Viewing managed disk group details

Use the Viewing MDisk Group Details panel in the SAN Volume Controller Console to display information about a selected MDisk group.

Attributes

The following attributes are displayed in the table:

ID
Displays the system-assigned ID for the MDisk group.
Name
Displays the name of the MDisk.
State
Displays the current state of the MDisk group. The state can be one of the following values:
Online
Indicates that the MDisk group is online and available and that all the MDisks in the group are available.
Degraded
Indicates that the MDisk group is available, but one or more MDisks in the group are in the Degraded state.
Offline
Indicates that the MDisk group is offline and unavailable, because at least one MDisk in the group is offline or excluded.
MDisk Count
Displays the number of MDisks that are assigned to this group.
VDisk Count
Displays the number of virtual disks (VDisks) that have been created from this group.
Capacity
Displays the size of the MDisk group. The size equals the total capacity of all the MDisks that are assigned to this group. If the capacity is less than one gigabyte, the capacity is displayed in MB; otherwise, it is displayed in GB.
Note: The capacity is rounded to two decimal places.
Extent Size
Displays the size of the extents that are allocated in the group. This value is chosen when the group is created. The following values are valid:
  • 16 MB
  • 32 MB
  • 64 MB
  • 128 MB
  • 256 MB
  • 512 MB
  • 1024 MB
  • 2048 MB
Free Space
Displays the amount of free space, in MB, that is in this group. The space equals the total capacity that is available for creating new VDisks. This is equal to the capacity of all the MDisks that are in the group minus the capacity of the VDisks created from this group.
ID
Displays the system-assigned ID for the MDisk group.
State
Displays the current state of the MDisk group. The state can be one of the following values:
Online
Indicates that the MDisk group is online and available and that all the MDisks in the group are available.
Degraded Paths
Indicates that the one or more MDisks within the group are not accessible to one or more nodes in the cluster. Degraded path state is most likely the result of incorrect configuration of either the disk controller or the fibre-channel fabric. However, hardware failures in the disk controller, fibre-channel fabric, or node could also be a contributing factor to this state. Complete the following actions to recover from this state:
  1. Verify that the fabric configuration rules for storage systems are correct.
  2. Ensure that you have configured the storage system properly.
  3. Correct any errors in the error log.
Degraded Ports
Indicates that one or more 1220 errors have been logged against the one or more MDisks within the selected MDisk group. The 1220 error indicates that the remote fibre-channel port has been excluded from the MDisk. This error may cause reduced performance on the storage controller and usually indicates a hardware problem with the storage controller. To fix this problem you must resolve any hardware problems on the storage controller and fix the 1220 errors in the error log. To resolve these errors in the log, select Service and Maintenance > Run Maintenance Procedures. On the Maintenance Procedures panel, select Start Analysis. This action displays a list of unfixed errors that are currently in the error log. For these unfixed errors, select the error name to begin a guided maintenance procedure to resolve these errors. Errors are listed in descending order with the highest priority error listed first. Highest priority errors should be resolved first.
Offline
Indicates that the MDisk group is offline and unavailable, because at least one MDisk in the group is offline or excluded.
Name
Displays the name of the MDisk.
MDisk Count
Displays the number of MDisks that are assigned to this group.
VDisk Count
Displays the number of virtual disks (VDisks) that have been created from this group.
Displays the number of virtual disk (VDisk) copies that have been created from this group.
Capacity
Displays the size of the MDisk group. The size equals the total capacity of all the MDisks that are assigned to this group. If the capacity is less than one gigabyte, the capacity is displayed in MB; otherwise, it is displayed in GB.
Note: The capacity is rounded to two decimal places.
Extent Size
Displays the size of the extents that are allocated in the group. This value is selected when the group is created. The following values are valid:
  • 16 MB
  • 32 MB
  • 64 MB
  • 128 MB
  • 256 MB
  • 512 MB
  • 1024 MB
  • 2048 MB
Free Space
Displays the amount of free space, in MB, that is in this MDisk group. The space equals the total capacity that is available for creating new VDisks.
Virtual Capacity
The total virtual capacity of all the VDisk copies in the MDisk group. If you have configured space-efficient VDisk in the MDisk group this value can be different to the real capacity and the used capacity.
Used Capacity
Displays the total used capacity of all the VDisk copies in the MDisk group.
Real Capacity
Displays the total real capacity of all the VDisk copies in the MDisk group.
Overallocation
Displays the ratio of virtual capacity to real capacity, as a percentage.
Warning
Displays the warning level for this MDisk group. When the percentage of extents that are used in the MDisk group exceeds this level, a warning is issued. If this value is set to zero, the warning feature is disabled.

Actions

The following actions are available:

To exit this panel, click Close.

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