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Figure 83 Controller Details dialog box 3. (Optional) Manage the disk drives by right-clicking a drive icon to open a shortcut menu. The shortcut menu may contain the following items (not all menu items are available for every disk drive): • Set Drive as Hot Spare-Click this to designate the selected drive as a standby drive in case another drive fails. (Figure 84 shows an example.) • Remove Drive as Hot Spare-Click this to return the selected drive to the pool of drives available for logical disk creation. • Blink Drive (MSA storage only)-Click this to begin blinking an LED indicator on the drive so that you can identify it. (Figure 84 shows an example.) • Stop Drive Blinking (MSA storage only)-Click this to stop blinking the LED indicator that you have previously set to blink. • Set Drive Status-Click this to open the Set Drive Status dialog box (Figure 85) and select a status (for example, available, offline, not ready, or failed). • Drive Details-Click this to open the Drive Details dialog box (Figure 86) and view details of the selected disk drive, including its name, status, identifier, health, bus, slot, and size. Additional details include the storage pool name, RAID type, and a list of its logical disks. Flashing red light indicates drive set to blinking Orange bar indicates drive set as hot spare Figure 84 Drive blinking and drive set as hot spare examples 116 Managing storage subsystems

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Managing storage subsystems
Figure 83
Controller Details dialog box
3.
(Optional) Manage the disk drives by right-clicking a drive icon to open a shortcut menu. The shortcut
menu may contain the following items (not all menu items are available for every disk drive):
•
Set Drive as Hot Spare
—Click this to designate the selected drive as a standby drive in case another
drive fails. (
Figure 84
shows an example.)
•
Remove Drive as Hot Spare
—Click this to return the selected drive to the pool of drives available for
logical disk creation.
•
Blink Drive
(MSA storage only)—Click this to begin blinking an LED indicator on the drive so that
you can identify it. (
Figure 84
shows an example.)
•
Stop Drive Blinking
(MSA storage only)—Click this to stop blinking the LED indicator that you have
previously set to blink.
•
Set Drive Status
—Click this to open the Set Drive Status dialog box (
Figure 85
) and select a status
(for example, available, offline, not ready, or failed).
•
Drive Details
—Click this to open the Drive Details dialog box (
Figure 86
) and view details of the
selected disk drive, including its name, status, identifier, health, bus, slot, and size. Additional
details include the storage pool name, RAID type, and a list of its logical disks.
Figure 84
Drive blinking and drive set as hot spare examples
Flashing red light indicates drive set to blinking
Orange bar indicates drive set as hot spare