User's Manual

246 Virtual Disks
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard (Step 1 of 2)
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features .
The Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard calculates an appropriate virtual
disk configuration based on the available space and controller considerations.
When using the Express Wizard, you select the RAID level and size for the
virtual disk. The wizard selects a recommended disk configuration for you
that matches your RAID and size selection.
Before creating a virtual disk, you should be familiar with the information in
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks. You may also want to review
Choosing RAID Levels and Concatenation .
Device Name This property displays the operating system device name for
this object.
State This property displays the current status of the virtual disk on
which the partition is created.
Ta s ks This property displays the available tasks for the virtual disk
partition. Possible tasks are: Enabling Fluid Cache on Virtual
Disk Partitions and Disabling Fluid Cache on Virtual Disk
Partitions
.
Size This property displays the total capacity of the virtual disk.
The algorithm for calculating the virtual disk size rounds a
value of 0.005 or less down to 0.00 and a value between 0.006
and 0.009 up to 0.01. For example, a virtual disk size of
819.725 is rounded down to 819.72. A virtual disk size of
819.726 is rounded up to 819.73.
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.
Not Enabled— The Fluid Cache is not enabled.
Disabling—In this transient state, the cache removal from the
virtual disk is in process.
Property Definition