Viewing the disks on a host
You can use the Management Server console to view all the disks associated with a selected host, view details for each disk, and perform operations on disks.
Some of the disk details are the following:
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VxVM Name: Name of the VxVM volume that is associated with this disk
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Disk Group Type: For VxVM disks, this can be private or shared
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Avid: Array vendor identifier - a unique identifier for the array LUN
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EFI: A flag for boot disk on HP-UX
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Media type: For example, HDD or SSD
The same view displays the device Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) paths to the selected disk, including the type of multipathing, whether the path is enabled, and the name of the initiator on the path.
In addition, for hosts in a CVM cluster, the Host Relations subtab provides information regarding on which hosts a selected disk is exported versus remote.
You can view this information related to the hosts for which your user group has at least Guest role explicitly assigned or inherited from a parent Organization. You can also view the information if your user group has at least Guest role assigned on the Server perspective.
To view operations you can perform, right-click a disk.
Some of the operations you can perform include the following:
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View disk performance.
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Create disk group.
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Add disk to the disk group.
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Recover disk.
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Replace disk.
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Reclaim thin storage (for thin disks on Storage Foundation 6.0 or later, managed host 5.0 or later)
To view the disks on a host
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In the Management Server console, go to the Server perspective and expand Manage in the left pane.
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Expand the Organization or Uncategorized Hosts to locate the host.
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Click the name of a host in the tree.
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Click the Disks tab.
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Select a disk to view its properties in the Properties pane and to view its paths in the Paths table below. For hosts in a CVM cluster, you can use the Host Relations subtab to view information regarding on which hosts the disk is exported versus remote.
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