Chapter 3: Management with the Promise Utility
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Managing Logical Drives
Logical drive management includes:
• Viewing a List of Logical Drives (below)
• Viewing Logical Drive Information (page 58)
• Viewing Logical Drive Statistics (page 59)
• Making Logical Drive Settings (page 59)
• Viewing Logical Drive Check Tables (page 60)
• Creating a Logical Drive Manually (page 61)
• Formatting your Logical Drives (page 62)
• Locating a Logical Drive (page 62)
• Deleting a Logical Drive (page 63)
• Initializing a Logical Drive (page 63)
• Redundancy Check on a Logical Drive (page 64)
• Migrating a Logical Drive (page 65)
• Running PDM on a Logical Drive (page 66)
Viewing a List of Logical Drives
To view a list of logical drives, do one of the following actions:
• Click the Logical Drive icon.
• From the Storage menu, choose Logical Drive.
The list of logical drives appears. Logical drive information includes:
• ID – LD0, LD1, etc.
• Alias – If assigned.
• Status – = Normal. = Critical. = Offline.
• Capacity – Data capacity of the logical drive.
• RAID Level – Set when the logical drive was created.
• Stripe – Set when the logical drive was created.
• Cache Policy – Read cache and Write cache settings.
• Array ID – ID number of the disk array where this logical drive was
created.