MSI X2-109 v1 - Manual (Page 113)

Monitoring Virtual Disks 8-5
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To display a graphical view of a disk drive, click on a drive icon in the
left panel of the MegaRAID Storage Manager window, and click the
Graphical View tab. In Graphical View, the drive’s storage capacity is
color coded according to the legend shown on the screen: configured
space is blue, available space is white, and reserved space is red. When
you select a virtual disk from the drop-down menu, the disk space used
by that virtual disk is displayed in green.
8.4 Monitoring Virtual Disks
When MegaRAID Storage Manager software is running, you can see the
status of all virtual disks. If a virtual disk is operating normally, the icon
looks like this: . If the virtual disk is running in Degraded mode (for
example, if a physical disk has failed) a small yellow circle appears to
the right of the icon: .
When the Logical tab is selected, the left panel of the MegaRAID Storage
Manager window shows which physical disks are used by each virtual
disk. The same physical disk can be used by multiple virtual disks.
To display complete virtual disk information, click the Logical tab in the
left panel, click on a virtual disk icon in the left panel, and click the
Properties tab in the right panel.
Figure 8.3 shows the Properties panel
for a virtual disk.