Chapter 2 Useful Features
Virtual Drive
Virtual Drives
Initialize
Check Consistency
View/Update Parameters
• RAID
• SIZE
• Stripe SIZE
• #Stripes
• State
• Spans
• Disk WC
• Read Ahead
Physical Drive
Physical Drive Selection Menu
Make HotSpare
Force Online
Change Drv State
Device Properties
• Device Type
• Media Type
• Capacity
• Product ID
• Revision No.
• Link Speed
Rebuild
Check Consistency
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Operation of Virtual Drive
Select Virtual Drive (if two or more Virtual Drives exist)
Initialize Virtual Drive
Check consistency of Virtual Drive
Display Virtual Drive information
Display RAID level
Display Virtual Drive size
Display Stripe size
Display number of physical devices included in Virtual Drive
Display Virtual Drive status
Display setting of Virtual Drive
Display Write Cache Policy of Virtual Drive
Display Read Ahead Policy of Virtual Drive
Operation of physical drive
Select a physical drive
Specify hot-spare disk used for Auto Rebuild
Forcibly make physical devices online
Forcibly make a physical device offline if it is included in Virtual Drive.
Cancel hot-spare if the physical device is specified as a hot-spare disk.
Display information of physical devices
Device type
Media type (HDD or SSD)
Capacity
Product ID
Revision No.
Transfer rate
Execute Rebuild
Check Consistency of Virtual Drive
Express5800/R120g-1E Maintenance Guide
4. RAID System Configuration