User's Manual

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Virtual Disk Tasks
Do the following to execute a virtual disk drop-down menu task:
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1. Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
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2. Expand a controller object.
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3. Select the Virtual Disks object.
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4. Select a task from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.
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5. Click Execute.
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Virtual Disk Drop-down Menu Tasks:
l "Reconfigure"
l "Format, Initialize, Slow and Fast Initialize"
l "Cancel Format or Initialize"
l "Cancel Background Initialization"
l "Restore Dead Segments"
l "Delete"
l "Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare"
l "Check Consistency"
l "Cancel Check Consistency"
l "Pause Check Consistency"
l "Resume Check Consistency"
l "Blink and Unblink (Virtual Disk)"
l "Rename"
l "Split Mirror"
l "Unmirror"
l "Cancel Rebuild"
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.
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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."
Cache Policy
This property displays the cache policy that the controller is using for this virtual disk. See "RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk Cache
Policy."
Stripe Size
This property displays the stripe size of the virtual disk.
Disk Cache
Policy
This property displays whether the disk cache policy of the physical disks that are part of the virtual disk is enabled or disabled. See "RAID
Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk Cache Policy."
NOTE: Different controllers support different features. For this reason, the tasks displayed on the Tasks drop-down menu can vary depending on which
controller is selected in the tree view. If no tasks can be performed because of controller or system configuration limitations, then the Tasks drop-down
menu displays No Task Available.