MegaRAID Storage Manager Online Help System

Monitoring Server Events and Devices > Monitoring Drives

Monitoring Drives

When MegaRAID Storage Manager is running, you can see the status of all drives in the left panel. If the drive is operating normally, the icon looks like this: . If the drive has failed, a small red circle appears to the right of the icon.

To display complete drive Information, click on a drive icon in the left panel, and click the Properties tab in the right panel. The information on this tab is self-explanatory. There are no user-selectable properties for physical devices. Icons for other storage devices, such as CD-ROM drives and DAT drives, can also appear in the left panel.

The Power Status property shows On when a drive is spun up and Powersave when a drive is spun down. Note that SSD drives and other drives that never spin down still show On.

If the drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify which drive is represented by a disk icon on the left. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Click the drive icon in the left panel.
  2. Select Go To->Physical Drive->Start Locating Drive tab in the right panel.
  3. The LED on the drive in the enclosure starts blinking to show its location.

    LEDs on drives that are global hot spares do not blink.

  4. To stop the drive light on the enclosure from blinking, select Go To->Physical Drive->Stop Locating Drive.
  5. To display a graphical view of a drive, click a drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, and click the Graphical View tab. In the Graphical View, the drive’s storage capacity is color coded according to the legend shown on the screen: configured space is blue, available space is white, and reserved space is red. When you select a virtual drive from the drop-down menu, the drive space used by that virtual drive is displayed in green.

DB09-000202-04  37857-02  Rev. E  October 2010
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