External parity groups are parity groups in a storage system that are connected to a storage system that has been onboarded in Ops Center Administrator. You can display a list of external parity groups in a storage system.
On the detail window for a storage system, click the External Parity Groups tile. If the storage system has no external parity groups, the tile does not display.
Note: External parity groups are not available for compression. If external parity groups were used to create a pool, you can use their capacity to create volumes in Ops Center Administrator.
Use the filters to view status of the external parity groups. Click a filter to apply it, then click it again to remove it.
- EXTERNAL STORAGE SYSTEM
- The ID of the external storage system.
- EXTERNAL VENDOR
- The external storage system vendor.
- EXTERNAL MODEL
- The external storage system model.
- STATUS
- The parity group status can be one of the following:
- IN_USE: The external parity group is being used by a storage pool.
- AVAILABLE: The external parity group is not being used for any storage pools. It is available for pool creation and expansion.
- UNITIALIZED: The external parity group either has no volumes, at least one of the pool volumes is in Blocked status, or one or more partitions is uninitialized and has a size greater than 16,777,216 blocks.
- FORMATTING: The volumes in the external parity groups are being formatted.
- UNSUPPORTED_ATTACHED: At least one of volumes has a path to a storage port or volumes are used for multiple pools.
- UNSUPPORTED_INACCESSIBLE_RESOURCE_GROUP: The external parity group, and at least one of its pool volumes are in different resource groups and the user does not have access to one of the resource groups when using another configuration tool.
- TOTAL
- The total capacity of the storage system in GiB.
- EXTERNAL PATHS
- The path of the volume in the external storage system.