Fibre Channel – A Fibre Channel initiator name is the World Wide Port Name of the device and is composed of a series of eight, two-digit hexadecimal numbers.

SAS – A SAS initiator name is the SAS address of the HBA card in the Host PC.

Alias – Optional. A common name for an iSCSI initiator

Symbolic Name – Optional. A common name for a Fibre Channel initiator

Port ID – Port ID of the Fibre Channel port for this initiator

LUN – Logical Unit Number on this logical drive for the selected initiator. You must enter different LUN numbers for each logical drive.

Managing Spare Drives

When a physical drive in a disk array fails and a spare drive of adequate capacity is available, the disk array will begin to rebuild automatically using the spare drive.

Spare drive management includes the following functions:

Viewing a List of Spare Drives

Locating a Spare Drive

Creating and Deleting a Spare Drive

Modifying the Spare Drive Settings

Running a Spare Drive Check

Viewing a List of Spare Drives

To view a list of spare drives:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click the Spare Drives icon.

The information includes:

ID – The unique ID number assigned to the spare drive.

Operational Status – OK is normal. Can also show Rebuilding, Transition Running, PDM Running, or Offline.

Physical Drive ID – The ID number of the physical drive in the subsystem enclosure.

Capacity – The data storage capacity of this spare drive.

Revertible – Yes or No. A revertible spare drive automatically returns to its spare drive assignment after the failed physical drive in the disk array is replaced.

Type – Global, can be used by any disk array. Dedicated, can only be used by the assigned disk array.

Dedicated to Array – For dedicated spares, the disk array to which it is assigned. Global spares show N/A.

Locating a Spare Drive

To locate a physical drive assigned as a spare drive in the Astra ES subsystem enclosure:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click the Spare Drives icon.

3.Click the Spare Drive icon.

In Management View, the Enclosure Front View diagram appears with the location of the spare drive highlighted.

Creating a Spare Drive

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