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MegaRAID Storage Manager Online Help System |
Monitoring Virtual Drives
When MegaRAID Storage Manager is running, you can see the status of all virtual drives. If a virtual drive is operating normally, the icon looks like this:
. Color-coded circles appear next to the icon to indicate the following:
- Green: The server is operating properly.
- Yellow: The server is running in a partially degraded state (for example, if a drive has failed); the data is still safe, but data could be lost if another drive fails.
- Orange: The server is running in a degraded state.
- Red: The server storage configuration has failed.
When the Logical tab is selected, the panel on the left shows which drives are used by each virtual drive. The same drive can be used by multiple virtual drives.
To display complete virtual drive information, click the Logical tab in the left panel, and click on a virtual drive icon in the left panel. The properties appear in the right panel. The RAID level, strip size, and access policy of the virtual drive are set when the virtual drive is configured.
You can change the read policy, write policy, and other virtual drive properties. See Changing Virtual Drive Properties for the procedure you can use to change these properties.
You can change the Read Policy, Write Policy, and other virtual drive properties by selecting the virtual drive icon, clicking the Operations tab, and clicking Select Virtual Drive Properties.
If the drives in the virtual drive are in a disk enclosure, you can identify them by making their LEDs blink. To do this, follow these steps:
- Click the virtual drive icon in the left panel.
- Either select Go To->Virtual Drive->Start Locating Virtual Drive, or right-click a virtual drive and select Start Locating Virtual Drive from the menu.
The LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking (except for hot spare drives).- To stop the LEDs from blinking, select Go To->Virtual Drive->Stop Locating Virtual Drive.
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