This section describes how to configure power management for the logical drives and RAID controllers
in your storage space. You can configure power management for an individual logical drive or for all
logical drives on a controller.
• To configure power management for a logical drive, see
Setting Power Management Options for a
Logical Drive
on page 66.
• To configure power management for a controller, see
Setting Power Management Options for a
Controller
on page 67.
• To disable power management on a logical drive, see
Disabling Power Management for a Logical
Drive
on page 68.
Note: To see if your controller supports power management, select the controller in
the Enterprise View then, on the Storage Dashboard, click the Properties tab. If the
Key Features section includes 'Intelligent Power Management', the controller supports
the power management features. You can check for power management support on
the Storage Dashboard for controllers, logical drives, and physical drives.
Setting Power Management Options for a Logical Drive
This section describes how to set the power management options for an existing logical drive. You can
also set the power management options when you create a logical drive in the wizard (see
Custom
Configuration
on page 40).
For each logical drive in your storage space, you can a set a timer to reduce the disk drive spin rate
(RPM), turn disk drives off, and verify the health of inactive drives.
Note: We do not recommend enabling power management for logical drives with
shared physical drives; that is, logical drives that include segments of the same physical
drives. Placing logical drives with these characteristics under power management may
limit the power savings benefit in your storage space.
To set the power management options for a logical drive:
1. In the Enterprise View, select a controller, then select a logical drive.
2. On the ribbon, in the Logical Disk group, click Set Properties.
The Set Properties window opens.
3. Click the Power tab.
4. In the Power Settings drop-down list, select
Enabled
.
5. Select a value for each timer from the drop-down lists:
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