Software Support

Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline................................................................................................... 128
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear..................................................................................... 128
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare....................................................................................................................... 129
Enabling Instant Encrypt Erase...................................................................................................................... 130
Convert To RAID Capable Disk.......................................................................................................................130
Convert To Non-RAID Disk.............................................................................................................................130
14 Virtual Disks........................................................................................................................... 131
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks...................................................................................................... 131
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers................................................................................................... 131
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, And S300 Controllers.......................................................133
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux................................................................................ 133
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk....................................................................................................133
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller..........................................................................................................134
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size....................................................................................................134
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks.................................................................................................................. 134
Creating Virtual Disks........................................................................................................................................... 134
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks.............................................................................................................135
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion..............................135
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks......................................................................................... 136
Rebuilding Redundant Information....................................................................................................................... 137
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management.................................................................................................. 137
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks........................................................................................................ 138
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks........................................................................................................................ 139
Virtual Disk Properties....................................................................................................................................139
Virtual Disk Tasks...........................................................................................................................................141
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks............................................................................................................................ 141
Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk.......................................................................................................................... 142
Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize.....................................................................................................142
Canceling Background Initialization.............................................................................................................. 142
Restoring Dead Segments..............................................................................................................................143
Deleting Data On the Virtual Disk...................................................................................................................143
Performing A Check Consistency...................................................................................................................143
Canceling A Check Consistency.................................................................................................................... 143
Pausing A Check Consistency........................................................................................................................143
Resuming A Check Consistency.....................................................................................................................143
Blinking And Unblinking A Virtual Disk...........................................................................................................143
Renaming A Virtual Disk.................................................................................................................................144
Canceling A Rebuild....................................................................................................................................... 144
Changing The Virtual Disk Policy................................................................................................................... 144
Replacing A Member Disk..............................................................................................................................144
Clearing Virtual Disk Bad Blocks....................................................................................................................144