The Physical Disks perspective displays a list of the physical disks accessible by the Oracle VM Server in the table in the management pane. The following information is available:
Name: The name of the physical disk entry.
Event Severity: The current event severity status for the physical disk.
Size (GiB): The size, in GiB, of the physical disk.
Volume Group: The volume group that the physical disk belongs to.
SAN Server: The SAN server that the physical disk belongs to (if local storage, this is also indicated).
Type: The type of storage that the physical disk is a part of (for example, iSCSI or Fibre Channel).
Storage Plugin: The Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in that is used to access this physical disk.
Description: A configured description for the physical disk.
Alongside each physical disk entry in the table, there is an arrow that allows you to expand the view for each entry. This exposes further information:
Name: The user-specified alias for the physical disk. The name can be changed without changing the name of the physical disk on the storage array.
User Friendly Name: The name of the physical disk on the storage array. The name was specified when the disk was created and cannot be changed.
Status: The status of the physical disk (whether or not the disk is online).
Shareable: Whether or not the physical disk can be shared.
Thin Provision: Whether or not thin provisioning is supported by the physical disk.
Reserved by Server(s): Whether or not the physical disk is unavailable for use by Oracle VM Manager.
Storage Targets: The endpoint provided by the storage server through which the server may direct commands to the physical disk. The storage target provides access to the physical disk.
Server Pool: The server pool that the physical disk belongs to.
Repository: The repository that the physical disk belongs to.
VM(s): Virtual machines using the physical disk.
ID: The UUID for the physical disk.
Page83 ID: The unique identifier for the physical disk.
Access Groups: The access groups that the physical disk belongs to.
Extra Information: Information that is passed to and from the Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in for use internally by the plug-in.
The management functions you can perform on the disk are available as icons in the perspective toolbar. Some management options are only available to SAN server disks that use a non-generic Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in.
Table 3.16 Physical Disks Perspective Toolbar Icon Options
Toolbar Icon Option | Icon | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Request an update of the all the physical disks available to the Oracle VM Server to see if changes have been made. | |
 | Change the name, description and extra information of the physical disk, or make it shareable. | |
 | Stop using the selected physical disk in your Oracle VM environment. Warning If you effectively delete a LUN from a registered storage array, make sure that you delete it in Oracle VM Manager first, before you physically delete it from the storage server. If you do not respect this order of operations, the system goes into an unknown state, which can only be resolved by rebooting the Oracle VM Servers the deleted LUN is connected to. | |
 | Create a thin clone, sparse copy or non-sparse copy of the physical disk on the selected target. | |
 | Delete one or more file systems and contents of the physical disks. | |
 | Request an update of one or more physical disks to see if changes have been made to the size and configuration. | |
 | Display the Events dialog box which contains the job event associated with the physical disk. |