Viewing information about enclosures

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View information about enclosures. Enclosures are the metal structures in which various storage components are mounted, including control units, nodes, disks and drives, and power supplies.

Information about enclosures is available for storage systems, including systems that run IBM Storage Virtualize.

To view information about enclosures and their related resources, complete any of the following tasks:
Table 1. Viewing information about enclosures
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View information about the enclosures that are associated with a storage system.

Depending on the type of storage system, the following information about an enclosure is shown:
  • Status
  • Type of enclosure: Control, Expansion, or Storage
  • Machine Type model (MTM)
  • Physical location
  • I/O Group
  • The number of disks, drives, and slots that it contains
  • The number of nodes that it contains
  • The number of power supplies and canisters that it contains
  • The status of its power supplies (PSUs) and canisters
  1. In the menu bar, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system and select View Details.
  3. Under Internal Resources, click Enclosures.

View the disks in an enclosure.
  1. In the menu bar, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system and select View Details.
  3. Under Internal Resources, click Enclosures.
  4. In the Disks column, click the number to view more information about each of the disks.

View the enclosure that a disk or drive is in.
  1. In the menu bar, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system and select View Details.
  3. Under Internal Resources, click Disks or Drives.
  4. In the Enclosure column, view the name of the enclosure.
  5. (Optional) To view information about the enclosure, click its name.

View the nodes in an enclosure.
  1. In the menu bar, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system and select View Details.
  3. Under Internal Resources, click Enclosures.
  4. In the Nodes column, click the number to view more information about each of the nodes.

View the enclosure that a node is in.
  1. In the menu bar, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system and select View Details.
  3. Under Internal Resources, click Nodes.
  4. In the Enclosure column, view the name of the enclosure.
  5. (Optional) To view information about the enclosure, click its name.

View the statuses of power supplies (PSUs) in an enclosure.
  1. In the menu bar, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system and select View Details.
  3. Under Internal Resources, click Enclosures.
  4. Right-click an enclosure and select View Properties.
  5. View the Power Supply Status field.

View the statuses of canisters in an enclosure.
  1. In the menu bar, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system and select View Details.
  3. Under Internal Resources, click Enclosures.
  4. Right-click an enclosure and select View Properties.
  5. View the Canister Status field.

Add enclosures to general groups.

Adding storage systems and their associated enclosures to general groups can be helpful when you want to receive alert notifications about changes to a group of logically related storage systems.
  1. In the menu bar, go to Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click a storage system and select View Details.
  3. Under Internal Resources, click Enclosures.
  4. Right-click an enclosure and select Add to General Group.
  5. Add the enclosure to an existing group or create a new group and click Save.