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  3. Section IV. End user
  4. Add, edit, and move policies
  5. Capacity Chargeback policy types
  6. Drive Types for Capacity Chargeback

Drive Types for Capacity Chargeback

The following table lists the drive types supported for each array vendor.

Table: Drive Types for Capacity Chargeback

Vendor and Array

Drive Type Values

Dell Compellent

FC, SAS, SSD

EMC CLARiiON

Fibre Channel, SATA, SAS, ATA, SATAII, NL SAS, FC SSD, SATA Flash, SAS Flash

EMC Isilon

SATA, SAS, SSD, Unknown

EMC Symmetrix

FC, SATA, EFD, SAS. Select Dynamic - for multiple drive types of Storage Resource Pool (SRP).

HDS

  • 0:FC

  • 1:SATA

  • 2:BD

  • 4:SAS

  • 5:SSd

  • 7:SAS(SED)

  • 8:FMD

  • 9: FMC

  • Unknown

    FMD: Flash Module Drive

    SED: Self-encrypting drives

    SAS: Serial Attached SCSI

    FMC: Flash Module Compression (another name for the FMD DC2 drives)

IBM 3-4K

Fibre Channel, Serial ATA (SATA), SAS

IBM 6K

ENT, NL, FC, SSD, Volume, Unknown

NetApp

FCAL, SATA, SAS, ATA, EATA, LUN, SCSI, XATA, XSAS, FSAS, BSAS, SSD, MSATA, Unknown

NetApp Cluster-Mode

FCAL, SATA, SAS, ATA, EATA, LUN, SCSI, XATA, XSAS, FSAS, BSAS, SSD, MSATA, Unknown

Note:

Beginning with release version 9.2.01P5, EMC CLARiiON drive types include more granular values for Capacity Billing and Usage Policies, as listed in the following table.

Table: Drive Types for Capacity Chargeback

EMC CLARiiON Drive

Former Value

Current Value

FC SSD

SSD

FC SSD

NL SAS

SAS

NL SAS

SAS Flash

SSD

SAS SSD

SATA Flash

SSD

SATA SSD

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