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238 Virtual Disks
Associated Fluid
Cache State
This property displays the associated Fluid Cache state of the
virtual disk. The possible values are
Active— The Fluid Cache disk is active.
Failed—The Fluid Cache has encountered a failure of one or
more components and is no longer functioning.
No— The Fluid Cache is not enabled.
Disabling —In this transient state, the cache removal from
the virtual disk is in process.
Device Name This property displays the operating system device name for
this object.
Bus Protocol This property displays the technology that the physical disks
included in the virtual disk are using. Possible values are:
SCSI—Small Computer System Interface
SAS—Serial Attached SCSI
SATA—Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Media This property displays the media type of the physical disks
present in the virtual disk. The possible values are:
HDD—Hard Disk Drive. A HDD is a non-volatile storage
device which stores digitally-encoded data on rapidly rotating
platters with magnetic surfaces.
SSD—Solid State Drive. An SSD is a data storage device that
uses solid-state memory to store persistent data.
Unknown—Storage Management is unable to determine the
media type of the physical disk.
NOTE: You cannot have a mix of HDD and SSD media on a virtual
disk. Also, you cannot have a mix of SAS and SATA drives on the
virtual disk.
Read Policy This property displays the read policy that the controller is
using for this virtual disk. See
RAID Controller Read, Write,
Cache, and Disk Cache Policy
.
Write Policy This property displays the write policy that the controller is
using for this virtual disk. See RAID Controller Read, Write,
Cache, and Disk Cache Policy
.
Property Definition