Intel MFSYS25 User Guide - Page 92

You may see one of the following health status descriptions as you move the mouse cursor over the storage pool icon or the status health icon on the General Tab: • Incomplete: The Storage Pool is missing one or more physical disk drives. This can occur if the drives in a Storage Pool are transported to another system, but not all the drives are inserted. You can insert the missing drives, or choose to accept the incomplete status when prompted. • Media Patrol Running: The storage pool is operational and the media patrol background task is running (this is a background task that looks for defects). • Rebuilding: The storage pool is rebuilding as a background task. • Migrating: The storage pool has a background task that is expanding the storage pool or one of the virtual drives. • Transitioning: The storage pool is running a background task that is rebuilding the storage pool to another drive using a hot spare. • Predictive Data Migration Running: An error detection background task is running. • Degraded: One or more physical disk drives in the storage pool are offline and the storage pool is operating in a degraded mode. • Offline: All the physical disk drives are offline. • Transport Ready: All the physical disk drives are prepared for transport and can now be removed from the system. Storage Pool Actions The Storage Pool Actions displayed to the right of the system graphic enable an IT administrator to modify existing storage pools, remotely identify drives contained in a storage pool and create virtual drives. For a complete list of actions, refer to the following table. Table 13. Storage Pool Actions Menu Global Action Menu Item Description Create Storage Pool Designates one or more drives as a storage pool. Global storage actions are available at all times on the storage screen. Selected Storage Pool Action Menu Items Description Rename Delete Identify Create Virtual Drive Renames an existing storage pool. A dialog box will be displayed prompting the user for the new storage pool name. Deletes an existing storage pool. This action will delete all virtual drives contained in the selected storage pool and release the drives for future storage pool configuration. ALL DATA WILL BE LOST. Illuminates the hard drive ID LED, which enables easy onsite identification of the drives included in the selected storage pool. A virtual drive is assigned a name, RAID level, size and server. Once a virtual drive is created, an operating system can be installed. 76 Intel® Modular Server System User Guide