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Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Administrator's Guide

Linear storage

The compact view on the dashboard shows object counts for volumes, disks, and disk groups in the top section. The bottom section provides a spacemeter with a capacity graph for disk usage and a capacity graph for volume usage. Each capacity graph uses a segmented horizontal bar.

  • Disk usage is labeled with text and coded as Used (green), Unusable (amber), or Available (gray).
  • Volume usage is labeled with text and coded as Allocated (green), Unallocated (gray), or Unavailable (two-tone gray diagonally slanted stripes).
  • Spares are shown only if the number is non-zero.
NOTE The space available for volume allocation equals the size of the disk-group(s) minus overhead. Overhead includes spares, RAID overhead, and unusable or unused disks. Relative to the two capacity graphs, the text label for Disk Usage (Used) matches the text label for Volume Usage (Total Size).

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