Users Guide

Battery Transparent Learn Cycle............................................................................................................................... 107
Initiating The Battery Delay Learn Cycle....................................................................................................................107
To Locate Delay Learn Cycle In Storage Management.....................................................................................................107
13 Physical Disks Or Physical Devices.............................................................................108
Guidelines To Replace A Physical Disk Or Physical Device...............................................................................................108
Adding A New Disk To The System.................................................................................................................................108
For SAS Controllers.................................................................................................................................................. 108
Replacing A Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts........................................................................................................109
Disk Is Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk...................................................................................................................109
Disk Is Not Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk............................................................................................................109
Other Disk Procedures....................................................................................................................................................109
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties....................................................................................................................109
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks............................................................................................................................ 113
Physical Disk Tasks.......................................................................................................................................................... 113
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk .................................................................................................................... 114
Removing Dead Segments.........................................................................................................................................114
Preparing To Remove.................................................................................................................................................114
Rebuilding Data..........................................................................................................................................................115
Canceling A Rebuild...................................................................................................................................................115
Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare.............................................................................................................115
Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Oine................................................................................................................116
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear................................................................................................... 116
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare................................................................................................................................... 117
Performing Cryptographic Erase................................................................................................................................118
Convert To RAID Capable Disk...................................................................................................................................118
Convert To Non-RAID Disk........................................................................................................................................ 118
14 Virtual Disks................................................................................................................ 119
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks................................................................................................................... 119
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers................................................................................................................ 119
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, S130, And S300 Controllers..........................................................121
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux..............................................................................................121
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk.................................................................................................................121
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller.....................................................................................................................122
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size................................................................................................................122
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks..............................................................................................................................122
Creating Virtual Disks......................................................................................................................................................122
Reconguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks.........................................................................................................................123
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconguration And Capacity Expansion............................................123
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks..................................................................................................... 124
Rebuilding Redundant Information.................................................................................................................................. 124
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management...............................................................................................................125
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks....................................................................................................................126
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks....................................................................................................................................126
Virtual Disk Properties............................................................................................................................................... 127
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