Learn About Using the Physical Tab

The Physical tab in the Array Management Window contains two panes: the Physical pane and the Properties pane.


Note:

You can resize either pane by dragging the splitter bar, located between the two panes, to the right or to the left.

Physical Pane

The Physical pane provides a view of the hardware components in a storage array, including their status. You can right-click a hardware component to open a pop-up menu that contains the applicable actions for that component.


Note:

The orientation of the Physical pane is determined by the actual layout of the storage array. For example, if the storage array has horizontal drive trays, the storage management software shows horizontal drive trays in the Physical pane.

Controller Status

The status of each controller is indicated by an icon in the Physical pane. This table describes the various controller icons.

Controller status icons
Icon Status
Online, Optimal
Offline
Data Transfer Disabled
Service Mode
Slot Empty
Needs Attention (if applicable for your hardware model)
Suspended (if applicable for your hardware model)

View Tray Components

The View Tray Components command on each tray shows the status of the secondary components within the tray, such as power supplies, fans, and temperature sensors.

Drive Trays

For each drive tray that is attached to the storage array, a drive tray appears in the Physical pane. If your storage array contains different media types or different interface types, a drive type icon appears to indicate the type of drives in the drive tray. This table describes the different drive type icons that might appear.

Drive Media Type Icons
Icon Status
This drive tray contains only hard disk drives.
This drive tray contains only Solid State Disks (SSDs).
Drive Interface Type Icons
Icon Status
This drive tray contains only Fibre Channel drives.
This drive tray contains only SafeStore® Encryption Services (SES) security-capable drives.
This drive tray contains only Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives.
This drive tray contains only Serial ATA (SATA) drives.

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