User's Manual

Other Disk Procedures......................................................................................................................133
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties.................................................................................... 133
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks............................................................................................138
Physical Disk Tasks............................................................................................................................138
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk ....................................................................................138
Removing Dead Segments..........................................................................................................139
Preparing To Remove..................................................................................................................139
Rebuilding Data........................................................................................................................... 139
Canceling A Rebuild....................................................................................................................140
Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare............................................................................140
Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline............................................................................... 141
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear.................................................................. 141
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare.................................................................................................... 142
Enabling Instant Encrypt Erase................................................................................................... 142
Convert To RAID Capable Disk...................................................................................................143
Convert To Non-RAID Disk.........................................................................................................143
15 Virtual Disks..........................................................................................................145
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks.................................................................................. 145
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers............................................................................... 145
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, And S300 Controllers................................ 147
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux............................................................147
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk.................................................................................147
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller.....................................................................................148
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size................................................................................148
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks.............................................................................................. 148
Creating Virtual Disks........................................................................................................................148
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks.........................................................................................149
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion........ 149
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks..................................................................... 151
Rebuilding Redundant Information...................................................................................................151
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management................................................................................151
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks....................................................................................153
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks......................................................................................................153
Virtual Disk Properties................................................................................................................. 153
Virtual Disk Tasks.........................................................................................................................156
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks...........................................................................................................156
Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk........................................................................................................157
Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize.................................................................................. 157
Canceling Background Initialization........................................................................................... 157
Restoring Dead Segments...........................................................................................................157
Deleting Data On the Virtual Disk...............................................................................................158