Contents

 

B.3.1

Changing the Screen Display

102

 

B.3.2

Disk Array Administrator Menu Tree

103

C Creating and Managing Arrays & Partitions

105

 

C.1

Creating Arrays

105

 

C.1.1

Creating a Single-Partition Array

106

 

C.1.2

Creating a Multiple-Partition Array

111

 

C.2

Managing Arrays

116

 

C.2.1

Viewing Array and Drive Status Information

117

 

C.2.2

Stopping the Array Initialization Process

120

 

C.2.3

Adding a Partition

121

 

C.2.4

Verifying an Array

123

 

C.2.5

Reconstructing an Array

126

 

C.2.6

Expanding Array Capacity

126

 

C.2.7

Changing an Array Name

129

 

C.2.8

Changing Array Ownership

130

 

C.2.9

Trusting an Array

130

 

C.2.10

Deleting an Array

131

 

C.3

Managing Partitions

133

 

C.3.1

Understanding Partitions

133

 

C.3.2

Viewing Partition Status Information

134

 

C.3.3

Expanding a Partition

139

 

C.3.4

Changing a Partition Name

140

 

C.3.5

Changing a Partition LUN

141

 

C.3.6

Changing the Read-Ahead Cache Size

142

 

C.3.7

Enabling or Disabling Write-back Cache

143

 

C.3.8

Controlling Partition Access

144

 

C.3.9

Deleting a Partition

151

D

Monitoring System Status

153

 

D.1

Introduction

153

 

D.2

Displaying the Event Log

154

 

D.2.1

Viewing the Most Recent Event

154

 

D.2.2

Viewing One Event at a Time

155

 

D.2.3

Viewing a Whole Screen of Events

156

 

D.2.4

Capturing the Event Log

157

 

D.3

Displaying Module Status Information

158

 

D.4

Displaying Hardware and Configuration Information

159

 

D.5

Capturing the Event Log, Hardware, and Configuration Information

164

 

D.6

Displaying Drive Errors and Resetting Error Statistics

164

 

D.7

Displaying Overall Statistics

165

 

D.7.1

Resetting Overall Statistics

166

E

Managing Spares

167

 

E.1

Managing Dedicated Spares

168

 

E.1.1

Adding a Dedicated Spare

168

 

E.1.2

Deleting a Dedicated Spare

168

 

E.2

Enabling Dynamic Spares

169

 

E.3 Managing the Spare Pool

170

 

E.3.1

Adding a Spare to the Spare Pool

171

 

E.3.2

Deleting a Spare from the Spare Pool

171

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