6.8.3.2 Edit Physical Disk

It is possible to edit the configuration for a physical disk either available on a SAN server or as local or shared storage. The steps and options to do so are described below.

To edit Physical Disk configuration:

  1. On the Storage tab, expand the SAN Servers folder in the navigation tree, select a SAN server item contained within the folder. Select the Physical Disks option in the Perspective drop-down list. Select the physical disk that you wish to edit in the table presented in the management pane.

    To edit the physical disk configuration for a physical disk used by a particular server, on the Servers and VMs tab, expand the Server Pools or Unassigned Servers folder, to select a particular server in the navigation tree. Select the Physical Disks option in the Perspective drop-down list. Select the physical disk that you wish to edit in the table presented in the management pane.

  2. Click on the Edit Physical Disk icon Edit Physical Disk icon in the toolbar.

  3. A dialog opens to allow you to reconfigure the Physical Disk. The dialog has the following options:

    • ID: A non-editable field containing the physical disk's UUID as it is stored within Oracle VM Manager.

    • Name: A field to change the name of the physical disk within Oracle VM Manager.

    • Current Size(GiB): A non-editable field containing the physical disk's current size, in GiB.

    • New Size(GiB): A field to change the size, in GiB, of the physical disk. The size of the physical disk can only be increased in size.

    • Description: A text field allowing a description of the physical disk.

    • Shareable: A check box that determines whether or not the disk can be shared.

    • Thin Provision: A non-editable field describing whether or not thin provisioning is supported by the disk.

  4. When you have finished editing the physical disk, click OK to save the changes, or Cancel to exit out of the dialog without saving any changes.