G- and K-Series User’s Guide
Managing Arrays
The Disk Array Administrator software lets you manage your arrays in a variety of ways. You can:
✁View array and drive status (see page 4-8)
✁Stop the initialization process (see page 4-14)
✁Verify an array (see page 4-15)
✁Reconstruct an array (see page 4-17)
✁Expand array capacity (see page 4-18)
✁Change the array LUN (see page 4-21)
✁Change the array name (see page 4-22)
✁Trust an array (see page 4-22)
✁Delete an array (see page 4-24)
Viewing Array Status
You can view the status of an array, including the following information:
✁State—Online, Offline, Critical, or Fault-tolerant.
✁Name—The name given to the array.
✁RAID—RAID type (0, 3, 4, 5, 50, Volume, or Mirrored). The term “mirrored” is used for both RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays.
✁# of Drives—Number of drives in the array when fault-tolerant. For example, if you create a three-drive RAID-5 array and lose one drive, the number will still display 3.
✁# of Spares—Number of spare drives dedicated to this array.
✁LUN #—LUN presented to the host system.
✁Size—Size of the entire array (expressed in MB or GB for arrays larger than 10 GB).
✁Chunk size—The array’s chunk size.
