The Disk Storage icon is displayed in the Resources pane when you select a Hardware or “Satellite” System in the Hardware pane. You can double-click this icon to display the Disk Storage settings. This dialog box lists all of the available disks or partitions on the selected Hardware System.

Each Hardware System has a Disk Storage resource, comprising two parts:

A storage set is a collection of one or more disks or shared volumes that are kept synchronized. When the Asanti System writes a file to a storage set, the file is copied to all disks or volumes which belong to that set. This provides system redundancy: If any disk or volume in a set fails, the Asanti System notifies you and disables the failed disk/volume. This disk/volume will not be used again until you enable it. When you do this, the disk is again synchronized with the other disks/volumes in the set. Whenever Asanti needs a file, it searches through every enabled disk in the set until one returns the required file. Normally, the first disk will return the file, so there is very little impact on performance.

If you add a disk or volume to a storage set, it is immediately synchronized with the other disks/volumes in the set.

Each storage set you define can handle only one of the following data types:

You can define multiple storage sets to handle the same type of data. This increases the total disk capacity, and allows Asanti to alternately write data to each of the storage sets in turn (for example, writing C, M, Y, K separations to different sets).

The Disk Storage dialog box comprises two tabs which allow you to configure storage sets and monitor disk usage.

The name of the disk or volume which contains the storage set.

A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store system data only.

A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store temporary or scratch data only.

A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store PDF data only.

A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store raster data only.

Click this button to create a new Storage Set.

Click this button to access the Storage Set Editor, where you can view or modify the setup of the selected storage set.

Click this button to delete the selected Storage Set. Note that you cannot delete a Storage Set unless there is an alternative Storage Set available to take over the storage of each type of data held in the Storage Set.

Lists the disks or shared volumes you are using.

Displays the formatted capacity of the disk.

A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store system data.

A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store temporary or scratch data.

A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store PDF data.

A check mark in this column indicates that the corresponding disk or volume is used to store raster data.

Indicates on which disk the database is installed.

Indicates the amount of disk space (capacity) used by Asanti. For each disk, a bar displays the used amount in a solid color. For disks that are used for other purposes, the color is slightly faded out.

The bar of the largest disk fills the column width. The other bars are scaled proportionally.

The color of the bar changes when the used amount exceeds a certain limit:

The Free column shows the free disk capacity in absolute numbers and percentages.

Indicates the status of the disk or shared volume.

Click this button to access the Watermarks Editor, where you can specify free disk space warning and critical levels.

Select a Disk or Shared Volume, and click the Enable button to allow this disk or volume to be used by Asanti.