VTrak 15110 User Manual
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Physical Drive Information
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Slot No
– This is the Controller channel ID number to which this physical
drive is attached. If you have a drive on a channel but it does not appear in
WebPAM, there is a bad connection.
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Physical Drive Model
– The drive manufacturer's identification.
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Physical Drive Capacity
– The effective data storage capacity in gigabytes.
This is total capacity, not available capacity.
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Physical Drive Status
– The functional status of an individual disk drive.
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Functional means normal.
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Disk is being rebuilt means this drive is the Target Drive of the rebuild
operation that is in progress.
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Disk Offline means this drive is not available for use due to an error. See
Rebuild Logical Drive.
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Status
– Refers to assignable status of an individual disk drive.
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Free means available for use in a Disk Array.
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Assigned means that it currently belongs to the Disk Array shown.
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Spare means it has been designated as a Hot Spare.
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Error means not available due to a problem with this physical drive.
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S.M.A.R.T. Status
– This refers to Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting
Technology, a form of predictive failure analysis that examines disk drive
behavior for indications of a coming failure.
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Healthy means there are no indications of trouble.
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Alert means there have been indications that the disk drive could fail
soon. If you see an alert, back up your data, then remove and test the
disk drive.
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Disabled means the SMART has been disabled or is not a feature of this
disk drive. You must enable SMART function for each Logical Drive.
To see more information about a specific disk drive, click on its
icon.
Physical Drive
The Physical Drive–Information tab gives a description and reports the status of
the hard disk drives (physical drives) in the enclosure. To access a physical drive:
1.
Click the Subsystem
icon.
2.
Click on the VTrak
icon.
3.
Click on the Enclosures
icon.
4.
Click on the Enclosure
icon.
