Viewing Standard Logical Drive Properties

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Use the Logical Drive Properties dialog to view basic information about a standard logical drive . The progress of the modification operation is displayed at the bottom of the dialog.

If the Remote Mirroring premium feature is enabled and you have selected a primary logical drive or a secondary logical drive , then a Mirroring tab is available on this dialog that shows mirroring-related information.

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How to View Standard Logical Drive Properties How to View Mirroring Properties
How to View the Progress of a Modification Operation How to View Synchronization Progress

How to View Standard Logical Drive Properties

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From the Subsystem Management Window, select a standard logical drive from the Logical View. Then, select either the Logical Drive >> Properties pull-down menu option, or Properties from the right-mouse pop-up menu.

Result: The Logical Drive Properties dialog is displayed.

Properties displayed include:

  • Logical Drive name
  • World wide name
  • Controller ownership
  • Capacity
  • RAID level
  • Modification priority
  • Read and write cache settings
  • Cache read ahead multiplier
  • Media scan settings

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Select Close to exit the dialog.

How to View the Progress of a Modification Operation

The progress bar at the bottom of the Logical Drive Properties dialog displays the progress of an operation.

You can view the progress of the following operations:

Important: The storage management software cannot obtain progress information from the storage subsystem controllers if the network management connection to the controllers is down or if the storage subsystem is partially managed. For more information on a partially managed storage subsystem or an unresponsive controller or storage subsystem condition, see the Enterprise Management Window Help.

How to View Mirroring Properties

Notes: Mirroring properties are only available if you have enabled the Remote Mirroring premium feature and if you first selected either a primary or secondary logical drive in the Logical View. If you choose an unresponsive or non-optimal logical drive, the Mirroring tab will be unavailable.

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From the Logical Drive Properties dialog, select the Mirroring tab.

Result: The Mirroring information is displayed. The properties displayed include:

  • Role (primary or secondary)
  • Mirror Status (Synchronized , Synchronization in Progress , or Unsynchronized ) (not displayed for remote secondary logical drives)
  • Actual/usable capacity
  • Synchronization priority: Lowest, low, medium, high, highest (not displayed for secondary logical drives, local or remote)

If you have selected a secondary logical drive the following properties will display:

  • (Primary) logical drive: user label of the remote primary logical drive
  • (Primary) World-wide Name (WWN): World Wide Name (WWN) of the remote primary logical drive
  • (Primary) storage subsystem: WWN of the remote storage subsystem containing the primary logical drive

If you have selected a primary logical drive the following properties will display:

  • (Secondary) logical drive: user label of the remote secondary logical drive
  • (Secondary) World-wide Name (WWN): WWN of the remote secondary logical drive
  • (Secondary) storage subsystem: WWN of the remote storage subsystem containing the secondary logical drive

Note: if the remote logical drive in the mirrored pair is in an Unresponsive state, the following fields will display in place of the fields shown above:

  • Unresponsive remote logical drive : user label of the remote logical drive, from last known data in the cache
  • Unresponsive remote logical drive world-wide name (WWN): WWN of the remote logical drive, from last known data in the cache
  • Unresponsive remote storage subsystem: WWN of the remote storage subsystem, from last known data in the cache

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Select Close to exit the dialog.

How to View Synchronization Progress

The progress bar at the bottom of the Mirroring tab of the Logical Drive Properties dialog displays the progress of a full synchronization .

Note: The Synchronization progress bar displays for all local logical drives, but not for remote logical drives, if the logical drive is currently in the process of synchronizing.

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