
Chapter 11: System Monitoring and Management
drive (RAID) configuration of disk drives cannot afford two failed
disk drives.
♦ A logical drive may include members that reside on different
enclosures or different drive channels. Doing so can help reduce the
chance of downtime if a hardware failure should occur.
♦ With operations such as manual rebuild or capacity expansion using
the “Copy and Replace” methodology, it is crucial to correctly
identify an original member (source drive) and a replacement drive.
11.2.1 Accessing Logical Drive Information
Step 1. To access the Logical Drive Information, single-click its display
icon on the GUI navigation panel or select the command from the
Action command menu. After opening the information window,
select the logical drive with a single mouse-click. A display
window as shown in Figure 11-8 should appear.
Figure 11-8: Opening Logical Drive Information Display
Step 2. As shown above, once a configured array is selected, its members
will be displayed as highlighted drive trays in the Front View
window. The array’s logical partition is displayed on the right.
Each logical configuration of drives is displayed in a different
color. If a selected array includes members on different
enclosures, click the JBOD tab button on top of the enclosure
graphic to locate their positions.
NOTE:
The Logical Drive Messages column only displays messages that are
related to a selected array.
11-9 Logical Drive Information
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