Software Support
• Restoring Dead Segments
• Deleting Data On the Virtual Disk
• Assigning And Unassigning Dedicated Hot Spare
• Performing A Check Consistency
• Canceling A Check Consistency
• Pausing A Check Consistency
• Resuming A Check Consistency
• Blinking And Unblinking A Virtual Disk
• Renaming A Virtual Disk
• Split Mirror
• Unmirror
• Canceling A Rebuild
• Changing The Virtual Disk Policy
• Replacing A Member Disk
• Clearing Virtual Disk Bad Blocks
• Encrypting A Virtual Disk
Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
The Reconfigure task enables you to change the virtual disks properties. For example, you can use this task to add
physical disks or change the RAID level.
Related Links
Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 1 of 3)
Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 2 of 3)
Virtual Disk Task: Reconfigure (Step 3 of 3)
Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
The Format, Initialize, Slow Initialize, or Fast Initialize task enables you to erase the files and remove the file systems on
a virtual disk. Some controllers require that you initialize a virtual disk before it can be used.
Related Links
Slow And Fast Initialize
Considerations For Slow Initialize
Canceling Background Initialization
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
The Cancel Background Initialization task enables you to cancel a background initialization on a virtual disk.
On PERC controllers, background initialization of redundant virtual disks begins automatically after the virtual disk is
created. Because the initialization is run in the background, other processes can continue while the initialization
completes.
The background initialization of a redundant virtual disk prepares the virtual disk for parity information and improves
write performance. It is important that the background initialization is allowed to run to completion. You can, however,
cancel the background initialization. When you do so, the controller restarts the background initialization later.
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