Users Guide
Property Denition
NOTE: Storage Management displays Not Applicable on
some controllers for which the rmware version cannot be
obtained.
Minimum Required Firmware Version Displays the minimum rmware version that is required by Storage
Management. This property is displayed only if the controller
rmware does not meet the minimum requirement.
Driver Version Displays the version of the driver that is installed on the controller.
NOTE: Storage Management displays Not Applicable on
some controllers for which the driver version cannot be
obtained.
Minimum Required Driver Version Displays the minimum driver version that is required by Storage
Management. This property is displayed only if the controller driver
does not meet the minimum requirement.
Number of Connectors Displays the number of connectors on the controller. Each
connector can be attached to physical disks or an enclosure.
Depending on the controller type, the connector can be either a
SCSI channel or a SAS port.
Rebuild Rate Rebuild rate is the percentage of resources available on a system
dedicated to rebuild a failed disk when necessary. For more
information on rebuild rate, see Setting The Rebuild Rate.
NOTE: The value for the Revertible Hot Spare operation is
the same as the value set for the Rebuild Rate property.
BGI Rate The background initialization (BGI) rate is the percentage of
resources available on a system dedicated to perform the
background initialization of a virtual disk after it is created. For more
information on BGI rate, see Setting Background Initialization Rate.
Check Consistency Rate The check consistency rate is the percentage of resources available
on a system dedicated to perform check consistency on a
redundant virtual disk. For more information, see Performing A
Check Consistency.
Reconstruct Rate The reconstruct rate is the percentage of resources available on a
system dedicated to reconstruct a disk group after adding a
physical disk or changing the RAID level of a virtual disk residing on
the disk group. For more information on reconstruct rate, see
Setting The Reconstruct Rate.
Abort Check Consistency on Error Enables you to stop the Check Consistency operation on error.
This property is available only on controllers that have controller
rmware version 6.1 and later.
Allow Revertible Hot Spare and Replace Member Enables the automatic copying of data from a physical disk to a hot
spare (in case of predictive failure) or from a hot spare to a physical
disk (in case of replacement of a degraded disk). For more
information, see Enabling Revertible Hot Spare.
Load Balance Provides the ability to automatically use both controller ports or
connectors connected to the same enclosure to route I/O requests.
This property is available only on SAS controllers that have
controller rmware version 6.1 and later.
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