Viewing Array And Disk Drive Status Information - Adaptec DuraStor 7220SS User Manual

Viewing Array and Disk Drive Status Information

You can view array status and disk drive status at any time.
Viewing Array Status
You can view the following information for any array:
State—Online, Offline, Critical, or Fault-tolerant.
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Serial number—Unique number the controller assigns to each
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array.
Name—Name you gave to the array.
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RAID level—Array type (0, 3, 4, 5, 50, volume, or mirrored). The
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term mirrored is used for both RAID 1 and RAID 10 arrays.
Number of drives—Number of disk drives in the array when
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fault-tolerant. For example, if you create a three-drive RAID 5
array and lose one disk drive, the number will still display 3.
Number of drives per subarray—(RAID 50 only) Number of
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disk drives in each underlying RAID 5 array.
Number of spare drives—Number of spare disk drives
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dedicated to this array.
Size—Size of the entire array (expressed in MB or GB for arrays
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larger than 10 GB).
Chunk size—Array's chunk size.
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Date created—Date the array was created.
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Utility—Utility running (None, Verify, Reconstruct, Expand, or
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Initialize).
Number of partitions—Number of partitions created on the
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array.
Free partition total—Amount of free space (no partition) on the
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array.
Creating and Managing Arrays and Partitions
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