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You can use the Manage drives tab in the Grid Manager to perform troubleshooting and maintenance tasks on the drives in the SGF6112 appliance.
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If you have an SGF6112 appliance and either the Storage appliance administrator or Root access permission, a Manage drives tab appears on the appliance details page.
The Manage drives tab contains the following views:
- Layout
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Layout of data storage drives in the appliance. Select a drive to view drive details.
- Table
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Lists information for each drive. Select a drive to view drive details.
- Drive details
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Summary for each drive. Select the appropriate task button, as described in the steps below.
Turn locator light on or off
To physically locate a drive in the appliance:
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From the Grid Manager, select NODES > data center.
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Select appliance storage node > Manage drives > Layout > drive.
The drive details panel appears.
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Select Turn locator light on.
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A light bulb icon
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An amber LED blinks on the physical drive.
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When you want to turn off the locator light, select Turn locator light off.
Logically replace drive
If a drive in the storage appliance needs to be rebuilt or reinitialized:
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From the Grid Manager, select NODES > data center.
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Select appliance storage node > Manage drives > Layout > drive.
The drive details panel appears.
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Select Logically replace.
On the drive details panel, the drive's status indicates Rebuilding. Rebuilding a drive could take up to 5 minutes.
Fail drive
For troubleshooting, you can manually "fail" a drive that you suspect is faulty. The system will then run without that drive.
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From the Grid Manager, select NODES > data center.
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Select appliance storage node > Manage drives > Layout > drive.
The drive details panel appears.
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Select Fail drive.
After you fail a drive, you must either physically replace the drive or logically replace the drive.