Making a Drive Online

You can change the state of a physical drive to online. In an online state, the physical drive works normally and is a part of a configured virtual drive.

1.	Navigate to the Controller dashboard, click a drive group name (for example, DG_1). Click the icon corresponding to a drive group to display its contents.

The virtual drives and physical drives associated with the selected drive group appear.

2.	Click the Physical Drive tab, and select a drive which you want to make online.

3.	Select Actions > Make Drive Online.

The drive status changes to Online.