Promise Technology Pegasus R6 User Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
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Chapter 3: Management with the Promise Utility, cont.
Managing Physical Drives, cont.
Making Physical Drive SMART Log Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Clearing a Stale or a PFA Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Forcing a Physical Drive Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Running Media Patrol on your Physical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Managing Disk Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Viewing a List of Disk Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Viewing Disk Array Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Creating a Disk Array Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Creating a Disk Array and Logical Drive with the Wizard . . . . .47
Making Disk Array Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Locating a Disk Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Deleting a Disk Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Preparing a Disk Array for Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Rebuilding a Disk Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Managing Logical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Viewing a List of Logical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Viewing Logical Drive Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Viewing Logical Drive Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Making Logical Drive Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Viewing Logical Drive Check Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
Creating a Logical Drive Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Formatting your Logical Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Locating a Logical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Deleting a Logical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Initializing a Logical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Redundancy Check on a Logical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Migrating a Logical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Running PDM on a Logical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Managing Spare Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Viewing a List of Spare Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Viewing Spare Drive Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Creating a Spare Drive Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Making Spare Drive Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Running Spare Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Deleting a Spare Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Running a Transition on a Spare Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Promise Technology Pegasus R6 Specifications

General

Brand	Promise Technology
Model	Pegasus R6
Category	Storage
Language	English