Users Guide

14 Virtual Disks.....................................................................................................139
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks.................................................................................. 139
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers...............................................................................140
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, S130, And S300 Controllers.......................141
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux............................................................142
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk.................................................................................142
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller..................................................................................... 142
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size................................................................................142
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks...............................................................................................143
Creating Virtual Disks........................................................................................................................ 143
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks.........................................................................................144
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion........ 144
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks.....................................................................145
Rebuilding Redundant Information..................................................................................................146
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management...............................................................................146
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks....................................................................................147
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks..................................................................................................... 148
Virtual Disk Properties.................................................................................................................148
Virtual Disk Tasks..........................................................................................................................151
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks........................................................................................................... 151
Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk........................................................................................................151
Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize..................................................................................152
Canceling Background Initialization...........................................................................................152
Restoring Dead Segments...........................................................................................................152
Deleting Data On the Virtual Disk...............................................................................................152
Performing A Check Consistency...............................................................................................153
Canceling A Check Consistency.................................................................................................153
Pausing A Check Consistency.....................................................................................................153
Resuming A Check Consistency.................................................................................................153
Blinking And Unblinking A Virtual Disk........................................................................................153
Renaming A Virtual Disk.............................................................................................................. 153
Canceling A Rebuild.................................................................................................................... 154
Changing The Virtual Disk Policy................................................................................................154
Replacing A Member Disk........................................................................................................... 154
Clearing Virtual Disk Bad Blocks.................................................................................................154
Encrypting A Virtual Disk............................................................................................................. 155
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard...................................................................................................155
Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard (Step 2)..................................................................................... 156
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard............................................................................................... 157
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard (Step 2)..................................................................................159
Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard (Step 3)................................................................................. 160
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