5 Drives Overview and Analysis Screens

The Drives – Overview and Drives – Analysis screens show attributes related to drives. There is one set of attributes for StorageTek enterprise drives and a slightly different set for LTO drives.

The drive attributes are organized into the following sections.

• "Title"

• "Drive"

• "Media"

• "Most Recent Exchange"

• "Drive Activity Counts (Last 30 Days)"

• "Additional Exchange Information for Enterprise Drives"

• "Additional Exchange Information for LTO Drives"

• "Drive Location"

• "Library Complex"

• "Media Validation Information for Enterprise Drives"

• "User-Provided Information"

Drives Overview Detail Views

Detail for Enterprise Drives (part 1)

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Detail for Enterprise Drives (part 2)

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Detail for LTO Drives (part 1)

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Detail for LTO Drives (part 2)

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Title

Values for these attributes are assigned when STA first starts tracking the drive.

• Drive

• Monitored since

Drive

Information about the drive properties.

• Drive Serial Number

• Drive Tray Serial Number

• Drive WWNN

• Drive Type

• Drive Health

• Drive Health Trend

• Last Drive Message

• Drive WWPN (Port A)

• Port Speed (Port A)

• Drive WWPN (Port B)

• Port Speed (Port B)

• Drive Model

• Drive Manufacturer

• Encryption Capable

• Drive Interface

• Drive Properties Updated

• Drive Firmware Version

• STA Start Tracking

• STA Stop Tracking

Media

Details about the media used in the drive's most recent exchange that occurred during or before this aggregation period.

• Volume Serial Number

• Media Manufacturer Serial Number

• Media Health

• WORM/VolSafe Media

• Cleaning Media

Most Recent Exchange

Details about the drive's most recent exchange that occurred during or before this aggregation period.

• Exchange Start

• Exchange Elapsed Time

• Exchange Mount Time

• Mount R/W MB/sec

• Exchange Recording Technique

• Drive Exchange Status

• Exchange Tape Alerts – Severe

• Exchange Tape Alerts – Warning

• Exchange Tape Alerts – Info

• Data Compression Ratio

• Alert: Drive Load Limit

• Drive Suspicion Level

• Exchange Drive Cleaning Required

• Meters Between 2 Most Recent Cleans

• Meters since Last Clean

• Drive Lifetime Cleans

• Drive Lifetime Loads

• Drive Lifetime Meters

• Drive Lifetime Power Hours

Drive Activity Counts (Last 30 Days)

Total activity counts for the drive over the last 30 days. These values are updated with each completed exchange involving the drive.

• % Drive Utilization

• Drive Dismounts

• Drive SNMP Trap Count

• Drive Alert Count

• Dismounts With Errors

• Cleans

• MB Read

• MB Write

• MB R/W

• MB Sent

• MB Received

• Avg Mount Read MB/sec

• Avg Mount Write MB/sec

• Avg Mount R/W MB/sec

• Avg Mount Read MB

• Avg Mount Write MB

• Avg Mount R/W MB

Additional Exchange Information for Enterprise Drives

Additional details about the drive's most recent exchange. This section appears only for StorageTek enterprise drives, such as 9840D or T10000C.

• Exchange FSC

• Exchange DSC

• Exchange Write Inefficient

• Exchange Read Marginal

• Exchange Write Efficiency

• Exchange Read Margin

• Time Spent Reading

• Time Spent Writing

• Time Spent R/W

• Read MB/sec

• Write MB/sec

• R/W MB/sec

• Read Mount Ratio

• Write Mount Ratio

• R/W Mount Ratio

• Exchange Encryption Used

Additional Exchange Information for LTO Drives

Additional details about the drive's most recent exchange. This section appears only for LTO drives.

• Alert: Drive Diagnostics Required

• Drive Lifetime Hours in Motion

• IBM Media Efficiency

• IBM Drive Efficiency

• HP Device Status

Drive Location

Details about the location of the drive within the library. These attributes are updated whenever a library data collection is performed.

• Drive Library Name

• Drive Library Serial Number

• Drive Library Number

• Drive Rail Number

• Drive Physical Address

• Drive HLI Address

• Drive SCSI Element ID

Library Complex

Information about the library complex where the drive is located, as of the last completed library data collection.

• Library Complex Name

• Library Model

• Partition Type

• Partition Name

• Partition Number

Media Validation Information for Enterprise Drives

Information about media validation and drive calibration and qualification operations for this drive. This section appears only for drives that have been assigned to the media validation drive pool through SL Console.

• MV Calibration Attempts

• MV Calibration State

• MV Calibration Information

• MV Last Calibration DQI

• MV Calibration Starting Suspicion

• MV Drive Last Calibrated

• MV Last Activity

• MV Last Recommendation

• MV Drive Allocated

• MV Drive Capable

• MV Drive Available

• MV Drive In Use

• MV Drive Reserved

• MV Last Qualification Start

• MV Primary Qualification Start

• MV Secondary Qualification Start

User-Provided Information

• Logical Group(s)

• Annotation History