Users Guide

Displaying The Online Help
Storage Management provides an extensive online Help. This Help is available from the Server Administrator graphical user interface
when the Storage or lower-level tree view object is selected.
The online Help is available as:
• Context-sensitive Help — Each Storage Management page has a icon. Click this icon to display the context-sensitive
online Help that describes the contents of the displayed page.
• Table of Contents — The table of contents is available in the page that displays the information when you access the context-
sensitive Help.
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Storage Object
Common Storage Tasks
This section provides information on commonly performed storage tasks:
• Create and congure virtual disks (RAID conguration). For more information, see:
– Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard — This topic provides information on using the Express Wizard to create a virtual disk.
Using the Express Wizard is the quickest method for creating a virtual disk. The Express Wizard is appropriate for novice
users.
– Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard — This topic provides information on using the Advanced Wizard to create a virtual
disk. The Advanced Wizard requires a good knowledge of RAID levels and hardware and is appropriate for advanced users.
– Virtual Disks — This topic provides detailed information regarding the virtual disk management. This information includes
controller-specic considerations that aect virtual disk creation and management.
• Assign a hot spare to the virtual disk — When a virtual disk uses a RAID level, you can assign a hot spare (backup physical disk)
to rebuild data if a physical disk in the virtual disk fails.
– Protecting Your Virtual Disk With A Hot Spare — This topic provides information on hot spares and controller-specic
information.
• Perform a Check Consistency — The Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks task veries the accuracy of the
redundant data on a virtual disk.
• Recongure a Virtual Disk — To expand the capacity of a virtual disk you can add physical disks to the virtual disk. You can also
change the RAID levels. For more information, see Virtual Disk Task: Recongure (Step 1 of 3).
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