Dell H310, H710P, H810 manual Physical Disk Management PD Mgmt

Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt)

The Physical Disk Management screen (PD Mgmt) displays physical disk information and action menus. The screen displays physical disk IDs, vendor names, disk size, type, state, and disk group (DG). You can sort the list of physical disks based on the headings. You can perform several actions on the physical disks, including the following:

•Rebuilding physical disks

•Performing the Replace Member operation

•Setting the LED to blink

•Making a disk online or offline (unaffiliated with a disk group)

•Creating global hot spares

•Removing dedicated hot spares or global hot spares

The PD Mgmt screen also displays several physical disk properties as shown in Table 5-5.

Table 5-5. Information on the Physical Disk Management Screen

Information Displayed in Left Panel	Supported Information Displayed in
	Right Panel
Physical Disk:	• Security Property of Physical Disk
• Disk ID	• Encryption Capable
• Protocol type	• Product ID
• Capacity (GB)	• Firmware Revision
• Physical Disk State	• Disk Write Cache
• Disk Group	• S.M.A.R.T state
• Vendor	• Physical Disk operation
	• Max Device Link Rate
	• Negotiated Link Rate
	• Dell Certified Disk

Management Applications for PERC Cards

77