Managing Virtual Drives : Viewing Virtual Drive Properties

Viewing Virtual Drive Properties

Select a virtual drive from a drive group in the controller dashboard to view its properties.

The following figure and table describe the virtual drive properties.

Table 7. Virtual Drive Properties

Property

Description

MegaRAID

Syncro (High Availability DAS)

iMegaRAID

Software RAID

Integrated RAID

Initiator-Target

Status

The current status of the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Read Policy

The read cache policy for the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Write Policy

The write cache policy for the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

IO Policy

The input/output policy for the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Host Access Policy

NOTE  This property appears only if the controller supports Hight Availability DAS.

Indicates whether or not the virtual drive is shared between the servers in a cluster. The values for this property are Shared, Exclusive, and Exclusive to Peer Controller.

N/A

Yes

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Peer Has No Access

NOTE  This property appears only if the controller supports Hight Availability DAS.

Indicates whether the peer controller has access to the shared virtual drive. This property appears only if the virtual drive is shared.

N/A

Yes

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Access Policy

The access policy for the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Drive Cache

The virtual drive cache setting. The following possible options are available:

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Data Protection

Indicates if data protection feature is enabled for the virtual drive.

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

SSD Caching

Indicates if SSD caching is enabled.

Yes

Yes

Yes

N/A

Yes

N/A