Limit the drive view
If the storage array includes drives with different types of physical and logical attributes, the Hardware page provides filter fields that help you limit the drive view and locate specific drives.
Turn on drive locator light
From the Hardware page, you can turn on the locator light to find the physical location of a drive in the storage array.
View drive status and settings
You can view status and settings for the drives, such as the media type, interface type, and capacity.
Replace drive logically If a drive fails or you want to replace it for any other reason, and you have an unassigned drive in your storage array, you can logically replace the failed drive with the unassigned drive. If you do not have an unassigned drive, you can physically replace the drive instead.
Reconstruct drive manually
Drive reconstruction normally starts automatically after you replace a drive. If drive reconstruction does not start automatically, you can start reconstruction manually.
Initialize (format) drive
If you move assigned drives from one storage array to another, you must initialize (format) the drives before they can be used in the new storage array.
Fail drive
If instructed to do so, you can manually fail a drive.
Assign hot spares
You can assign a hot spare as a standby drive for additional data protection in RAID 1, RAID 5, or RAID 6 volume groups. If a drive fails in one of these volume groups, the controller reconstructs data from the failed drive to the hot spare.
Erase secure-enabled drive
You can erase a secure-enabled drive so it can be reused in another volume group, pool, SSD cache, or in another storage array. This procedure resets the drive's security attributes and ensures that the data cannot be read again.
Unlock or reset locked NVMe drives
If you insert one or more locked NVMe drives into a storage array, you can unlock the drive data by adding the security key file associated with the drives. If you do not have a security key, you can perform a reset on each locked NVMe drive by entering its Physical Security ID (PSID) to reset its security attributes and erase the drive data.
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