Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide

Understanding the Storage Page and Options

To open the Storage page, click Dashboard > Storage. This page displays system-related storage information in the following panes:

Storage Summary:
- Number of Containers
- Number of Containers Replicated
- Total Number of Files in All Containers
- Compression Level
Capacity:
- Used and free system physical capacity in both percentages and Gibibytes (GiB) or Tebibytes (TiB)
Storage Savings:
- Total savings (deduplication and compression) graphed in percentages and based on time in minutes; you can display the statistics in 1–hour (1h), 1–day (1d), 5–day (5d), 1–month (1m), and 1–year (1y); 1–hour is the default.
Throughput:
- Read and write rates graphed in Mebibytes per second (MiB/s) and based on time in minutes; you can display the statistics in 1–hour (1h), 1–day (1d), 5–days (5d), 1–month (1m), and 1–year (1y); 1–hour is the default.
Physical Storage:
- Type: internal or external storage (external is the expansion shelf enclosure)
- Raw Size (storage capacity listed in Gigabytes or Terabytes)
- % Used (represents the percent of capacity used)
- Service Tag (tag is a unique 7–digit Dell ID)
- Configured (status is listed as yes, no, add, or detect)
- State (storage status is ready, reading, initializing, rebuilding, or not detected)

NOTE: To refresh the values listed in Storage Savings and Throughput , click . To refresh an expansion shelf enclosure, click Detect under the Configured column in the Physical Storage summary table (the Enclosure Detect dialog is displayed with this message: If the enclosure is undetected, please wait five minutes and try again. If the enclosure still remains undetected after an attempt, keep the enclosure powered On and reboot the appliance ).

For more information about DR Series system container operations, see Managing Container Operations.