Users Guide
2. On the Storage Dashboard page, select Change Controller Properties... from the Available Tasks drop down menu.
3. Click Execute.
Or:
1. Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2. Select a controller object.
3. Select the Information/Configuration subtab.
4. Select Change Controller Properties... from the Controller Tasks drop down menu.
5. Click Execute.
Related Information:
l "Set Rebuild Rate"
l "Set Background Initialization Rate"
l "Set Check Consistency Rate"
l "Set Reconstruct Rate"
l "Abort check consistency on error"
l "Revertible Hot Spare"
l "Loadbalance"
l "Redundant Path Configuration"
Manage Physical Disk Power
Does my controller support this feature? See "Supported Features."
The Manage Physical Disk Power task allows you to manage the power consumed by the physical disks by spinning down the hot spares and unconfigured
disks. This option is provided only with PERC H700 and PERC H800 controllers with the firmware version 7.1 and above.
The following table displays the properties in the Manage Physical Disk Power option:
To manage physical disk power:
1. Select Enabled for the Spin Down Unconfigured Drives and Spin Down Hot Spares options.
2. Click Apply Changes. If you want to exit and cancel your changes, click Go Back to Previous Page.
To locate this task in storage management:
1. Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2. Select a controller object.
3. Select the Information/Configuration subtab.
4. Select Manage Physical Disk Power from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.
5. Click Execute.
Property
Definition
Spin Down Unconfigured
Drives
The Enabled option spins down the unconfigured disks if they are unattended for a specified interval of time.
Spin Down Hot Spares
The Enabled option spins down the hot spares if no read-write operation takes place on the hot spare in a specified interval
of time.
Time Interval for Spin Down
This property sets the time interval after which the hot spares and unconfigured drives will spin down.