Learn About Using the Logical/Physical View

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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.

Missing Logical Drives

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 is represented by this icon .

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. See Types of Logical Drives, below, for a description of these logical drives and there representative icons.

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.

Types of Logical Drives

There are various types of logical drives shown under the Array node.

About the Physical View

The Physical View is the second pane of the Logical/Physical View. The Physical 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 Components Button

The Components button on each displayed enclosure shows the status of secondary components within the enclosure. For more information, see Viewing the Status of Controller Enclosure Components and Viewing the Status of Drive Enclosure Components on the How To tab.

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