Users Guide

Battery Properties And Tasks....................................................................................................................................... 110
Battery Tasks..................................................................................................................................................................... 111
Battery — Available Tasks..............................................................................................................................................111
Starting A Learn Cycle..................................................................................................................................................... 111
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle................................................................................................................................. 112
Initiating The Battery Delay Learn Cycle.................................................................................................................... 112
Delay The Battery Learn Cycle......................................................................................................................................112
To Locate Delay Learn Cycle In Storage Management........................................................................................... 112
Chapter 14: Physical Disks Or Physical Devices.......................................................................... 113
Guidelines To Replace A Physical Disk Or Physical Device.................................................................................... 113
Adding A New Disk To The System............................................................................................................................. 113
For SAS Controllers....................................................................................................................................................113
Replacing A Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts................................................................................................ 114
Disk Is Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk..............................................................................................................114
Disk Is Not Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk......................................................................................................114
Other Disk Procedures.................................................................................................................................................... 114
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties............................................................................................................. 115
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks...................................................................................................................... 119
Physical Disk Tasks.......................................................................................................................................................... 119
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk ...............................................................................................................119
Removing Dead Segments....................................................................................................................................... 119
Preparing To Remove............................................................................................................................................... 120
Rebuilding Data.......................................................................................................................................................... 120
Canceling A Rebuild...................................................................................................................................................120
Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare..................................................................................................... 120
Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline.........................................................................................................121
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear.......................................................................................... 121
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare................................................................................................................................122
Performing Cryptographic Erase............................................................................................................................122
Exporting The Log For PERC NVMe Drives........................................................................................................123
Convert To RAID Capable Disk...............................................................................................................................124
Convert To Non-RAID Disk......................................................................................................................................124
Chapter 15: Virtual Disks............................................................................................................125
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks...........................................................................................................125
Virtual disk considerations for controllers........................................................................................................... 126
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, S130, And S300 Controllers........................................ 127
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux................................................................................... 127
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk..........................................................................................................128
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller............................................................................................................... 128
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size......................................................................................................... 128
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks.......................................................................................................................... 128
Creating Virtual Disks..................................................................................................................................................... 129
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks...................................................................................................................129
Starting and Target RAID Levels for Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion........................129
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks........................................................................................... 130
Rebuilding Redundant Information............................................................................................................................... 131
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management.........................................................................................................131
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