Users Guide

Information Description
• Stripe Size—displays the stripe size, which is the amount of space that each
stripe consumes on a single disk.
• Bus Protocol—displays the technology that the physical disks in the virtual drive
are using. The possible values are:
• SCSI
• SAS
• SATA
• Default Read Policy—displays the default read policy that is supported by the
controller. The options include:
• Read-Ahead
• No-Read-Ahead
• Adaptive Read-Ahead
• Read Cache Enabled
• Read Cache Disabled
• Default Write Policy—displays the default write policy that is supported by the
controller. The options include:
• Write-Back
• Force Write Back
• Write Back Enabled
• Write-Through
• Write Cache Enabled Protected
• Write Cache Disabled
• Cache Policy—displays if cache policy is enabled.
Physical Disks
When you select this option from the View
drop-down menu, the Filter drop-down list is
displayed.
The following options are available in the filter:
• All Physical Disks
• Global Hot Spares
• Dedicated Hot Spares
• The last option displays custom name of
the virtual drives.
• Name—displays the name of the physical disk.
• Device FQDD—displays the device FQDD.
• Capacity—displays the physical disk capacity.
• Disk Status—displays physical disk status. The options include:
• ONLINE
• READY
• DEGRADED
• FAILED
• OFFLINE
• REBUILDING
• INCOMPATIBLE
• REMOVED
• CLEARED
• SMART ALERT DETECTED
• UNKNOWN
• FOREIGN
• UNSUPPORTED
• Configured—displays whether the disk is configured.
• Hot Spare Type(Not applicable for PCIe)—shows the hot spare type. The options
include:
• No—there is no hot spare.
• Global—an unused backup disk that is part of the disk group
• Dedicated—an unused backup disk that is assigned to a single virtual drive.
When a physical disk in the virtual drive crashes, the hot spare is enabled to
replace the failed physical disk without interrupting the system or requiring your
intervention.
• Virtual Disk—displays the name of the virtual drive.
• Bus Protocol—displays the bus protocol.
• Controller ID—displays the controller ID.
• Media Type—displays either SSD or HDD.
Host Management
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