To View Storage Pool Information

  1. Click Individual Configuration at the Array Management page.
  2. Select a storage array in the table and click Custom Configuration.
  3. Click Manage Pools.
  4. The storage pool summary table is displayed. The table displays the following information:

    • Pool name - name of an existing pool
    • RAID - RAID level of the pool volumes; levels are 0, 1, or 5
    • Available - the available storage capacity for new volumes you might create and add to this pool. The maximum storage size for a new volume 200 Gbytes
    • With no volumes created, the Available column shows the total storage capacity available to the pool.

      The maximum size for a new volume is 200 Gbytes. With one or more volumes created, the Available column shows the maximum allowed size for the next new volume you create and add to this pool (200 Gbytes, if this amount is available) or the actual amount of storage available to a new volume, if less than 200 Gbytes of storage is available to the pool

    • Total - the total storage capacity of the pool. Once you create a storage pool, this number remains constant
    • Hotspare - shows the number of available hotspare drives in the pool
    • Status - shows the pool status, online and available or offline and unavailable. See To Place a Storage Pool Online or Offline
    • Volumes - Click the show link in the Volumes column to display information about volumes associated with that pool. See To View Storage Pool Volume Details