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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:
. There are color-coded circles that appear next to the inco 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, click on a virtual drive icon in the left panel, and click the Properties tab in the right panel.
The RAID level, stripe size, access policy, and other properties of the virtual drive are set when it is configured, as explained in Creating a New Configuration.
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.
- Click the Operations tab in the right panel.
- Select Locate Virtual Drive and click Go.
The LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking (except for hotspare drives).- To stop the LEDs from blinking, select Stop Locating Virtual Drive and click Go.
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