The Physical Disks perspective lists the different physical disks configured in your environment and running on a SAN storage array. The following columns are displayed in the management pane:
Name: The name that has been configured for the physical disk
Event Severity: The event level severity 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.
Server: The servers that have access to the physical disk.
Status: The status of the physical disk (whether or not the disk is online).
Shareable: Whether the physical disk is shareable or not.
Description: A description entered for the physical disk when it was created or edited.
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.
SAN Server: The SAN server that the physical disk belongs to.
Thin Provision: Whether or not thin provisioning is supported by the physical disk.
Type: The type of storage that the physical disk is a part of (for example, iSCSI or Fibre Channel).
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. The UUID is a universally unique identifier that Oracle VM Manager assigns to the physical disk.
Page83 ID: The unique SCSI 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 Storage Connect plug-in.
Table 6.27 Physical Disks Perspective Toolbar Icon Options
Toolbar Icon Option | Icon | Description |
|---|---|---|
 | Displays the Create Physical Disk dialog box. Use this option to create a new physical disk in the selected volume group of the storage array of your choice. This option is not supported for storage arrays using a generic Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in. | |
 | Displays the Edit Physical Disk dialog box. Use this option to change the name, size, provisioning and share ability of the selected physical disk. | |
 | Displays the Delete Confirmation dialog box. Use this option to delete the selected physical disk. | |
 | Displays the Clone Physical Disk dialog box. Use this option to clone a physical disk to another physical disk or to a disk image on a file server. | |
 | Refreshes the physical disks on a storage array. Use this option to rescan the physical disks after making changes to the configuration of a storage array. This updates the storage information known to Oracle VM Manager. | |
 | Displays the Servers using Physical Disk dialog box. Use this option to view which servers are using a selected physical disk. | |
 | Display the Events dialog box which contains the job event associated with the selected physical disks. |