Users Guide

Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline...............................................................................136
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear..................................................................137
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare.....................................................................................................137
Enabling Instant Encrypt Erase................................................................................................... 138
Convert To RAID Capable Disk...................................................................................................138
Convert To Non-RAID Disk.........................................................................................................139
14 Virtual Disks.....................................................................................................140
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks..................................................................................140
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers............................................................................... 141
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, S130, And S300 Controllers...................... 142
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux............................................................143
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk.................................................................................143
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller..................................................................................... 143
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size................................................................................143
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks.............................................................................................. 144
Creating Virtual Disks........................................................................................................................144
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks.........................................................................................145
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion.........145
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks.....................................................................146
Rebuilding Redundant Information.................................................................................................. 147
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management............................................................................... 147
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks................................................................................... 148
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks..................................................................................................... 149
Virtual Disk Properties.................................................................................................................149
Virtual Disk Tasks......................................................................................................................... 152
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks........................................................................................................... 152
Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk........................................................................................................152
Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize..................................................................................153
Canceling Background Initialization...........................................................................................153
Restoring Dead Segments...........................................................................................................153
Deleting Data On the Virtual Disk...............................................................................................153
Performing A Check Consistency...............................................................................................154
Canceling A Check Consistency.................................................................................................154
Pausing A Check Consistency.................................................................................................... 154
Resuming A Check Consistency.................................................................................................154
Blinking And Unblinking A Virtual Disk....................................................................................... 154
Renaming A Virtual Disk..............................................................................................................154
Canceling A Rebuild.................................................................................................................... 155
Changing The Virtual Disk Policy................................................................................................155
Replacing A Member Disk........................................................................................................... 155
Clearing Virtual Disk Bad Blocks................................................................................................. 155
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