Users Guide

Battery — Available Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 106
Starting A Learn Cycle................................................................................................................................................... 106
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle.................................................................................................................................107
Initiating The Battery Delay Learn Cycle....................................................................................................................107
Delay The Battery Learn Cycle..................................................................................................................................... 107
To Locate Delay Learn Cycle In Storage Management.......................................................................................... 107
Chapter 14: Physical Disks Or Physical Devices.......................................................................... 108
Guidelines To Replace A Physical Disk Or Physical Device................................................................................... 108
Adding A New Disk To The System.............................................................................................................................108
For SAS Controllers...................................................................................................................................................108
Replacing A Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts............................................................................................... 109
Disk Is Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk.............................................................................................................109
Disk Is Not Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk.....................................................................................................109
Other Disk Procedures................................................................................................................................................... 109
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties............................................................................................................. 110
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks...................................................................................................................... 114
Physical Disk Tasks.......................................................................................................................................................... 114
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk ...............................................................................................................114
Removing Dead Segments....................................................................................................................................... 114
Preparing To Remove................................................................................................................................................ 115
Rebuilding Data........................................................................................................................................................... 115
Canceling A Rebuild................................................................................................................................................... 115
Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare......................................................................................................115
Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline.........................................................................................................116
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear.......................................................................................... 116
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare.................................................................................................................................117
Performing Cryptographic Erase............................................................................................................................ 117
Exporting The Log For PERC NVMe Drives.........................................................................................................118
Convert To RAID Capable Disk................................................................................................................................119
Convert To Non-RAID Disk...................................................................................................................................... 119
Chapter 15: Virtual Disks............................................................................................................120
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks...........................................................................................................120
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers..........................................................................................................121
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, S130, And S300 Controllers........................................ 122
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux................................................................................... 122
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk..........................................................................................................122
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller............................................................................................................... 123
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size......................................................................................................... 123
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks.......................................................................................................................... 123
Creating Virtual Disks..................................................................................................................................................... 123
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks...................................................................................................................124
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion...................... 124
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks........................................................................................... 125
Rebuilding Redundant Information.............................................................................................................................. 125
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management........................................................................................................125
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks..............................................................................................................126
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks................................................................................................................................127
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