Promise Technology EX8650, EX8658, EX8654, EX4650 manual Working with the Logical Drive Summary

SuperTrak EX Series User Manual

Working with the Logical Drive Summary

The Logical Drive Summary displays a list of all logical drives under the SuperTrak controller including logical drives in 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 (page 176)

•Locating a Logical Drive (page 176)

•Viewing Individual Logical Drive Information (page 177)

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 Logical Drive Summary icon.

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 9. VTrak drive carrier LEDs

Disk Status

Power/Activity

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