MegaRAID Storage Manager Online Help System

Monitoring Server Events and Devices > Monitoring Virtual Disks

Monitoring Virtual Disks

When MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all virtual disks. If a virtual disk is operating normally, the icon looks like this: . If a virtual disk is running in degraded mode (for example, if a physical disk has failed) a small yellow circle appears next to the icon: . A red circle indicates that the virtual disk has failed and data has been lost.

When the Logical tab is selected, the panel on the left shows which physical disks are used by each virtual disk.

To display complete virtual disk information, click the Logical tab in the left panel, click on a virtual disk icon in the left panel, and click the Properties tab in the right panel.

You can change the Disk Cache Policy by selecting Operations >> Set Virtual Disk Properties.

If the physical drives in the virtual disk are in a disk enclosure, you can identify them by making their LEDs blink. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Click the virtual disk icon in the left panel.
  2. Click the Operations tab in the right panel.
  3. Select Locate Virtual Disk and click Go.
  4. The LEDs on the physical disk drives in the virtual disk start blinking (except for hotspare drives).
  5. To stop the LEDs from blinking, select Stop Locating Virtual Disk and click Go.

DB09-000202-00  July 2007
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