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Disk Array Management

From the Main Menu, press 3 and Enter to access Disk Array Management. This
are deals with disk arrays and logical drives that you create, in contrast to
physical drives which are covered under a separate menu.

PDM Auto Start option: Enabled
ID Name

RAID SBS

CAP

Member PDs Status

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1

LogDrv1

5

64K

239GB

1-2,4

Functional

2

LogDrv2

5

64K

265GB

3,5,7

SYNC 50%

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Logical Drive Management
1. Logical Drive Auto Creation
2. Create New Logical Drive
3. Delete Logical Drive
4. Modify Logical Drive Parameters
5. PDM Auto Start Option
R. Return to Previous Menu

Please enter your menu choice>

The Logical Drive Magement submenu lists all logical drives in the order of their
creation, along with name, RAID level, Stripe Block Size, Capacity, physical
drives used and its status.

Status is reported for each logical drive as follows:

Functional – Normal operation

Critical – A physical drive has failed, the logical drive is available but fault
tolerance has been lost

Offline – The logical drive is offline and unavailable

INIT x% – Initialization, done at logical drive creation. The logical drive is
clearing old, unusuable data from the disk drives.

RBLD x% – Rebuild, a repair operation. The logical drive is rebuilding data
or parity to a replacement drive. The target disk drive is cited by ID number.
The logical drive is available

SYNC x% – Synchronization, a maintenance operation. The logical drive
checks the data and parity and corrects inconsistencies. The logical drive is
available

PDM x% – Predictive Data Migration, a maintenance operation. The logical
drive moves data from a suspect disk drive to a replacement. The target disk
drive is cited by ID number. This action anticipates and prevents a disk drive
failure and resulting Critical Status. A replacement disk drive is required. The
logical drive is available