Managing MDisks and pools
You can use the management GUI or the command line interface to work with your managed disks (MDisks) and storage pools.
- To work with MDisks and pools, select Pools.
- Setting a quorum disk using the CLI
You can set an external managed disk (MDisk) as a quorum disk by using the command-line interface (CLI). - Collecting drive dump files using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to collect dump files from drives. To collect internal log files from MDisks, run the triggerdrivedump command. Then, you can list, delete, or copy the dump files. - Creating MDisks on a system by using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to create MDisks on a system. - Removing MDisks on a system by using the CLI
You can use the command-line interface (CLI) to remove MDisks from a clustered system. - Managing throttles for pools
You can create, modify, and remove throttles for pools by using the management GUI or the command-line interface. - Creating data reduction pools
To use data reduction on the system, you need to create a data reduction pool, create thin-provisioned or compressed volumes, and map these volumes to hosts that support SCSI unmap commands. - Moving volumes to a data reduction pool
The system supports migrating existing volumes to a data reduction pool with volume mirroring. Hosts I/O operations to the volume are not disrupted during migration.
Parent topic: Administering