Dell Storage Expansion Guide
Summary
This Dell PowerVault Data Protection Solution Storage Expansion Guide provides instructions for expanding disk storage capacity in data protection systems. The manual covers planning additional storage, estimating requirements, RAID adapter considerations, disk size selection, hot spare benefits, and procedures for installing internal drives and external storage enclosures. It also includes Dell OpenManage Server Administrator installation guidance. Target users are system administrators and storage managers responsible for scaling Dell PowerVault data protection infrastructure.
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Dell™ Power Vault™ Data Protection Solution Storage Expansion Guide
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Dell™ Power Vault™ Data Protection Solution Storage Expansion Guide
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Notes, Notices, and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of dat...
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Contents Introduction Expanding Disk Storage Planning Additional Disk Storage Estimating Additional Storage Requirements RAID Adapter Considerations Disk Size Selection and Considerations Benefits of ...
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Using Tape Drives and Libraries with DPM Supported Tape Drives and Libraries Installing Tape Drives and Tape Libraries Using DPM with Tape Drives and Libraries Other Documents and Resources Microsoft ...
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Introduction Additional storage is needed when the backup requirements of your IT environment grow beyond the storage capacity of your Dell™ Power Vault™ Data Protection Solution. The storage is neede...
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Data Protection Solution with six configured internal disks. The DP500 is protecting the organization’s Exchange Server. The examples illustrate how the system administrator: Expands the DPM storage p...
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Expanding Disk Storage This section discusses how to: Plan for storage expansion Install the additional storage hardware on your system Make the additional storage space available to DPM Planning Addi...
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The total storage space in use for these two servers is 350GB. The system administrator must factor in an estimated storage space growth of 10 percent over the next four years resulting in approximate...
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RAID Adapter Considerations Power Vault Data Protection Solutions include an internal Dell PERC-series RAID adapter that manages internal disk drives. Additional internal disk drives are managed by th...
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NOTE: A maximum of eight physical disks within each RAID 5 disk group is recommended. NOTE: All disk drives added to a disk group should be the same size. When combining drives of dissimilar size for ...
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Installing Dell Open Manage™ Server Administrator Dell Open Manage™ Server Administrator (OMSA) must be installed on the DPM server to provide the following benefits: Monitors the state of the system ...
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Expanding Disk Storage
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Adding Physical Disks This section describes the steps involved in adding physical storage to your Power Vault Data Protection Solution. It covers installing both the internal drives and the external ...
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Installing Drives in the Storage Enclosure If you need to add drives to an existing storage enclosure, refer to the "Removing and Installing Drives" section of the storage enclosure’s Hardwa...
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Configuring Virtual Disks for DPM For DPM to use additional hard disks, the disk drives must be configured into one or more RAID 5 virtual disks. Creation of the RAID virtual disks is accomplished usi...
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Figure 4-1. OMSA Virtual Disk Wizard Storage management 2 Go to Create Virtual Disk Wizard option Go to the storage management section of the OMSA virtual disk wizard. Click Go to Create Virtual Disk ...
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Figure 4-2. Virtual Disk Attributes RAID type Virtual disk name Virtual disk size Select the RAID-5 option. Enter the name of the virtual disk. Enter the size of the virtual disk (1000 = 1TB). Click C...
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Figure 4-3. Virtual Disk Summary When the summary page appears, click Finish. Configuring Virtual Disks for DPM
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Figure 4-4. Virtual Disk Created In Figure 4-4 above, the new virtual disk you added (Virtual Disk 2) is shown as ready. Adding Available/Free Disks to DPM Storage Pool To use additional virtual disks...
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Example: Adding Virtual Disks to DPM’s Storage Pool The steps below shows how a systems administrator would add virtual disks to DPM’s storage pool. Figure 4-5. DPM Disk Management Screen Management o...
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Figure 4-6. DPM Storage Pool Disk Selection In the Add Disks to Storage Pool window, select the disks you want to add. Click Add. Figure 4-7. Completing DPM Storage Pool Disk Selection Click OK. Confi...
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Figure 4-8. New Disk in DPM Storage Pool The new disk now appears as part of the storage pool. Configuring Virtual Disks for DPM
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Using Tape Drives and Libraries with DPM The Power Vault Data Protection Solution supports disk-to-tape backup of the protected systems and disk-to-disk-to-tape archival for long-term protection. Refe...
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Using Tape Drives and Libraries with DPM
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Other Documents and Resources Refer to the Power Vault Data Protection Solution Quick Reference Guide available at support.dell.com to locate the following documents and resources. Microsoft Informati...
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Other Documents and Resources
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Index adding available/free disks, OMSA, Open Manage Server Administrator, disk storage, DPM, physical disks, External Storage Enclosure, installing, RAID adapter, RAID adapter, Installing for externa...
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Index
Manual Details
| Brand | Dell |
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| Pages | 28 |
| File Size | 664.18 KB |
| Published | June 29, 2026 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
When is additional storage needed for the PowerVault Solution?
Additional storage is required when backup needs exceed the current storage capacity of your Dell PowerVault Data Protection Solution.
What types of data protection can DPM provide?
DPM provides continuous disk-to-disk backup plus the ability to offer disk-to-tape and long-term tape archival of protected data.
How do I maintain attached tape libraries?
Use the 'Managing Tape Libraries' section of the DPM 2007 Operations Guide for routine maintenance tasks on attached devices.
What should I check before adding storage or tape devices?
Review the Dell PowerVault Data Protection Solutions Information Update before planning or deploying additional storage or tape devices.