5. Running Power Console Plus

This section describes how to run Power Console Plus.

Described below is simple terminology and basic operations.

Drive Status

The statuses of each physical drive shown to the right of the SCSI ID or array are as follows:

Drive Status

Code

Description

Online

Onln

The physical drive works normally. It is part of a

 

 

configured logical drive.

Ready

READY

The physical drive works normally. It is not part of a

 

 

configured logical drive and is not a hot spare.

 

 

It is sometimes displayed with “Master”, too.

Hot Spare

HOTSP

The drive is available as a spare drive in case an

 

 

online physical drive fails.

Failed

Failed

The physical drive is out of service because it

 

 

failed.

Rebuild

Rebuild

The physical drive is being rebuilt.

 

 

 

Logical Devices

Logical Devices View displays the configured arrays, logical drives, and hot spares and global hot spare pool of the current controller.

Click on [Logical View] radio button on Logical Devices View to display the configured logical drives. Click on [Physical View] to display the configured physical drives.

When you delete the created logical drive, please do [Delete] from the menu which chooses a logical drive and is displayed by right-click. Be careful not to use it accidentally.

Moreover, when two or more logical drives exist, please delete from the logical drive created at the end. When it deletes except the last logical drive, the composition information on an array may break.

Displaying Adapter (Controller) Properties

Click on [Properties] in [Adapter] menu to display the adapter properties as shown in the figure.

You can view the firmware version, BIOS version, and rebuild rate of the current controller.

You can also view the RAID level and size of the logical drive created in the current controller.

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