Viewing And Setting Information About The Utility; View Controller Information: Disk Array Controller Information View - Hitachi Compute Blade 500 Series User Manual

Viewing and setting information about the utility

This section describes setting items and values and displayed items of LSI
Software RAID Configuration Utility.
• In the table for each menu, default values are enclosed in << >>.
• In the table for each menu, recommended values are enclosed in [ ].
Examples:
[<<Enable>>]/Disable: "Enable" is the default and recommended value.
[Enable]/<<Disable>>: "Enable" is recommended although "Disable" is the
default. You need to change it to the recommended value.
Note: Unless otherwise specified, make sure to set each item to the
recommended value. If you set it to any other value than the recommended,
the system is out of support and may not work properly.

View Controller Information: disk array controller information view

On this window, you can show hardware information about a disk array
controller.
1 Select Controller Management from Configuration Options window, and
.
press Enter.
2 Controller Management window appears. Select View Controller
.
Information, and press Enter.
3 Controller Management > View Controller Information menu appears.
.
The following table shows description of items in the window.
Controller Marketing Name
Serial Number
PCI ID
Host Interface
Host Port Count
PCI Slot Number
Drive Count
Virtual Drive Count
Encryption Capable
Minimum Stripe Size
Maximum Stripe Size
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Table 6-6 View Controller Information menu items
Menu items
Controller name
Serial number for the controller
Device information about the controller
Type of the controller host interface
Number of ports for the controller
PCI slot number on which the controller is installed
Number of physical drives the controller recognizes
Number of virtual drives the controller recognizes
Setting information about the controller encryption
Minimum stripe size when the virtual drive is accessed
Maximum stripe size when the virtual drive is accessed
LSI Software RAID Configuration Utility for disk arrays
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