Users Guide

Property Denition

inserted, the slot stops functioning as a hot spare. You must

manually assign the drive as a hot spare again.

Controller Tasks Enables you to congure and manage the controller.

Available Reports Enables you to view patrol read report, check consistency report,

slot occupancy report, and physical disk rmware version report.

For more information on available reports, see Available Reports.

Current Controller Mode Displays the mode of the hardware controller that is selected. The

possible values are RAID or HBA. To change the controller mode,

see Changing The Controller Mode.

Front Chassis Slot Displays the front chassis slot number. This property is applicable

only for PowerEdge FD332 storage sled.

For more information on PowerEdge FD332, see the Dell

PowerEdge FD332 Owner's Manual at dell.com/

poweredgemanuals.

Controller Tasks

To execute a controller task:

1 In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.

2 Select a controller object.

3 Click Information/Conguration on the controller Properties page.

4 Select a task from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.

5 Click Execute.

NOTE

: Dierent controllers support dierent features. The tasks displayed on the Available Tasks drop-down menu vary

depending on the controller selected. The No Task Available option is displayed when no tasks can be performed due to controller

or system conguration limitations.

Controller Tasks

The following are the list of available tasks on a controller:

• Creating A Virtual Disk

• Enabling The Controller Alarm

• Disabling The Controller Alarm

• Turning O The Controller Alarm

• Testing The Controller Alarm

• Setting The Rebuild Rate

• Resetting Conguration

• Exporting The Controller Log File

• Foreign Conguration Operations

• Importing Foreign Congurations

• Importing Or Recovering Foreign Congurations

• Clearing Foreign Conguration

• Setting Background Initialization Rate

• Setting Check Consistency Rate

• Setting The Reconstruct Rate

Controllers