Viewing Storage: Virtual Disk Details for Datacenters and Clusters
View the virtual
storage details for a datacenter or cluster on the Dell Datacenter/Cluster
tab. For information to appear on this page, you must run an inventory
job. The data you view may vary depending on which view you are accessing
the data. Hardware views are directly reporting the data from OMSA
and iDRAC. See Running an Inventory Job Now. Datacenter and cluster pages
let you export information to a CSV file and offers filter/search
functionality on the data grid.
In VMware vCenter, in the Navigator, click vCenter.
Click Datacenters or Clusters.
On the Objects tab, select the specific datacenter or cluster for which you want to view Storage: Virtual Disk details.
On the Monitor tab, select the Dell Datacenter/Cluster Information tab, and on the Storage: Virtual Disk sub-tab, view the following:
NOTE: To display the full list of details, select a specific host from the data grid.Host Displays the name of the host. Service Tag Displays the Service Tag. Name Displays the name of the virtual disk. Physical Disk Displays on which physical disk the virtual disk is located. Capacity Displays the capacity of the virtual disk. Layout Displays the layout type of the virtual storage. This means the type of RAID that was configured for this virtual disk. Host Displays the host name. Name Displays the virtual disk name. Last Inventory Displays the day, date and time the inventory was last run. Controller ID Displays the controller ID. Device ID Displays the device ID. Media Type Displays either SSD or HDD. Bus Protocol This displays the technology that the physical disks included in the virtual disk are using. Possible values are:
SCSI
SAS
SATA
Stripe Size The stripe size refers to the amount of space that each stripe consumes on a single disk. Default Read Policy The default read policy supported by the controller. Options include: Read-Ahead
No-Read-Ahead
Adaptive Read-Ahead
Read Cache Enabled
Read Cache Disabled
Default Write Policy The default write policy supported by the controller. Options include: Write-Back
Force Write Back
Write Back Enabled
Write-Through
Write Cache Enabled Protected
Write Cache Disabled
Disk Cache Policy The default cache policy supported by the controller. Options include: Enabled
This means cache I/O.
Disabled
This means direct I/O.