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Chapter 5: Management with the CLU
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• Offline – This condition arises as the result of a second physical drive failure.
An Offline logical drive is not accessible but some or all of your data may
remain intact. You must determine the cause of the problem and correct it.
• Transport Ready – After you perform a successful Prepare for Transport
operation, this condition means you can remove the physical drives of this
disk array and move them to another enclosure or different drive slots. After
you relocate the physical drives, the disk array status will show OK.
Setting an Alias for a Logical Drive
To set an alias for a logical drive:
1.
From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. To set an alias for this disk array, highlight Alias and type an alias into the
field.
Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words and
underscore. An alias is optional.
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.
Setting Write Cache Policy
To set write cache policy on a logical drive:
1.
From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. To set write cache policy for this disk array, highlight WritePolicy and press
the spacebar to toggle between WriteBack and WriteThru (write though).
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.
Setting Read Cache Policy
To set read cache policy on a logical drive:
1.
From the Main Menu, highlight Logical Drive Management and press Enter.
2. Highlight the logical drive you want and press Enter.
3. To set read cache policy for this disk array, highlight ReadPolicy and press
the spacebar to toggle though ReadCache , ReadAhead and None .
4. Press Ctrl-A to save your settings.