StorCase Technology FC-to-SCSI Single & Dual RAID - Manual (Page 71)

58 Configuration
StorCase Technology, Inc. FC-SCSI Dual RAID Module User's Guide - Rev. A01
After an array is expanded, the user can either add a partition or expand the last partition to
utilize the free space. One or more partitions can also be deleted to expand the last partition.
Viewing Partition Status Information
The user can perform three functions related to partition status information:
• View Partition Status
• View Partition Statistics
• Reset Partition Statistics
Viewing Partition Status
This function allows the user to view the status the partition, including the following:
• Array State - Online, Offline, Critical, or Fault-tolerant
• Array Type - RAID level (0, 3, 4, 5, 50, Volume, or Mirrored). The term "mirrored"
is used for both RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays.
• Array Drives - Number of drives in the array when fault-tolerant (for example, if
a three drive RAID 5 array was created and one drive is lost, the number will still
show three drives).
• Name - The name of the partition.
• Serial Number - Target ID: LUN - Target ID and LUN presented to the host system.
• Partition Size - Size of the partition (in MB).
• Percentage of Total Array - The percentage of the total array that this partition
represents.
• Write-back Caching - Status of the write-back cache (enabled or disabled) for
this array.
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Partition 1 Partition 2 Partition 3 Partition 4 Partition 5 Free Space
Figure 36: Array (with Five Partitions) after Expansion