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In the Member Drives tab (as shown in Figure 7-77), you find all of the member drives of
this MDisk. Also, all actions that are described in 7.1.2, “Actions on internal drives” on
page 299 can be performed on the drives that are listed here.
Figure 7-77 MDisk properties member
7.4 Working with storage pools
Storage pools act as a container for MDisks and provision the capacity to volumes. IBM
Storwize V5000 organizes storage in storage pools to ease storage management and make it
more efficient. Storage pools and MDisks are managed via the MDisks by Pools window. You
can access the MDisks by Pools window by clic