User`s guide

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Creating and Managing Arrays and Partitions
Viewing Array and Disk Drive Status Information
You can view array status and disk drive status at any time.
Viewing Array Status
You can view the following information for any array:
■ State—Online, Offline, Critical, or Fault-tolerant.
■ Serial number—Unique number the controller assigns to each
array.
■ Name—Name you gave to the array.
■ RAID level—Array type (0, 3, 4, 5, 50, volume, or mirrored). The
term mirrored is used for both RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays.
■ Number of drives—Number of disk drives in the array when
fault-tolerant. For example, if you create a three-drive RAID 5
array and lose one disk drive, the number will still display 3.
■ Number of drives per subarray—(RAID 50 only) Number of
disk drives in each underlying RAID 5 array.
■ Number of spare drives—Number of spare disk drives
dedicated to this array.
■ Size—Size of the entire array (expressed in MB or GB for arrays
larger than 10 GB).
■ Chunk size—Array’s chunk size.
■ Date created—Date the array was created.
■ Utility—Utility running (None, Verify, Reconstruct, Expand, or
Initialize).
■ Number of partitions—Number of partitions created on the
array.
■ Free partition total—Amount of free space (no partition) on the
array.