Chapter 5

Disk Management

About this chapter  

This chapter discusses how the filer uses disks, how disks are dually connected to the filer for redundancy, how to add disks to the filer so that Data ONTAP can use them, and how to remove disks from the filer and Data ONTAP.

For instructions about adding or removing disks from a disk shelf physically or determining the location of a disk in a disk shelf, see your disk shelf documentation.

Topics in this chapter  

This chapter discusses the following topics:

• Understanding disks on the filer
• Multipath I/O for Fibre Channel disks
• Storage subsystem management
• Adding disks
• Removing disks
• Ascertaining free disk space
• Disk sanitization
• Disk ownership assignment on an FAS270/FAS270c appliance

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