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5. Running Power Console Plus
This section describes how to run Power Console Plus.
Described below is simple terminology and basic operations.
Drive Status
The statuses of each physical drive shown to the right of the SCSI ID or array are as
follows:
Drive Status Code Description
Online Onln The physical drive works normally. It is part of a
configured logical drive.
Ready READY The physical drive works normally. It is not part of a
configured logical drive and is not a hot spare.
It is sometimes displayed with “Master”, too.
Hot Spare HOTSP The drive is available as a spare drive in case an
online physical drive fails.
Failed Failed The physical drive is out of service because it
failed.
Rebuild Rebuild The physical drive is being rebuilt.
Logical Devices
Logical Devices View displays the configured arrays, logical drives, and hot spares and
global hot spare pool of the current controller.
Click on [Logical View] radio button on Logical Devices View to display the configured
logical drives. Click on [Physical View] to display the configured physical drives.
When you delete the created logical drive, please do [Delete] from the menu which
chooses a logical drive and is displayed by right-click. Be careful not to use it accidentally.
Moreover, when two or more logical drives exist, please delete from the logical drive
created at the end. When it deletes except the last logical drive, the composition
information on an array may break.
Displaying Adapter (Controller) Properties
Click on [Properties] in [Adapter] menu to display the adapter properties as shown in the
figure.
You can view the firmware
version, BIOS version, and
rebuild rate of the current
controller.
You can also view the RAID
level and size of the logical
drive created in the current
controller.