Managing Physical Drives : Start and Stop Locating a Drive

Start and Stop Locating a Drive

If the physical drives are in a disk enclosure, you can identify them by making their LEDs blink. Perform the following steps to identify the physical drives:

1.

Navigate to the Controller dashboard, click a drive group name (for example, DG_1). Click the icon corresponding to a drive group to display its contents.

The virtual drives and physical drives associated with the selected drive group appear.

2.

Click the Physical Drive tab, and select a drive that you want to locate in the disk enclosure.

3.

Select Actions > Start Locating.

The LEDs on the physical drives start blinking.

4.

To stop the LEDs from blinking, select Actions > Stop Locating.