Running Spare Check
Spare Check verifies the operational status of your spare drives. You can also schedule a Spare Check.
To check a spare drive:
1.Click the Subsystem 
icon in Tree View.
2.Click the Spare Drives 
icon.
3.Click the Spare Check tab in Management View.
4.From the Physical Drive dropdown menu, select the spare drive you want to check. Or select All to check all the spare drives at the same time.
5.Click the Submit button.
The results of the Spare Check appear under Spare Check Status in the Information tab. ―Healthy‖ means normal condition.
Working with the Logical Drive Summary
The Logical Drive Summary displays a list of all logical drives in the Astra ES enclosure plus the expanded or cascaded enclosures. This list does not arrange the logical drives under the disk array to which they belong nor under the enclosure in which they are located.
Logical Drive Summary includes the following functions:
•Viewing a List of All Logical Drives
•Viewing Individual Logical Drive Information
Viewing a List of All Logical Drives
To view a list of all logical drives in all enclosures:
1.Click the Subsystem 
icon in Tree View.
2.Click the Drive Summary 
icon.
Viewing Individual Logical Drive Information
1.Click the Subsystem 
icon in Tree View.
2.Click the Drive Summary 
icon.
3.Click the Logical Drive 
icon.
The information and location for the logical drive appear in Management View.
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