Users Guide

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Physical Disk Tasks
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Do the following to execute a physical disk task:
1. Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2. Expand a controller object.
3. Expand a Connector object.
4. Expand the enclosure or Backplane object.
5. Select the Physical Disks object.
6. Select the Information/Configuration subtab.
7. Select a task from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.
8. Click Execute.
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Physical Disk Drop-down Menu Tasks:
"2109"
"2110"
"2111"
Progress
This property displays how close to completion an operation is that is being performed on the physical disk. For example, if the physical
disk is being rebuilt, then a value of 52% indicates that the rebuild is 52% complete.
This property is only displayed when an operation is being performed on the physical disk.
Bus Protocol
This property displays the technology that the physical disk is using. Possible values are:
SCSI — Small Computer System Interface
SAS — Serial Attached SCSI
SATA — Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Media
This property displays the media type of the physical disk. The possible values are:
HDD—Hard Disk Drive. A HDD is a non-volatile storage device which stores digitally-encoded data on rapidly rotating platters with magnetic
surfaces.
SSD—Solid State Drive. An SSD is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data.
Unknown—Storage Management is unable to determine the media type of the physical disk.
Used RAID Disk
Space
This property displays how much of the physical disk space is being used by the virtual disks on the controller. This property is Not
Applicable for physical disks attached to non-RAID controllers.
In certain circumstances, the Used RAID Disk Space displays a value of zero (0) even though a portion of the physical disk is being used.
This occurs when the used space is 0.005 GB or less. The algorithm for calculating the used disk space rounds a figure of 0.005 GB or less
to 0. Used disk space that is between 0.006 GB and 0.009 GB is rounded up to 0.01 GB.
Available RAID
Disk Space
This property displays the amount of available space on the disk. This property is Not Applicable for physical disks attached to non-RAID
controllers.
Hot Spare
This property indicates whether the disk has been assigned as a hot spare. This property is Not Applicable for physical disks attached to
non-RAID controllers.
Vendor ID
This property displays the disk's hardware vendor.
Product ID
This property displays the disk's product ID.
Revision
This property displays the disk's revision number.
Serial No.
This property displays the disk's serial number.
Negotiated
Speed
This property displays the speed of data transfer that the disk negotiated while spinning up and upon initial communication with the
controller. This speed is dependent on the speed of the disk, the capable speed of the controller, the current speed of the controller on
that connector, and the speed of the EMM (Enclosure Management Module) on the enclosure.
Capable Speed
This property displays the highest possible speed that the device can transfer data.
Manufacture
Day
This property displays the day of the month during which the physical disk was manufactured.
Manufacture
Week
This property displays the week of the year during which the physical disk was manufactured.
Manufacture
Year
This property displays the year that the physical disk was manufactured.
SAS Address
This property displays the SAS address of the physical disk. The SAS address is unique to each SAS disk.
NOTE: Different controllers support different features. For this reason, the tasks displayed on the Tasks drop-down menu can vary depending on which
controller is selected in the tree view. If no tasks can be performed because of controller or system configuration limitations, then the Tasks drop-down
menu displays No Task Available.