Displaying RAID Group Properties

This help page provides information to guide you through the procedure to display the properties of a RAID group. It contains the following topics:

To display the properties of all of the RAID groups assigned to an array:

In the Array List window, select an array of interest and click Show and Configure Array..
In the Arrays tree, expand the Groups menu and select RAID Groups. The RAID Groups window is displayed. It contains a table that lists the RAID groups that exist for the array. The following data for each RAID group is included in the table:

To display detailed data for a single RAID group:

In the RAID Groups window, click the name of the RAID group you are interested in. The properties window for the selected RAID group is displayed. The window should look similar to the following illustration.

The Summary section of the RAID Group Window provides the following information:

Feature	Description
RAID Group	This is the name of the displayed RAID group. The default name is RG-000.) Note: The Simple Modular Storage System can have only one RAID group.
RAID level	This is the number of the RAID level (1-6) that has been assigned to the RAID group.
Parity Group	This is the name of the parity group that has been assigned
Number of Parity Groups	This is the number of parity groups that have been assigned to the RAID group (min - 1, max = ? )
Capacity	This field displays both the total capacity of the hard drive(s) in the RAID group and the free space left on the drive(s).
Drive Type	This field displays the type of drive(s) contained in the RAID group. It can be either SAS or SATA. Both types cannot be contained in the same RAID group.