RAID Group (RG) Power Saving

This help page provides information to guide you through the procedures to set the power saving for the selected array. It contains the following topics:

Overview    (back to top)

You can set power saving of RAID group from the RAID Group Power Saving window.  The Power Saving feature lowers the disk drive electricity consumption compared with the consumption from normal idling disks by spinning down the drives (stopping the rotation of the disk drives) that configure a RAID group.

 

NOTE: This operation will terminate related host access to the logical units. It is recommend that you properly stop host access prior to performing this command.

Viewing RAID Group Power Saving Information   (back to top)

The RG Power Saving window provides the following information:

 

Item

Description

RAID Group

This is the name of the displayed RAID group.

Power Saving Status

This is the status of power saving or normal (this area provides the following detail information).

  • Spin Up/Down: The spin-up or spin-down status.

  • Command Monitoring: The current monitoring status where host commands are monitored before the drive is spun down.

  • Spin Up/Down Executing: The spin-up/spin-down of a drive is being executed.

  • Recovering: The completion of a failure recovery process is paused.

  • Health Checking: The drives are spinning up due to as a prevention check.

  • Spin Up/Down Failure: The spin-up or spin-down operation failed because of a failure.

 

To open the Power Saving window for the selected array:

  1. From the array tree, click Power Saving. The Power Saving window is displayed.

  2. In the Power Saving window, click the name of the task you would like to perform, either Spin-up or Spin-down. The window for the selected task is displayed.

  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the task.

See Also   (back to top)

The following topics within this help system provide information that may be helpful in understanding the information on this page, and/or may provide additional information that is related, but not required to understand this topic.

  Managing RAID Groups  

  Executing a RAID Group Spin-down

  Executing a RAID Group Spin-up