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# Storage Systems screen details

If no resources are listed, you must add a resource. See Add a storage system.

- Overview

- General

- Storage Pools

- Storage System Ports

- Add Storage System

- Add storage pools dialog box

- Edit Storage System

- Edit Credentials

## Overview

#### General

Displays the general properties of a storage system.

#### Utilization panel

The appliance gathers utilization data on various metrics and displays them in the Utilization panel and on the Utilization screen.

For storage systems, the appliance gathers data on the following metrics:

- Total storage capacity

- Allocated storage capacity

- Free storage capacity

| NOTE: The total capacity of the storage system might not add up to the sum of allocated and free capacities of the storage system if there are failed components.

The storage pool status graph indicates the health of the storage pools associated with the storage system.

The number for each status is a hyperlink to the Storage Pools screen filtered to show the associated pools with that status.

## General

#### State

State of the storage system.

#### User name

User name with access to the storage system.

| NOTE: For HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems, a minimum user role of `Edit` is required for all domains of the storage system. The `basic_edit` role is not sufficient.

#### IP / host name

Host name, IPv4 address, or IPv6 address of the storage system.

#### Storage domain

User-specified virtual domain of the storage system. See the HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage system documentation for more information on virtual domains.

#### Model

Model name of the storage system

Example: | `HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200`

#### Firmware

Firmware version installed on the storage system.

#### WWN

World Wide Name (WWN) of the storage system.

#### Serial number

Serial number of the storage system.

#### Used by

- Number of storage pools associated with the storage system. The number is a hyperlink to the Storage Pools screen filtered to show the storage pools associated with the storage system.

- Number of volumes associated with the storage system. The number is a hyperlink to the Volumes screen filtered to show the volumes associated with the storage system.

## Storage Pools

Use the View selector to display this screen.

#### Status icon

Icon indicating the status of the storage pool.

See Status and severity icons for information on status icons.

#### Name

Name of the storage pool.

#### Allocated Capacity (GiB)

Space allocated to volumes in the storage pool.

#### Total Capacity (GiB)

Total space provisioned in the storage pool.

#### Capacity meter

Displays how much of the total capacity (gray) has been allocated (blue).

## Storage System Ports

Use the View selector to display this screen.

#### Status icon

Icon indicating the status of the storage port.

See Status and severity icons for information on status icons.

#### Port

Port number.

#### Label

Label for the port, if any.

#### Protocol

Protocol for the port. Either `FC` for Fibre Channel or `FCoE` for Fibre Channel over Ethernet.

#### Expected SAN/Network

SAN or network to which you want to connect the storage system port.

Best practice: Use the `Auto` setting. Once cabling is complete, the actual SAN will be set and the expected SAN will be set based on the actual SAN. You must do this because unmanaged direct attach networks are not listed in the expected SAN/network menu.

If you do not want the appliance to manage a port, set the expected network to `none`.

#### Actual SAN

SAN or network to which the storage system port is connected.

| NOTE: The menu list displays the configured uplinks.

Actual SAN states

unknown | A cable is connected to the port but the SAN is unknown
none | No cable is connected to the port

#### Port Group

The port group the storage port belongs to, otherwise, the default is `Auto`, which selects a port group automatically.

You can use port groups to specify a set of storage ports to be used when you attach a volume to a server profile

#### Expanded details

WWPN | Port name.
Partner Port | The port(s), if any, that have been set as a partner to the port using 3PAR software (persistent ports).
Failover State | The failover state of the port. Can be `none`, `failing over`, `failed over`, `failed`, `recovering`,`partner port failed over`, or `partner failed`.

## Add Storage System

#### IP address or host name

Host name, IPv4 address, or IPv6 address of the storage system.

Data type: | A maximum of 255 alphanumeric characters, and the special characters hyphen (-), period (.), and underscore (_)
Examples: | `systemname` `systemname.domainname` IPv4: `192.168.1.1` IPv6: `fe80::1:2`

#### User name

User name with access to the storage system.

| NOTE: For HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems, a minimum user role of Edit is required for all domains of the storage system.

#### Password

Password associated with the user name you are using to access the storage system.

#### Connect button

Click to connect to the storage system.

#### General (available after you connect to a storage system)

#### Name

Name of the storage system.

#### Model

Model of the storage system.

#### Serial number

Serial number of the storage system.

#### Storage domain

Select the storage system domain that contains the pool or pools you want to add. A pool is also known as a Common Provisioning Group (CPG).

| NOTE: The appliance discovers only the domains in which pools have been created. Use the storage system software to create storage pools in the domain.

#### Storage Pools (available after you select a storage domain)

#### Add storage pools button

Click to open the Add storage pools dialog box.

#### Name

Name of the storage pool

#### Drive type

Type of drives available in the storage pool. Can be `FC` (Fibre Channel), `NL` (Nearline), or `SSD` (solid-state drive).

#### Free space

Free space available in the storage pool

#### RAID

RAID level of the storage pool, can be `RAID0`, `RAID1`, `RAID5`, or `RAID6`

#### X icon

Click to remove the storage pool from association with the storage system on the appliance

#### Remove all button

Click to remove all storage pools from association with the storage system on the appliance

#### Storage System Ports (available after you select a storage domain)

#### Port

Port number

#### Label

A label to identify the port

#### Protocol

The protocol of the port. Can be `FC` for Fibre Channel or `Ethernet`

#### Expected SAN/Network

The SAN or network to which you want to connect the storage system port.

#### Actual SAN

The network to which the storage system port is connected.

| NOTE: The menu list displays the configured uplinks.

#### Port Group

The port group the storage port belongs to, otherwise, the default is `Auto`, which selects a port group automatically.

You can use port groups to specify a set of storage ports to be used when you attach a volume to a server profile

You can create, select, and deselect port groups from this screen

#### Partner Port

Port number of the partner port. See About HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems.

#### Buttons

See Button functions for information about how buttons operate.

## Add storage pools dialog box

The Add storage pools dialog box enables you to choose from a list of storage pools when adding a storage system. You can also add storage pools from the Storage Pools screen.

#### Name

Name of the storage pool

#### Drive type

The type of drives available in the storage pool: `FC` (Fibre Channel), `NL` (Nearline), or `SSD` (solid-state drive).

#### Free space

Free space available in the storage pool

#### RAID

RAID level of the storage pool: `RAID0`, `RAID1`, `RAID5`, or `RAID6`

#### More information

Button functions

## Edit Storage System

You can only change the Expected SAN/Network and Port Group values.

#### Port

Port number.

#### Label

A label to identify the port

#### Protocol

The protocol of the port. Can be `FC` for Fibre Channel or `FCoE` for Fibre Channel over Ethernet.

#### Expected SAN/Network

The SAN or network to which you want to connect the storage system port.

#### Actual SAN

The network to which the storage system port is connected.

| NOTE: The menu list displays the configured uplinks.

#### Port Group

The port group the storage port belongs to, otherwise, the default is `Auto`, which selects a port group automatically.

You can use port groups to specify a set of storage ports to be used when you attach a volume to a server profile.

You can create, select, and deselect port groups from this screen.

#### Partner Port

Port number of the partner port.

#### More information

Button functions

## Edit Credentials

The credentials of a storage system (IP address or host name, user name, and password) cannot be edited from the appliance; they are edited using the storage system software. When the credentials of a storage system are edited, use this screen to update the appliance so that it can connect to the storage system using these credentials.

#### System IP address or host name

Host name, IPv4 address, or IPv6 address of the storage system.

#### User name

User name with access to the storage system.

| NOTE: For HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems, a minimum user role of Edit is required for all domains of the storage system.

#### Password

Password associated with the user name you are using to access the storage system.

#### More information

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