Administrator Guide

Table 12. Disk Groups table (continued)

Field Description

Disks Shows the number of disks in the disk group.

To see more information about a disk group, select the pool for the disk group in the pools table, then hover the cursor over the disk group

in the Related Disk Groups table. The Disk Group Information panel opens and displays detailed information about the disk group.

Table 13. Disk Group Information panel

Panel Information displayed

Disk Group

Information

Virtual: Name, serial number, pool, tier, % of pool, allocated pages, available pages, ADAPT target spare capacity,

ADAPT actual spare capacity, chunk size, sector format, creation date, minimum disk size, active drive spin down

enable, size, free, RAID, disks, status, current job, health

Linear: Name, serial number, pool, owner, chunk size, spares, sector format, creation date, minimum disk size,

active drive spin down enable, size, free, RAID, disks, status, current job, health

Read cache: Name, serial number, pool, tier, allocated pages, available pages, sector format, health

Related Disks table

When you select a disk group in the Related Disk Groups table, the disks for it appear in the Related Disks table.

For selected disks, the Related Disks table shows the following information:

Table 14. Related Disks table

Field Description

Location Shows the location of the disk.

Health Shows the health of the disk: OK, Degraded, Fault, N/A, or Unknown.

Description Shows the disk type:

• SAS – Enterprise SAS spinning disk.

• SAS MDL – Midline SAS spinning disk.

• SSD SAS – SAS solid-state disk.

Size Shows the storage capacity of the disk.

Usage Shows how the disk is being used:

• LINEAR POOL – The disk is part of a linear pool.

• DEDICATED SP – The disk is a dedicated spare for a linear disk group.

• VIRTUAL POOL – The disk is part of a virtual pool.

• LEFTOVR – The disk is leftover.

• FAILED – The disk is unusable and must be replaced. Reasons for this status include: excessive media

errors, SMART error, disk hardware failure, or unsupported disk.

Disk Group Shows the disk group that contains the disk.

Status Shows the status of the disk:

• Up – The disk is present and is properly communicating with the expander.

• Spun Down – The disk is present and has been spun down by the DSD feature.

• Warning – The disk is present but the system is having communication problems with the disk LED

processor. For disk and midplane types where this processor also controls power to the disk, power-on

failure will result in Error status.

• Unrecoverable – The disk is present but has unrecoverable errors.

To see more information about a disk in a disk group, select the pool for the disk group in the pools table, select the disk group in the

Related Disk Groups table, and then hover the cursor over the disk in the Related Disks table. The Disk Information panel opens and

displays detailed information about the disk.

Working in the Pools topic