Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt)The Physical Disk Management screen (PD Mgmt) displays physical disk information and action menus.The screen displays physical disk IDs, vendor names, disk size, type, state, and disk group (DG). You cansort the list of physical disks based on the headings. You can perform several actions on the physicaldisks, including the following:• Rebuilding physical disks• Performing the Replace Member operation• Setting the LED to blink• Making a disk online or offline (unaffiliated with a disk group)• Creating global hot spares• Removing dedicated hot spares or global hot sparesThe PD Mgmt screen also displays several physical disk properties as shown in the following table.Table 7. Information on the Physical Disk Management ScreenInformation Displayed in Left Panel Supported Information Displayed in Right PanelPhysical Disk:• Disk ID• Protocol type• Capacity (GB)• Physical Disk State• Disk Group• Vendor• Security Property of Physical Disk• Encryption Capable• Product ID• Firmware Revision• Disk Write Cache• S.M.A.R.T state• Physical Disk operation• Max Device Link Rate• Negotiated Link Rate• Dell Certified DiskPhysical Disk ActionsThe following table describes the actions you can perform on physical disks. For procedures that can beused to perform the actions, see Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt).Table 8. Physical Disk ActionsAction DescriptionRebuild Regenerates all data to a replacement disk in a redundant virtual disk (RAID level1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60) after a disk failure. A disk rebuild normally occurs withoutinterrupting normal operations on the affected virtual disk.Replace Member Replaces the disk in the virtual disk with another disk that can be selected.LED Blinking Indicates when physical disks are being used to create a virtual disk. You canchoose to start or stop the LED blinking.Force Online Changes the state of the selected physical disk to online.Force Offline Changes the state of the selected physical disk so that it is no longer part of avirtual disk.55
