Startup and Main Menu : MegaRAID Storage Manager Main Menu : Dashboard, Physical View, and Logical View

Dashboard, Physical View, and Logical View

The left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window shows the Dashboard view, the Physical view, or the Logical view of the system and the attached devices, depending on which tab is selected.

The Dashboard view shows an overview of the system and covers the following features.

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The properties of the virtual drives and the physical drives

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The total capacity

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The MegaRAID Storage Manager features and their status (enabled or disabled)

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The actions you can perform, such as creating a virtual drive and updating the firmware

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Links to the online help

The following three figures show the Dashboard views.

Figure 11. Dashboard View for IR

Figure 12. Dashboard View for the IT Controller

NOTE  All references to virtual drives are removed in the IT controller because it does not support RAID action.

The Physical view shows the hierarchy of physical devices in the system, as the following figures shows. At the top of the hierarchy is the system, followed by the controller and the backplane. One or more controllers are installed in the system. The controller label identifies the controller, such as the Eval Board SAS 2008-8i controller, so that you can easily differentiate among multiple controllers. Each controller has one or more ports. Drives and other devices are attached to the ports. The properties for each item appear in the right panel of the screen.

Figure 13. Physical View for the IR Host

Figure 14. Physical View for the IT Controller

The Logical view shows the hierarchy of controllers, virtual drives, drives, and drive groups that make up the virtual drives, as the following figures shows. The properties for these components appear in the right panel.

Figure 15. Logical View for the IR Host

Figure 16. Logical View for the IT Controller Host