Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Navigation Pane

• Storage Center: Shows a summary of current and historical storage usage on the selected Storage Center.
• Volumes: Allows you to create and manage volumes and volume folders on the selected Storage Center, as well as create a local recovery from a volume snapshot. You can also create storage containers, which are used with virtual volumes.
• Servers: Allows you to create and manage physical and virtual servers, server clusters, and server folders on the selected Storage Center.
• Remote Storage Centers: Allows you to create and view iSCSI connections to remote Storage Centers for which you have access.
• Disks: Allows you to view and manage disks and disk folders on the selected Storage Center.
• Portable Volumes: Allows you to view and manage portable volumes, which are used to transport initial replication data to remote Storage Centers. This option is useful when transferring the initial replication data over the network would be too slow.
  NOTE:Portable Volumes are not supported in Storage Center version 7.3 and later.
• Storage Types: Allows you to view the Storage Types prepared on the selected Storage Center.
• Snapshot Profiles: Allows you to view, modify, and create Snapshot Profiles for the selected Storage Center, and apply Snapshot Profiles to one or more volumes.
• Storage Profiles: Allows you to view and create Storage profiles defined on the selected Storage Center. This node appears only if Allow Storage Profile Selection is enabled in the Storage Center user preferences.
• QoS Profiles: Allows you to define Quality of Service Profiles for volumes or groups of volumes on the selected Storage Center. This node appears only if Allow QoS Profile Selection is enabled in the Storage Center user preferences.

Right Pane

The right pane shows information and configuration options for the node or object selected in the navigation pane. The information and configuration options displayed for each node is described in the online help.