beautypg.com

86 controller details dialog box – HP 8.20q Fibre Channel Switch User Manual

Page 113

background image

HP StorageWorks Simple SAN Connection Manager User Guide 113

2.

(Optional) Manage the controller by right-clicking a controller icon to open a shortcut menu. The

shortcut menu may contain the following items (not all menu items are available for every controller):
Reset Controller (MSA storage only)—Click this to reinitialize all controllers and invalidate their

caches.

Controller Details—Click this to view details of the selected controller (

Figure 86

), including its

name, status, identifier, and health. It also lists its ports and active logical disks.

Figure 86

Controller Details dialog box

3.

(Optional) Manage the disk drives by right-clicking a drive icon to open a shortcut menu. The shortcut

menu may contain the following items (not all menu items are available for every disk drive):
Set Drive as Hot Spare—Click this to designate the selected drive as a standby drive in case another

drive fails (

Figure 87

).

Remove Drive as Hot Spare—Click this to return the selected drive to the pool of drives available for

logical disk creation.

Blink Drive (MSA storage only)—Click this to begin blinking an LED indicator on the drive so that

you can identify it (

Figure 87

).

Stop Drive Blinking (MSA storage only)—Click this to stop blinking the LED indicator that you have

previously set to blink.

Set Drive Status—Click this to open the Set Drive Status dialog box (

Figure 88

) and select a status

(for example, available, offline, not ready, or failed).

Drive Details—Click this to open the Drive Details dialog box (

Figure 89

) and view details of the

selected disk drive, including its name, status, identifier, health, bus, slot, and size. Additional

details include the storage pool name, RAID type, and a list of its logical disks.