Abstract: A storage system management station includes monitoring software with a GUI. The GUI presents operational status of software, physical devices and interconnecting cabling associated with a logical storage cluster. Graphical representations of physical devices may include line drawings that help to identify the devices and ports to which cabling is connected. Selected types of cabling may be presented in order to simplify the displayed image. An indication of associations between different data center sites and individual physical devices may also be provided. An interface may also be provided for upgrading, enabling, disabling, failing and recovering components. A mapping graphic illustrates the relationship between the virtual-volume and the underlying storage-volume with the LUN ID displayed by the GUI. Multiple clusters can be managed from a single screen.