Managing Virtual Drives : Viewing Virtual Drive Properties

Viewing Virtual Drive Properties

Select a virtual drive from a drive group in the controller dashboard to view its properties.

Table 8. Virtual Drive Properties

Property

Description

MegaRAID

iMegaRAID

Initiator- Target

Status

The current status of the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

No

Read Policy

The read cache policy for the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

No

Write Policy

The write cache policy for the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

No

IO Policy

The input/output policy for the virtual drive. The following options are available:

Yes

Yes

No

Host Access Policy

NOTE  This property appears only if the controller supports High Availability DAS.

Indicates whether or not the virtual drive is shared between the servers in a cluster. The values for this property are Shared, Exclusive, and Exclusive to Peer Controller.

No

No

No

Peer Has No Access

NOTE  This property appears only if the controller supports High Availability DAS.

Indicates whether the peer controller has access to the shared virtual drive. This property appears only if the virtual drive is shared.

No

No

No

Access Policy

The access policy for the virtual drive. The following options are available:

The Hidden policy is applicable for only hidden VDs. No other access policies will be applicable once you select Hidden as the access policy.

Yes

Yes

No

Drive Cache

The virtual drive cache setting. The following possible options are available:

Yes

Yes

No

Data Protection

Indicates if data protection feature is enabled for the virtual drive.

Yes

Yes

No

SSD Caching

Indicates if SSD caching is enabled.

Yes

Yes

No