Users Guide
Information Displayed in Left Panel Supported Information Displayed in Right Panel
• Capacity (GB)
• Physical Disk State
• Disk Group
• Vendor
• Firmware Revision
• Disk Write Cache
• S.M.A.R.T state
• Physical Disk operation
• Max Device Link Rate
• Negotiated Link Rate
• Dell Certied Disk (512 or 4 KB sector drives)
Physical disk actions
The following table describes the actions you can perform on physical disks. For procedures that can be used to perform the actions, see
Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt).
Table 11. Physical disk actions
Action Description
Rebuild Regenerates all data to a replacement disk in a redundant virtual disk (RAID level 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60)
after a disk failure. A disk rebuild normally occurs without interrupting normal operations on the aected
virtual disk.
Replace Member Replaces the disk in the virtual disk with another disk that can be selected.
LED Blinking Indicates when physical disks are being used to create a virtual disk. You can choose to start or stop the
LED blinking.
Force Online Changes the state of the selected physical disk to online.
Force Oine Changes the state of the selected physical disk so that it is no longer part of a virtual disk.
Make Global HS
Designates the selected physical disk as a global hot spare. A global hot spare is part of a pool for all
virtual disks controlled by the controller.
Remove HS Removes a dedicated hot spare from its disk group or a global hot spare from the global pool of hot
spares.
Rebuild
Select Rebuild to rebuild one or more failed physical disks. For information on performing a physical disk rebuild, see Performing A Manual
Rebuild Of An Individual Physical Disk.
Several of the controller conguration settings and the virtual disk settings aect the actual rate of rebuild. The factors include the rebuild
rate setting, virtual disk stripe size, virtual disk read policy, virtual disk write policy, and the amount of workload placed on the storage
subsystem. For information on getting the best rebuild performance from your RAID controller, see the documentation at Dell.com/
storagecontrollermanuals.
The listed rates in the following table were taken during single disk failure with no I/O. Rates vary depending on type, speed and number of
hard drives present in array; as well as which controller model and enclosure conguration are being used.
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