Viewing Storage: Physical Disks for Datacenters and Clusters
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: Physical Disk details.
On the Monitor tab, select the Dell Datacenter/Cluster Information tab, and on the Storage: Physical Disk sub-tab, view the following:
Host Displays the name of the host. Service Tag Displays the Service Tag. Capacity Displays the physical disk capacity. Disk Status Displays physical disk status. Options include: ONLINE
READY
DEGRADED
FAILED
OFFLINE
REBUILDING
INCOMPATIBLE
REMOVED
CLEARED
SMART ALERT DETECTED
UNKNOWN
FOREIGN
UNSUPPORTED
Model Number Displays the model number of the physical storage disk. Host Displays the host name. Last Inventory Displays the day, month, and time of the last inventory that was run. Status Displays the host status. Controller ID Displays the controller ID. Connector ID Displays the connector ID. Enclosure ID Displays the enclosure ID. Device ID Displays the device ID. Bus Protocol Displays the bus protocol. Hot Spare Type Shows the hot spare type. Options include: No
No means there is no hot spare.
Global
A global hot spare is an unused backup disk that is part of the disk group.
Dedicated
A dedicated hot spare is an unused backup disk that is assigned to a single virtual disk. When a physical disk in the virtual disk fails, the hot spare is activated to replace the failed physical disk without interrupting the system or requiring your intervention.
Part Number Displays the storage part number. Serial Number Displays the storage serial number. Vendor Name Displays the storage vendor name.