Monitoring Enclosures; Monitoring Battery Backup Units - Lenovo ThinkServer RD330 Software User's Manual

MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
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Monitoring Enclosures

9.8 Monitoring Battery
Backup Units
Figure 191: Virtual Drive Properties
The RAID level, stripe size, and access policy of the virtual drive are set when it is
configured.
NOTE: You can change the read policy, write policy, and other virtual drive properties.
See Section 8.6, Changing Virtual Drive Properties
change these properties.
If the drives in the virtual drive are in an enclosure, you can identify them by making
their LEDs blink. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Click the virtual drive icon in the left panel.
2. Click Go To>Virtual Drive>Start Locating Virtual Drive or right-click a virtual
drive and select Start Locating Virtual Drive from the menu.
The LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking (except for hot spare
drives).
3. To stop the LEDs from blinking, click Go To>Virtual Drive>Stop Locating Virtual
Drive.
When MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all
enclosures connected to the server by selecting the Physical tab in the left panel. If an
enclosure is operating normally, the icon looks like this:
functioning normally—for example, if a fan has failed—a small yellow or red circle
appears to the right of the icon.
When MegaRAID Storage Manager is running, you can monitor the status of all of the
BBUs connected to controllers in the server. If a BBU is operating normally, the icon
looks like this: . If it has failed, a red dot appears next to the icon.
To show the properties for a BBU, perform the following steps:
1. On the main menu screen, click the Physical tab to open the physical view.
Chapter 9: Monitoring System Events and Storage Devices
for the procedure you can use to
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