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Monitoring Virtual Disks

When MegaRAID Storage Manager is running, you can see the status of all virtual disks. If a virtual disk is operating normally, the icon looks like this: . If the virtual disk is running in degraded mode (for example, if a physical disk has failed) a small yellow circle appears to the right of the icon: .

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

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.

The RAID level, stripe size, and access policy of the virtual disk are set when it is configured, as explained in Configuration.

You can change the Read Policy, Write Policy, and other virtual disk properties 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.

DB09-000159-00  July 2005
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