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:

  1. Controller
  2. Physical drives
  3. SCSI channel
  4. Drive

The Main Panel (that is, the right panel) displays a tree with the controller as the root. This tree shows the following:

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.

Tool bar

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Menu bar

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Actions ==>
Any action that is valid for the selected Main Tree icon appears in this menu.
 
Note: If there are no valid actions for the object you selected, the Actions menu is grayed out.

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