User`s manual

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Chapter 9: MegaRAID Window and Menus
Physical/Logical View Panel
The left panel of the MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER window displays either the Physical
view or the Logical view of the system and the devices in it, depending on which tab is
selected.
• The Physical view shows the hierarchy of physical devices in the system. At the top
of the hierarchy is the system itself. One or more controllers are installed in the
system. Each controller has one or more ports. Disk drives and other devices are
attached to the ports.
• The Logical view shows the hierarchy of controllers, virtual disks, and disk groups
that are defined on the system. (Physical drives also appear in the Logical view, so
you can see which physical drives are used by each virtual disk.)
The following icons in the left panel represent the controllers, disk drives, and other
devices:
•System
• Controller
•Port
• Array
• Virtual disk
• Physical drive
A red circle to the right of an icon indicates that the device has failed.
A yellow circle to the right of an icon indicates that a device is running in a degraded
state.
Properties/Operations/Graphical View Panel
The right panel of the MEGARAID STORAGE MANAGER window has either two or three
tabs, depending on what kind of device is selected in the left panel.
• The P
ROPERTIES tab displays information about the selected device. For example, if
a controller icon is selected in the left panel, the P
ROPERTIES tab lists information
such as the controller name and the device port count.
• The O
PERATIONS tab lists the operations that can be performed on the device that is
selected in the left panel. Some types of devices, such as arrays and ports, do not
have operations associated with them.
• The G
RAPHICAL VIEW tab can be selected in the right panel if a physical drive or
virtual disk is selected in the left panel. In graphical view, the device’s storage
capacity is color coded according to the legend shown on the screen. For example,
on a physical drive configured space is blue, available space is white, and reserved
space is red.