Learn About Using the Logical/Physical Tab

The Logical/Physical tab in the Subsystem Management Window (SMW) contains two panes: the Logical pane and the Physical pane.


Note:

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

Logical Pane

The Logical pane provides a tree-structured view of the logical nodes. Click the plus (+) sign or the minus (-) sign adjacent to a node to expand or collapse the view. You can right-click a node to open a pop-up menu that contains the applicable actions for that node.

Nodes in the Logical Pane

The , or root node, has the types of child nodes shown in Table 53 .

Nodes in the Logical Pane

Child Nodes of the Root Node Description of the Child Nodes
Unconfigured Capacity

This node represents the storage subsystem capacity that is not configured into an array.

Note – Multiple Unconfigured Capacity nodes might appear if your storage subsystem contains mixed Each disk drive type has an associated Unconfigured Capacity node shown under the Total Unconfigured Capacity node if are available in the expansion drawer.

Array This node has two types of child nodes:
  • Logical drive – This node represents a configured and defined logical drive. Multiple Logical Drive nodes can exist under an Array node. See “Types of Logical Drives” for a description of these logical drives.
  • Free Capacity – This node represents a region of capacity that you can use to create one or more new logical drives within the array. Multiple Free Capacity nodes can exist under an Array node.

Types of Logical Drives

These types of logical drives appear under the Array node:

Physical Pane

The Physical pane provides this information:

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 subsystem. For example, if the storage subsystem has horizontal disk drives, the storage management software shows horizontal disk drives in the Physical pane.

Controller Status

The status of each controller is indicated by an icon in the Physical pane. Table 54 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)

Association

View Button

The View button on each enclosure shows the status of the secondary components within the enclosure.

Expansion Drawers

For each expansion drawer that is attached to the storage subsystem, a expansion drawer appears in the Physical pane. If your storage subsystem contains mixed disk drive types, a disk drive type icon appears on the left of the expansion drawer to indicate the type of disk drives in the expansion drawer. Table 55 describes the different disk drive type icons that might appear.

Disk Drive Type Icons

Icon Status
This expansion drawer contains only Fibre Channel disk drives.
This expansion drawer contains only Full Disk Encryption (FDE) security-capable disk drives.
This expansion drawer contains only Serial Attached SCSI disk drives.
This expansion drawer contains only Serial ATA disk drives.

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