Viewing Disk Array Information; Creating A Disk Array Manually - G-Technology G SPEED STUDIO XL Product Manual

G SPEED
STUDIO
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Viewing Disk Array Information

To view disk array information:
1. Do one of the following actions:
• From the Dashboard window, click the Disk Array link.
• From the Storage menu, choose Disk Array.
2. Mouse-over the disk array you want, then click the View button.
Disk array information includes:
• Disk Array ID – DA0, DA1, etc.
• Alias – If assigned
• Operational Status – OK, Degraded or Offline
• Media Patrol – Enabled or disabled in this array
• PDM – Enabled or disabled in this array
• Total Physical Capacity – Maximum capacity, including used and unused capacity, of the
physical drives
• Configurable Capacity – Data capacity of the array
• Free Capacity – Unconfigured or unused capacity on the physical drives
• Max. Contiguous Free Capacity – The largest single chunk of unused capacity on the
physical drives
• Number of Physical Drives – The number of physical drives in this array
• Number of Logical Drives – The number of logical drives in this array
• Number of Dedicated Spares – The number of spare drives dedicated to this array
• Available RAID Levels – RAID levels that this disk array can support

Creating a Disk Array Manually

This feature only creates a disk array. You can also use the Wizard to create a disk array with logical
and spare drives concurrently.
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