Chapter 4: Management with WebPAM PROe

Transport Ready – After you perform a successful Prepare for Transport operation, this condition means you can remove the physical drives of this disk array and move them to another enclosure or different drive slots. After you relocate the physical drives, the disk array status will show OK.

Forced Offline – This drive was forced offline by the user.

Forced Online – This drive was forced online by the user.

Transition Running – A Transition is running that involves this physical drive.

PDM Running – PDM is running on this physical drive.

Media Patrol Running – Media Patrol is running on this physical drive.

Stale – The physical drive contains obsolete disk array information. Click on the Clear tab.

PFA – The physical drive has errors resulting in a prediction of failure. Click on the Clear tab.

Offline – This condition arises as the result of a second physical drive failure. An Offline logical drive is not accessible but some or all of your data may remain intact. You must determine the cause of the problem and correct it.

Dead – The physical drive has failed.

Disk Array Settings

The Disk Array–Settings tab enables you to assign an alias to this disk array and also enable or disable Media Patrol and PDM. To make Disk Array settings:

1.Click the Subsystem icon in Tree View.

2.Click on the Disk Arrays icon.

3.Click on the Disk Array icon.

4.Click on the Settings tab in Management View.

5.Enter an alias in the Disk Array Alias field.

Maximum of 32 characters. Use letters, numbers, space between words, and underscore. An alias is optional.

6.To enable Media Patrol support, check the Media Patrol box.

7.To enable PDM support, check the PDM box.

8.Click the Submit button.

Create a Logical Drive

The Disk Array–Create LD tab enables you to create additional logical drives under this disk array. When you create a disk array, you automatically create one logical drive also. If the initial logical drive used less than the full capacity of the disk array, you can create additional logical drives from the same disk array.

To create a logical drive:

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Promise Technology M200f, M500i, M500f, M300p, M500p, M300i, M300f, M200i, M200p manual Disk Array Settings, Create a Logical Drive