Monitoring Drives
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> Monitoring Drives

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

> To display the complete drive Information, click on a drive icon in the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager main menu. The drive properties appear in the right panel as shown in the following figure. 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.

> Figure 68. Drive Properties

> | Green: The virtual drive is operating properly.

> | Yellow: The virtual drive 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 virtual drive is running in a degraded state.

> | Red: The virtual drive 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 as shown in the following figure. 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. To change these properties, see Section, Changing Virtual Drive Properties.

> NOTE You can change the Read Policy, Write Policy, and other virtual drive properties by selecting the virtual drive icon and then selecting Go To > Virtual Drive > Set Virtual Drive Properties in the menu bar.

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