Viewing Physical Disk Drives Properties Using Racadm; Identifying Physical Disks And Virtual Disks; Assigning Global Hot Spares Using Cmc Web Interface; Assigning Global Hot Spares Using Racadm - Dell PowerEdge VRTX User Manual

– Under the Basic Physical Disks Filter option , from the Group By drop-down menu, select Virtual Disk,
Controller, or Enclosure, and then click Apply.
– Click Advanced Filter, select the values for various attributes, and then click Apply.

Viewing Physical Disk Drives Properties Using RACADM

To view the properties of physical disk drives using RACADM, run the command racadm raid get pdisks —o
For more information, see the
Guide .

Identifying Physical Disks and Virtual Disks

For more information about enabling or disabling the LED-blink feature, see:
• Configuring LED Blinking Using CMC Web Interface
• Configuring LED Blinking Using RACADM

Assigning Global Hot Spares Using CMC Web Interface

To assign or unassign a global hot spare:
1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Storage → Physical Disk → Setup.
The Setup Physical Disks page is displayed.
2. Under the Global Hotspares Assignment section, from the Hotspare Action drop-down menu, select Unassigned or
Global Hotspare for each of the physical disk drives, and then click Apply. Alternatively, from the Hotspare Action -
Assign to all drop-down menu, select Unassigned or Global Hotspare, and then click Apply.

Assigning Global Hot Spares Using RACADM

To assign global hot spare using RACADM, run the command racadm raid hotspare: -assign yes -type
ghs.
For more information about using RACADM commands, see the
RACADM Command Line Reference Guide .

Viewing Virtual Disk Properties Using CMC Web Interface

Make sure that the virtual disks are created.
To view the virtual disk properties:
1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview → Storage → Virtual Disks → Properties.
2.
On the Properties page, under the Virtual Disks section, click the
specific virtual disk properties:
– Under Basic Virtual Disks Filter section, from the Controller drop-down menut, select controller name, and
then click Apply.
– Click Advanced Filter, select the values for various attributes, and then click Apply.
Chassis Management Controller for PowerEdge VRTX RACADM Command Line Reference
Chassis Management Controller for PowerEdge VRTX
. You can also use the following filters to view
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