The inventory windows display details about the storage system resources. These resources include storage systems, servers, ports, pools, volumes, parity groups, external parity groups (if the storage system has external storage), host groups, NVM subsystems, and replication groups.
The maximum number of items that can be displayed in each inventory is 100,000. When the maximum inventory limit is exceeded, you can use the search, filter, and sort functions to display items. Columns that display multiple values in a cell cannot use the sort function. If you use the sort function for these columns, the result of the sort function might be unexpected.
You can complete common tasks from the inventory windows, such as the following:
- You can select one or more resources and delete
them.
When you delete a storage system, you disassociate it from the management software. When you delete a pool or volume, the resource is removed from the storage system.
- You can delete the parity group to reconfigure the storage system with some other RAID configuration or simply decommission the array.
When you delete a parity group, it is removed from the storage system and the disks used to create the parity group are no longer in use. If the parity group is in use by a pool, the parity group deletion fails.
- You can select one or more of the same type of resources and update the properties. The properties that you can update depend on the type of resource.
- You can click a specific resource to see more details in the resource detail window.
- When you delete a block pool, the parity groups used by the pool are no longer in In Use status. The pool volumes on these parity groups are formatted and the parity group will eventually be in Available status.
- When you delete a volume, the pool subscription goes down. Volume deletion fails if the volume participates in data protection or is attached to a server.
- When you delete a server, the server is disassociated from the management software. You can no longer provision volumes to the server (or the WWNs). If volumes are still attached to the server, server deletion fails.