 104
Benefits of SSD cache...................................................................................................................................................104
Choosing SSD cache parameters.................................................................................................................................105
SSD cache restrictions.................................................................................................................................................. 105
Creating an SSD cache..................................................................................................................................................105
Viewing physical components associated with an SSD cache................................................................................. 106
Locating physical disks in an SSD cache..................................................................................................................... 106
Adding physical disks to an SSD cache....................................................................................................................... 106
Removing physical disks from an SSD cache..............................................................................................................107
Suspending or resuming SSD caching......................................................................................................................... 107
Changing I/O type in an SSD cache............................................................................................................................ 107
Renaming an SSD cache............................................................................................................................................... 107
Deleting SSD cache....................................................................................................................................................... 108
Using the performance modeling tool..........................................................................................................................108
10 Premium feature-Snapshot Virtual Disk..................................................................................................109
Snapshot images and groups........................................................................................................................................109
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