The Subsystem Management Window Logical/Physical View contains two panes: the Logical View and the Physical View.
About the Logical View
The Logical View, as shown in the following example, is one of two Logical/Physical View panes in the Subsystem Management Window. The Logical View provides a tree-structured view of logical nodes. Click on the plus or minus sign beside the node to expand or collapse the view of its child nodes.
The storage subsystem, or root node , has three types of child nodes.
Child Nodes of the Root Node
Description
Unconfigured Capacity
Represents any storage subsystem capacity that has not been configured into an array.
Array
An Array Node has two possible types of child nodes, as follows:
Child Nodes of the Array Node
Description
Logical Drive
Represents a configured and defined logical drive. There can be multiple Logical Drive nodes under an Array node.
Standard logical drives in an Optimal state are represented by this icon in the Logical View.
Repository logical drives in an Optimal state are represented by this icon in the Logical View.
FlashCopy logical drives, represented in an Optimal state by this icon in the Logical View, are child nodes of their associated base logical drive.
Free Capacity
Represents a region of capacity that can be used for creation of one or more new logical drives within the array. There can be multiple Free Capacity nodes under an Array Node.
Free Capacity nodes are represented by this icon in the Logical View.
Missing Logical Drives Node
This placeholder node, represented by this icon in the Logical View, has child nodes that represent any missing logical drives in the storage subsystem. Each missing logical drive, represented by this icon , is numbered in sequential order by the controller.
About the Physical View
The Physical View is the second pane of the Logical/Physical View. The Physical View:
Provides a view of the physical components in a storage subsystem, including their status
Shows the physical components associated with a selected node in the Logical View
Note: The orientation of the Physical View is determined by actual layout of the controller. For example, if the controller has horizontal drive enclosures, the software will show horizontal drive enclosures in the Physical View.
Association
In the example above:
The blue association dot shown beside Controller A in the Controller Enclosure identifies the current owner of a selected logical drive in the Logical View.
The blue association dots underneath the assigned drives in Drive Enclosure 1 identify the drives associated with a selected logical drive in the Logical View.