Dell PowerEdge VRTX Enclosure Owner's Manual

The enclosure provides shared storage with single or dual Shared PERC internal and external configurations. The Shared PERC cards support Single Root Input Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) feature and enable the server modules to map to the local storage through the PCIe switches on the enclosure system board. A server module can be mapped to either a single Virtual Disk (VD) or multiple VDs that are located on the shared storage.

For more information about the Shared PERC cards, see the Dell Shared PowerEdge RAID Controller 8 User’s Guide at Dell.com/poweredgemanuals.

You can perform the following tasks related to the enclosure storage:

• View the status of physical disks and storage controllers
• View the properties of controllers, physical disks, virtual disks, and enclosures
• Set up controllers, physical disks, and virtual disks
• Assign virtual adapters
• Troubleshoot controller, physical disks, and virtual disks
• Update storage components