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Maintaining Physical Devices
This section describes how to manage the controllers, disk drives, solid state drives, and enclosures in
your storage space.
Viewing Device Properties
Click on any physical device in the Enterprise View then, on the Storage Dashboard, click the Properties
tab to view version numbers, status, model numbers, features, and other information about the device.
The properties listed vary, depending on which type of device you select. The figure below shows the
properties for a controller. For more information about using the Storage Dashboard to monitor the
components in your storage space, see
Viewing Component Status in the Storage Dashboard
on page
90.
Locating Drives in Your Storage Space
You can blink the LEDs on disk drives and SSDs to identify where they are physically located in your
storage space. This table describes how to locate specific devices.
Select...
To Locate...
Disk Drive icon:
A disk drive
Logical Drive icon:
All disk drives included in a
logical drive
maxCache Container icon:
All SSDs in the maxCache
Container
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