View disk properties


View disk properties
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Right-click a disk and select Properties from the context menu. The categories for the properties of a disk differ, depending on whether the disk is basic or dynamic and whether it is directed or part of an array.

The screen that follows shows an example of a Properties window for a dynamic disk.

Figure: Disk Properties

The categories in the sample screen are described in the table that follows.

Table: Disk Properties Categories

Category

Description

Internal Name

The name of the hard disk is shown at the top of the window.

Type

Fields are Basic and Dynamic.

Style

Refers to a partition style. The two categories are Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table (GPT).

Status

Fields are Imported and Deported.

Capacity

Size in Sectors, KB, MB, GB, TB.

Unallocated space

Amount of free space that is available to create a partition or volume.

Thin Type

Indicates the type of thin provisioned disk, Thin, or Thin Reclaim.

Note:

For thin provisioned disks only.

Provisioned size

Current amount of storage allocated to the disk that supports thin provisioning.

Note:

For Thin Reclaim provisioned disks only. Not all disks that are enabled for thin provisioning provide the provisioned size value.

Allocation unit size

Minimum amount of storage that is added to a thin provisioned disk to meet current storage requirements.

Note:

For Thin Reclaim provisioned disks only.

Device type

The Device type category includes SCSI, Fibre, and some other less commonly used types. If a controller card is involved, gives port, channel, target, and LUN information.

Hardware vendor

Vendor information from the disk itself.

Adapter name

Gives information on the host bus adapter.

Spare

Indicates whether the disk is a preferred hot relocation target.

Reserved

Indicates whether the disk is reserved - that is, excluded from use in automatic selection operations.

Hot use

Indicates whether the disk can be used to receive volumes from the hot relocation procedure.

Write cache enabled

Indicates whether the write cache is enabled.

SCSI-3 Reserved

Indicates whether the disk is enabled for SCSI-3 reservations.

Track alignment enabled

Indicates whether the disk is enabled for track alignment.

Track size

Indicates the size of a track on the disk.

Comment

User-defined comment.

SiteName

If disk is site tagged to a host, then the name of the site is displayed to which it is added.

Note:

Dynamic disks belonging to a Microsoft Disk Management disk group do not support disk comments.

You can also view disk characteristics through the Disk View in the GUI and through the GUI's right-pane view.

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