Users Guide

Virtual Disk Tasks
To execute a virtual disk drop-down menu task:
1. In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller
objects.
2. Expand a Controller object.
3. Select the Virtual Disks object.
4. Select a task from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.
5. Click Execute.
NOTE: Different controllers support different features. The tasks displayed on the Available
Tasks drop-down box can vary depending on which controller is selected in the tree view. If no
tasks can be performed because of controller or system configuration limitations, then the
Available Tasks drop-down box displays No Task Available.
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks
The following is a list of possible tasks in the virtual disk Available Tasks drop-down box.
• Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk
• Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize
• Canceling Background Initialization
• 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.
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