Promise Technology EX8654, EX8658 Locating a Logical Drive, Virtual or Third Party Enclosures

Chapter 5: Management with WebPAM PRO

fault tolerance. When a logical drive is rebuilding, it will function and your data is available. However, access will be slower due to the rebuilding operation.

To create a logical drive, see “Creating a Logical Drive” on page 159.

To delete a logical drive, see “Deleting a Logical Drive” on page 160.

For a Degraded or Offline logical drive, see “Critical & Offline Logical Drives” on page 253.

Locating a Logical Drive

Virtual or Third Party Enclosures

Support for this feature depends on how your system or enclosure was set up. Direct-connect systems with individual LED connections and SGPIO enclosures support individual physical drive LEDs. Other systems or enclosures might or might not support them. See “Appendix D: LED Backplane Connections” on page 291.

To locate a logical drive in the enclosure, click the Locate LDx button. The LEDs for the carriers holding the physical drives used by the logical drive will blink for one minute.

Promise Enclosures

To locate a logical drive in the VTrak JBOD enclosure, click the Locate LDx button. The disk status LEDs will blink for one minute to identify the carriers holding the physical drives used by the logical drive.

Figure 8. VTrak drive carrier LEDs

Disk Status

Power/Activity

Viewing Logical Drive Information

To view information for a single logical drive:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click the Disk Arrays icon.

3.Click the Disk Array icon.

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