Configuring physical drives
If you are configuring physical drives
and arrays, you might want to review the following information:
The Main Tree displays only ready
drives. The system icon is the root of the Main Tree. From the root, the tree
expands in the following order:
- Controller
- Physical drives
- SCSI channel
- Drive
The Main Panel (that is, the right
panel) displays a tree with the controller as the root. This tree
shows the following:
- The arrays that will be defined
when you complete the configuration.
- The hot-spare drives that will
be defined when you complete the configuration.
- The size of all the arrays.
- The size of all the physical
drives.
- Which physical drives are defined
within each array.
- Which physical drives are defined
as hot-spare drives.
There are two types of items in the
right tree: new items and existing items. You can change new items
if they are not in the configuration yet. You cannot change or delete existing
items.
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context-sensitive help for a panel.
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off. The default is On (that is, checked).
- Status bar
- Turns the status bar on and
off. The default is On (that is, checked).
- Actions ==>
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- Any action that is valid for
the selected Main Tree icon displays in this
menu.
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- Note: If there are
no valid actions for the object you selected, the Actions menu is grayed
out.
- Help ==>
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words in the help system and displays a list of topics that include the
words.
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- Displays the help system
index.
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table of contents. You can use the contents to acquaint yourself with
help system topics.
- About ServeRAID Manager
- Displays the ServeRAID Manager
version number, copyright, and legal information.