Configuration And Management Of The X8 Accelerator Device; Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager - Seagate ST1100FR0000 User Manual

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Configuration and Management of the X8 Accelerator Device

Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager is the Seagate Management GUI to configure and monitor Seagate X8 Accelerator
devices in the system. Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager is a combination of other CLI utilities such as vgc-beacon, vgc-
config, and vgc-monitor. All the information and details of the devices can be accessed via the Seagate X8 Accelerator
Manager. Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager is a part of the installation package.
To launch the X8 Accelerator Manager, go to Start -> X8 Accelerator Manager.

Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager

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The landing panel of the Seagate X8 Accelerator Manager is shown below. This panel displays the top level information
about all Seagate devices present in the system.
In the above example, the Seagate X8 Accelerator device in the system is vgca. The device name always starts with 'vgc'.
The top half of this panel displays the Health information, Version information, Serial and Model numbers, and Location and
Beacon information.
The latter half of the panel displays the Device Name, Status, Temperature, Remaining Life, Serial Number, Model and
Usable Capacity of the X8 Accelerator device.
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