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Figure 10-4 Enclosure Properties
The remaining physical components in the Physical pane are disks and controllers. If you
select a disk or a controller, you will get relevant information about disk or controller in the
right Properties pane.

10.2.3 Disk Drive menu

If you right click on a disk drive, the menu for other configuration options appears. Some items
in menu (Figure 10-5) can by greyed as not all options are possible for all disk drive types. It
also depends on status of disk drive and how the disk is configured.
Figure 10-5 Disk drive menu
Two menu options we describe in separate sections in this chapter are:
Hot Spare Coverage in 10.3, "Set hot spare drive" on page 268
Replace Drive in 10.4, "Failed disk drive replacement" on page 272
The other menu items we cover in the following sections.
View Associated Logical Element
If you select this menu item, you can see related logical objects (as shown in Figure 10-6 on
page 267), like Array and Logical Drives that are using the selected disk drive.
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