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Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel, Monitoring Controllers, Monitoring Disk Drives

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• Virtual disk • Physical drive: SAS and SATA • Hot spare • Enclosure A red circle to the right of an icon indicates that the device has failed. For example, this icon indicates that a disk drive has failed or gone offline: A yellow circle to the right of an icon indicates that a device is running in a degraded state. For example, this icon indicates that a virtual disk is running in a degraded state because a disk drive has failed: Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel The right panel of the Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager window has from one to three tabs, depending on the kind of device selected in the left panel. The Properties tab displays information about the selected device. For example, if a controller icon is selected in the left panel the Properties tab lists information such as the controller name, NVRAM size, and device port count. If a server is selected, the host name, operating system (OS), operating system architecture, IP address, and OS version displays. For more information, see Monitoring Controllers, Monitoring Disk Drives, and Monitoring Virtual Disks. • The Operations tab lists the operations that can be performed on the device that is selected in the left panel. For example, the virtual disk operations include Locate Virtual Disk and Stop Locating Virtual Disk. Some types of devices, such as disk groups, servers, and ports, do not have operations associated with them. For more information, see Maintaining and Managing Storage Configurations. • The Graphical tab can be selected in the right panel if a physical drive or a virtual disk is selected in the left panel. In Graphical View, the device's storage capacity is color coded according to the legend shown on the screen. For example, on a physical drive configured space is blue, available space is white, reserved space is red, and space for the selected virtual disk is green. There is a menu on this panel where you can select a virtual disk for which to display the virtual disk space. For more information, see Monitoring Disk Drives and Monitoring Virtual Disks. Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager Windows and Menus 17

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Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager Windows and Menus
17
•
Virtual disk
•
Physical drive: SAS
and SATA
•
Hot spare
•
Enclosure
A red circle to the right of an icon indicates that the device has failed. For
example, this icon indicates that a disk drive has failed or gone offline:
A yellow circle to the right of an icon indicates that a device is running in a
degraded state. For example, this icon indicates that a virtual disk is running
in a degraded state because a disk drive has failed:
Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel
The right panel of the Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager window has from one
to three tabs, depending on the kind of device selected in the left panel.
The
Properties
tab displays information about the selected device. For
example, if a controller icon is selected in the left panel the Properties tab
lists information such as the controller name, NVRAM size, and device
port count. If a server is selected, the host name, operating system (OS),
operating system architecture, IP address, and OS version displays. For
more information, see
Monitoring Controllers
,
Monitoring Disk Drives
,
and
Monitoring Virtual Disks
.
•
The
Operations
tab lists the operations that can be performed on the
device that is selected in the left panel. For example, the virtual disk
operations include
Locate Virtual Disk
and
Stop Locating Virtual Disk
.
Some types of devices, such as disk groups, servers, and ports, do not have
operations associated with them. For more information, see
Maintaining
and Managing Storage Configurations
.
•
The
Graphical
tab can be selected in the right panel if a physical drive or a
virtual disk is selected in the left panel. In Graphical View, the device’s
storage capacity is color coded according to the legend shown on the
screen. For example, on a physical drive configured space is blue, available
space is white, reserved space is red, and space for the selected virtual disk
is green. There is a menu on this panel where you can select a virtual disk
for which to display the virtual disk space. For more information, see
Monitoring Disk Drives
and
Monitoring Virtual Disks
.