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Configuring and Managing RAID
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Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt)
The Physical Disk Management screen ( PD Mgmt ) displays physical disk
information and action menus. The screen displays physical disk IDs,
vendor names, disk size, type, state, and disk group (DG). You can sort the list
of physical disks based on the headings. You can perform several actions on
the physical disks, including the following:
• Rebuilding physical disks
• Performing the Replace Member operation
• Setting the LED to blink
• Making a disk online or offline (unaffiliated with a disk group)
• Creating global hot spares
• Removing dedicated hot spares or global hot spares
The PD Mgmt screen also displays several physical disk properties as shown
in Table 6-5.
Table 6-5. Information on the Physical Disk Management Screen
Information Displayed in Left Panel Supported Information Displayed in
Right Panel
Physical Disk:
• Disk ID
• Protocol type
• Capacity (GB)
• Physical Disk State
• Disk Group
• Vendor
• Security Property of Physical Disk
• Encryption Capable
• Product ID
• Firmware Revision
• Disk Write Cache
• S.M.A.R.T state
• Physical Disk operation
• Max Device Link Rate
• Negotiated Link Rate
• Dell Certified Disk
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