User's Manual

Virtual Disks 237
To delete a virtual disk:
To identify which physical disks are included in the virtual disk, click Blink.
The LED lights on the physical disks blink for 30 to 60 seconds.
When deleting a virtual disk, the following considerations apply:
• There are particular considerations for deleting a virtual disk from a
cluster-enabled controller.
• It is recommended that you reboot the system after deleting the virtual
disk. Rebooting the system ensures that the operating system recognizes
the disk configuration correctly.
• If you delete a virtual disk and immediately create a new virtual disk with
all the same characteristics as the one that was deleted, the controller
recognizes the data as if the first virtual disk were never deleted. In this
situation, if you don't want the old data after recreating a new virtual disk,
reinitialize the virtual disk.
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 Select Delete from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.
5 Click Execute.
Virtual Disk Task: Rename
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features .
Renaming a virtual disk enables you to change the virtual disk’s name. The
numbering format for the virtual disk remains unchanged.
Depending on the controller you have, there are different considerations
regarding the controller BIOS:
• The virtual disk name can contain only alphanumeric characters as well as
spaces, dashes and underscores. The maximum name length depends on
the controller. In most cases, the maximum length is 15 characters. The
name cannot start with a space, end with a space, or be left blank.