Disk Manager

Disk Manager allows you to view the properties and additional information pertaining to physical disks and protected volumes known to the local storage server, as well as enable and use Proxy Mode.  (Refer to Enabling/Disabling Proxy Mode and Identifying and Creating Proxied Volumes for instructions on using this tool to configure Proxied Volumes.) Disk Manager is available from SANsymphony Console, which is accessed from the Tools menu in the SANcentral interface.

Disk Manager tool provides information on the following items:

  • Physical Disks – Disks that are connected to the local storage server.

  • Protected Volumes – Volumes that are already managed by the local storage server.

To open the Disk Manager Help, select the tool snap-in in the console tree and click the Help button ( SANsymphony help Disk Manager ). The Help button on the toolbar is context specific. Alternatively, you can select the tool snap-in and choose Help from the shortcut menu.

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Below is a view of Disk Manager with Proxy Mode enabled and the Proxy Volume icons activated in the toolbar (circled). (The Proxy Volume icons only appear when Proxy Mode is enabled and Proxied Volume candidates are available.) Refer to Disk Manager Icons for complete descriptions of the icons in the Disk Manager Toolbar.

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Below is a description of the column information when the Physical Disks component is selected in Disk Manager. Review any referenced topics for additional information.

Physical Disks – Column Fields

Disk Number

Identifies the disk number, as found in Windows Disk Management.

Size

Size of the disk.

Property

Identifies the role of the individual storage device on the storage server.  Available properties include:

BootDisk – The boot disk of the storage server.

Standard – An initialized disk with partitions, recognized by SANsymphony software, but not protected by it.

StandardManaged – An initialized disk with partitions, protected by SANsymphony software.

StandardRawDisk – An initialized, unallocated, non-partitioned raw disk, recognized by SANsymphony software.

NMV PoolDiskHidden –  A disk in an NMV pool.

SDS Mirror– A mirror disk presented to from the partner storage server.

AimDisk – AIM loopback disk.

ProxiedHidden – Identifies a disk marked as a Proxied Volume and unreadable in Windows Disk Management.

Hidden – A volume that is unreadable in Windows Disk Management. Any disk not preformatted with Windows data will be automatically hidden when discovered by Disk Manager.

 

The viewing of disks in the interface can be controlled by Display Options.

Disk Cache

Property of the disk cache:R (read-enabled), W (write-enabled), or R,W (read/write-enabled).

Vendor ID

Identifies the manufacturer of the storage device.

Product ID

Identifies the model number (brand specific) and/or the drive configuration (e.g. RAID) of each device.

Revision ID

SCSI disk revision ID.

Serial Number

Serial number of the specific storage device.

Address

Location of the disk, in order: Port number, path ID, target ID, LUN

V. Name

SANsymphony volume identifier.

 

Below is a view of the Protected Volumes component in Disk Manager.

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Below is a description of the column information when the Protected Volumes component is selected in Disk Manager.

Protected Volumes – Column Fields

Name

Identifies the internal name of the volume as seen by Windows Disk Management.

Disk Number

Identifies the disk number, as found in Windows Disk Management.

Volume Offset

Where the volume starts on the disk.

Volume Size (MB)

Identifies the size of the disk, displayed in megabytes.

V. Name

SANsymphony volume identifier.

Drive Letter

Letter assigned in Windows Disk Management.

Context Menu Items

The table below provides the context menu items available in Disk Manager. Context menus are activated when an element is selected and the appropriate mouse button is clicked. Review any referenced topics for additional information.

Element

Description

Disk Manager

Enable Proxy Mode – Enables Proxy Mode for the local storage server. Refer to Enabling Proxy Mode.

Disable Proxy Mode – Disables Proxy Mode for the local storage server.

Physical Disks

Refresh - Refresh the contents of the display.

Rescan Disks - Takes inventory of the disks and updates the display with changes, if necessary.

Display Options – Controls the selection of disks seen in the pane. Selections include: SDS Mirrors, Loop Back Disks, NMV Pool Disks, Windows Standard Disks.

Protected Volumes

Refresh - Refresh the contents of the display.

Disk (right pane) when Physical Disks is selected

Show Disk* – Allows access to a proxied volume candidate, in order to make it a proxied volume or make it a standard disk (not available for proxy mode).

Hide Disk* - Prevents access to a volume thereby preventing any action on the volume.

Create Proxied Volume* - Refer to Identifying and Creating Proxied Volumes for information.

Create Standard Disk* – Writes a DataCore signature on the disk, so that it can be used as a standard SANsymphony disk and therefore, cannot be used as a proxied volume. This option should never be selected for a volume that you want to identify as a Proxied Volume.

Properties – Displays properties of the disk.

* Only available when Proxy Mode is enabled.

Disk (right pane) when Protected Volumes is selected

Protect File System Volume – Allows you to protect and manage a Windows volume with formatted partitions and existing data. Refer to Protect File System Volume for more information.

 

For information on saving Disk Manager files for diagnosing an event, refer to Support Bundle.

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