Using the Subsystem Management Window

The Subsystem Management Window has two views, a Logical View and a Physical View. To repartition the window, drag the splitter bar that divides the two views in the desired direction.

About the Logical View

The Logical View has five node types, as illustrated in the graphic below:

Node Description
Storage Subsystem This is the root node of the Logical View tree. The icon shown reflects the current Storage Subsystem status, as described below.

Optimal Needs Attention
Fixing Unresponsive
Array This node represents a defined array in the Storage Subsystem. Child nodes include logical drive nodes and free capacity nodes. The icon shown reflects the status (online or offline) of the array, as shown below.

Online Offline
Logical Drive This node represents a defined logical drive on the array represented by the parent array node. The icon shown reflects the current logical drive status.

 Optimal Degraded
Operation in Progress  Failed
Offline    
Free Capacity This node represents a contiguous chunk of capacity that is present on drives included in an array, but has not been used to create logical drives. The capacity shown is RAID-factored to the defined RAID level of the array. There are no status icons associated with this node.

Note: If there is non-contiguous free capacity on the array, then there will be multiple free capacity nodes.
Unconfigured Capacity This node represents Storage Subsystem capacity that has not been used to create arrays and logical drives. The capacity shown reflects the raw capacity of all unassigned drives. There are no status icons associated with this node.

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About the Physical View

The Physical View displays four enclosure types, two are illustrated in the graphic below.



Note: The orientation (vertical or horizontal) of the Physical View is determined by the controller.
The Physical View displays four enclosure types:

Enclosure Type Description
Controller Enclosure Displays either one or two controller slots and a controller enclosure components button.

Note: You can select each controller in the controller enclosure to perform controller management operations.
Drive Enclosure Displays the drives or drive slots in the enclosure and one components button. An empty slot is shown with this icon .

Note: You can select each drive in the drive enclosure to perform drive management operations. Multiple drives can be simultaneously selected in the Physical View.
Combination Enclosure (not shown in the example at left) Contains a representation of both controllers and drives in the same enclosure, and an enclosure components button.
Generic Enclosure (not shown in the example at left) Shown as a number of drive slots, when information about the enclosure type is not received from the controller.

To change the enclosure order in the Physical View, use the Storage Subsystem >> Change Enclosure Order option. See Changing the Enclosure Order.

About the Association Between the Logical and Physical View

Selection of a logical component causes an association icon to be displayed by the selected logical object and the appropriate physical components.