G-Technology G Speed studio, Product Manual

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Configuring G-SPEED Studio R
Viewing Disk Array Information
To view disk array information:
1. Do one of the following actions:
• From the Dashboard window, click the
Disk Array
link.
• From the Storage menu, choose
Disk Array
.
2. Mouse-over the disk array you want, then click the
View
button.
Disk array information includes:
•
Disk Array ID
– DA0, DA1, etc.
•
Alias
– If assigned
•
Operational Status
– OK, Degraded or Offline
•
Media Patrol
– Enabled or disabled in this array
•
PDM
– Enabled or disabled in this array
•
Total Physical Capacity
– Maximum capacity, including used and unused
capacity, of the physical drives
•
Configurable Capacity
– Data capacity of the array
•
Free Capacity
– Unconfigured or unused capacity on the physical drives
•
Max. Contiguous Free Capacity
– The largest single chunk of unused capacity
on the physical drives
•
Number of Physical Drives
– The number of physical drives in this array
•
Number of Logical Drives
– The number of logical drives in this array
•
Number of Dedicated Spares
– The number of spare drives dedicated to this array
•
Available RAID Levels
– RAID levels that this disk array can support
Creating a Disk Array Manually
This feature only creates a disk array. You can also use the Wizard to create a disk array
with logical and spare drives concurrently.