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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 30, 2017

Improve Visibility of TS7700 DDM Status, proactively report the status of DDM failures, availabliuty of spares and rebuilds.

Provide the ability for customers to inquire on DDM status within a TS7700 complex through the TS7700 GUI. In specific the ability to see the status of all drives, how many spares are within a RAID group and in particular the status of any RAID rebuilds either in progress or queued.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Dec 7, 2017

    A task was added to the Management Interface in Release 4.1 to show whenever there is a failed DDM, to show rebuild/copyback information including the spare drive being used, what pool/array, progress and estimated completion time. This applies to TS7720s using CS9 disk controllers, TS7740s using CC9 disk controllers, and TS7760s using CSA disk controllers.