Overview of managing drives

Virtual Storage Platform One SDS Block Storage Administrator Guide

Version
1.17.x
Audience
anonymous
Part Number
MK-24VSP1SDS002-04

For the drives in a storage node, you can perform the following operations including obtaining information about the drives and changing the configuration of the drives.

Item

Description

Obtaining information about drives

You can obtain information about drives by obtaining a list of drive information or by specifying a specific drive ID.

Adding drives

You can add drives to increase the capacity of storage pools. See Adding drives.

Removing drives

You can remove failed drives.

Replacing drives

You can replace failed drives with other drives.

Reincorporating drives You can reuse and recover blocked drives.
Note:

(Bare metal) To update the firmware on drives, follow the instructions in the documents of your server vendors.