Promise Technology M310p User Manual
VTrak M310p, M210p Product Manual
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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.
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.
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Forced Offline – This drive was forced offline by the user.
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Forced Online – This drive was forced online by the user.
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Transition Running – A Transition is running that involves this physical drive.
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PDM Running – PDM is running on this physical drive.
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Media Patrol Running – Media Patrol is running on this physical drive.
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Stale – The physical drive contains obsolete disk array information. Click on
the Clear tab.
the Clear tab.
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PFA – The physical drive has errors resulting in a prediction of failure. Click
on the Clear tab.
on the Clear tab.
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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.
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.
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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:
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.
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.
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: