• PD column description:
Slot
The position of hard drives. The number of slot begins from left to right at the
front side. The button next to the number of slot is
“More Information”
. It shows
the details of the hard drive.
WWN
W
orld
W
ide
N
ame.
Size (GB)
Capacity of hard drive.
VG Name
Related volume group name.
Status
The status of hard drive.
“GOOD”
→ the hard drive is good.
“DEFECT”
→ the hard drive has the bad blocks.
“FAIL”
→ the hard drive cannot work in the respective volume.
Status 1
“RD”
→
R
AID
D
isk. This hard drive has been set to RAID.
“FR”
→
FR
ee disk. This hard drive is free for use.
“DS”
→
D
edicated
S
pare. This hard drive has been set to the dedicated spare of
the VG.
“GS”
→
G
lobal
S
pare. This hard drive has been set to a global spare of all VGs.
“RS”
→
R
e
S
erve. The hard drive contains the VG information but cannot be used.
It may be caused by an uncompleted VG set, or hot-plug of this disk in the
running time. In order to protect the data in the disk, the status changes to
reserve. It can be reused after setting it to “FR” manually.
Status 2
“R”
→
Rebuild. The hard drive is doing rebuilding.
“M”
→
Migration. The hard drive is doing migration.
Speed
3.0G
→ From SATA ATAPI standard, if the disk can support ATAPI IDENTIFY
PACKET DEVICE command, and the speed can achieve Serial ATA Gen-2
signaling speed (3.0Gbps).
1.5G
→ From SATA ATAPI standard, if the disk can support ATAPI IDENTIFY
PACKET DEVICE command, and the speed can achieve Serial ATA Gen-1
signaling speed (1.5Gbps).
Unknown
→ The disk doesn’t support above command, so the speed is defined as
unknown.
• PD operations description:
Free disks
Make the selected hard drive to be free for use.
Global spares
Set the selected hard drive(s) to global spare of all VGs.
Dedicated spares
Set hard drive(s) to dedicated spare of selected VGs.
In this page, Sans Digital SAS RAID also provides HDD auto spindown down to save power. The
default setting is disabled. User can set up in physical disk page, too.
Figure 3.5.1.2
Advanced operation
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