Users Guide

Physical disk management
Viewing physical disk properties
1. Enter the Dell PERC 10 Configuration Utility. See Navigating to Dell PERC 10 configuration utility.
2. Click Main Menu > Physical Disk Management.
All the physical disks associated with the RAID controller are displayed.
3. To view the properties, click on the physical disk. The following properties can be viewed on the physical disk:
Table 13. Physical disk properties
Option Description
Operation List of operations you can perform on the selected physical disk. The options
are:
● Blink
● Unblink
● Force Offline
● Replace Member
● Erase Options
● Global and Dedicated hotspare
● Convert to RAID Capable
● Convert to Non-RAID Disk
Device ID Unique identifier of the physical disk.
Connection Number of paths and how wide the paths are to the physical disk. Indicated if a
physical disk is in a multipath configuration for H745P MX and H840.
Backplane ID Backplane ID in which the physical disk is located in for H345, H740P, H740
mini, H745, H745P MX, and H840.
Enclosure position The enclosure in which the physical disk is located for H840.
Chassis slot value The chassis slot value of the chassis slot in which the physical disk is located
when the physical disk is in a MX 5016s storage sled for the controller H745P
MX.
Slot number The drive bay in which the physical disk is located for the corresponding
backplane or enclosure to which the controller is connected.
Status Status of the physical disk.
Size Size of the physical disk.
Type Type of the physical disk.
Model Model of the physical disk.
Part number Part number of the physical disk.
Serial number Serial of the physical disk.
Manufacturing date Date on which the physical disk has been manufactured.
Associated virtual disks Virtual disks associated with the physical disk.
4. Click Advanced....
You can view the following additional properties of the physical disk:
Table 14. Advanced physical disk properties
Option Description
Logical sector size Logical sector size of the selected physical disk.
Physical sector size Physical sector size of the selected physical disk.
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