Hardware Installation
PixelStor 5000 User Manual
Rev. 1, May 2013
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The Disk Group Properties page for a specific Disk Group shows:
Name - The name of the Disk Group
Operational State - A Disk Group may be in one of the following states:
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Active is where the Disk Group is up and running with all member disks with no
faults on any of the disks in the Disk Group.
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Inactive is where the Disk Group has been deactivated and is not running or
unavailable to any host.
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RAID Degraded is where the Disk Group is up and running but is either missing
one or more Disk Group Members or where one or more of the Disk Group
members has been declared faulty. In this state, the Disk Group is usable but
without RAID protection.
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RAID Unhealthy is where the Disk Group is missing two or more disk members.
An Unhealthy Disk Group is not usable.
Total Disks - Shows the total number of disks in the Disk Group
Total Capacity - Shows the Disk Group capacity in Gigabytes
Occupancy - Shows the percentage of the capacity of the Disk Group that has been
allocated to Virtual Disks
Select Primary Controller - Shows the current Primary controller selection or allows you
to change the primary controller selection through the pull down menu. Selecting an
alternative primary controller will not take effect until you click on the Save Changes
Button.
Protection Level - Shows the RAID protection level of the Disk Group
Disk Group Members - Shows the disk drives that are members of the Disk Group
Comments - Shows any comments that were entered from the advance features of the
Create Disk Group page or allows you to enter comments for the specific Disk Group.
Comments will not be associated with the Disk Group until you click on the Save
Changes button.
Buttons
RAID is Building - The RAID is Building button is shown while a RAID is building. This
occurs during the initial creation of a Disk Group or when the RAID is being
reconstructed. A RAID device is reconstructed when a member has been declared faulty
and has been replaced by a global spare drive or by physically replacing the faulty drive.
Deactivate/Activate - Clicking on the Deactivate button will take a Disk Group off line,
making all of the Virtual Disks unavailable to host on the network. For Disk Groups that
have been deactivated, clicking on Active will make the Disk Group and all the Virtual
Disks contained in the Disk Group available to hosts.