User's Manual

236 Virtual Disks
1 Review the virtual disk that is destroyed by the Format or Initialize and
make sure that vital data is not lost. Click
Blink at the bottom of the
screen to blink the physical disks included in the virtual disk.
2 Depending on the task you are initiating, click the following button when
ready:
–Format
–Initialize
– Slow Initialize
– Fast Initialize
To exit without formatting or initializing the virtual disk, click Go Back To
Virtual Disk Page
.
To locate this task in Storage Management:
1 Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2 Expand a controller object.
3 Select the Virtual Disks object.
4 Depending on the task you want to initiate, select one of the following
from the
Available Tasks drop-down menu.
–Format
–Initialize
– Slow Initialize
– Fast Initialize
5
Click Execute.
Virtual Disk Task: Delete
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features .
Deleting a virtual disk destroys all information including file systems and
volumes residing on the virtual disk.
NOTE: When deleting virtual disks, all assigned global hot spares may be
automatically unassigned when the last virtual disk associated with the controller is
deleted. When deleting the last virtual disk of a disk group, all assigned dedicated
hot spares automatically become global hotspares.