Channel Protection

When creating logical drives from unconfigured capacity, the storage management software displays either Yes or No in the Channel Protection column for each array candidate.

In a SCSI environment, whether or not the array candidate has channel protection depends on the RAID level of the array and how many drives are present on any single drive channel. For example, a RAID 5 array would not have channel protection if more than one drive was present on a single drive channel.

In a Fibre Channel environment, channel protection is usually present for any array candidate because when the Storage Subsystem is properly cabled there are two redundant Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops for each drive.