Monitoring Virtual Drives

When the MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the status of all virtual drives. If a virtual drive is operating normally, the icon looks like this: . Color-coded circles appears next to the icon to indicate the following:

Green

The server is operating correctly.

Yellow

The server is running in a partially degraded state (for example, if a drive has failed); the data is still safe, but data could be lost if another drive fails.

Orange

The server is running in a degraded state.

Red

The server storage configuration has failed, and data has been lost.

When you select the Logical tab, the panel on the left shows which drives are used by each virtual drive. The same drive can be used by multiple virtual drives.

To display complete virtual drive information, click the Logical tab in the left panel, and select a virtual drive icon in the left panel. The properties appear in the right panel. The RAID level, stripe size, and access policy of the virtual drive are set when the virtual drive is configured.

If the drives in the virtual drive are in an enclosure, you can identify them by making their LEDs blink. Perform these steps:

1.	Click the virtual drive icon in the left panel.

2.	Select Go To > Virtual Drive > Start Locating Virtual Drive. Or Right-click a virtual drive and select Start Locating Virtual Drive from the menu.

The LEDs on the drives in the virtual drive start blinking (except hot spare drives).

3.	To stop the LEDs from blinking, click Go To > Virtual Drive > Stop Locating Virtual Drive.