Preliminary Information for Working Graphically with the SPARCstorage Array

DiskSuite Tool's Disk View window presents a graphical view of the SPARCstorage Array. When you display the Disk View window, the icon for a SPARCstorage Array controller resembles a fibre channel icon, both on the Disk View canvas and in the Controllers window.

Each tray within the SPARCstorage Array is represented by an "etched-in" frame, with a title showing the tray number. Differences between the SPARCstorage Array 100 and 200 are:

• SPARCstorage Array 100 - Each SCSI bus within the tray (up to two) is shown by a second etched-in frame within the frame showing the tray number. The disks attached to each SCSI bus within the SSA100 tray appear sequentially within the SCSI frame, with no lines connecting them.

  Figure 6-1 shows how the SPARCstorage Array 100 appears in the Disk View window.

Figure 6-1 SPARCstorage Array 100

If one or both of the busses on the tray has no disks, the bus is "stubbed-out" by showing an empty frame. If one or more of the trays have no disks, DiskSuite Tool does not stub-out the tray(s).

• SPARCstorage Array 200 - Just the disks that are within the tray frame are shown, as there is no SCSI bus within the tray. The disks appear sequentially with no lines connecting them.

  If one or more of the trays have no disks, DiskSuite Tool does not stub-out the tray(s).

  Figure 6-2 shows how the SPARCstorage Array 200 appears in the Disk View window.

Figure 6-2 SPARCstorage Array 200

You can also use the Disk View window to display the SPARCstorage Array's unique 12-digit identification number, known as the World Wide Name. The last four digits appear just below the controller icon on the canvas (and on the LCD panel on the SPARCstorage Array itself). You can see the entire number by displaying a controller's Information window.

The Disk View window enables you to check at a glance the status of SPARCstorage Array components, including the battery and fan, and to see if a disk is spun up or down.