Users Guide

Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks
To execute a physical disk or physical device task:
1 Expand the Storage tree object to display the controller objects.
2 In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.
3 Expand the enclosure or backplane object.
4 Select Physical Disks or Physical Devices object.
5 Click Information/Conguration on the controller Properties page.
6 Select a task from the drop-down menu.
7 Click Execute.
NOTE: Dierent controllers support dierent features. For this reason, the tasks displayed on the tasks drop-down
menu can vary depending on which controller is selected in the tree view. No Task Available is the only option in the
drop-down list box when no tasks can be performed because of controller or system conguration limitations.
Physical Disk Tasks
The following are the list of tasks that you can perform on a physical disk:
• Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk
• Removing Dead Segments
• Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare
• Preparing To Remove
• Setting Online And Oine
• Rebuilding Data
• Cancelling A Rebuild
• Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear
• Enabling Revertible Hot Spare
• Performing Cryptographic Erase
• Convert To RAID Capable Disk
• Convert To Non-RAID Disk
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk
Does my controller support this feature? See Supported Features.
The Blink task allows you to nd a disk within an enclosure by blinking one of the light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on the disk. You can use this
task to locate a failed disk.
On most controllers, the Blink task automatically cancels after a short duration such as 30–60 seconds. Select Unblink to cancel the Blink
task or to stop the LED on the physical device that is blinking indenitely.
NOTE
: The Blink and Unblink tasks are only supported for hotswap physical disks (disks that reside in a carrier). When using an
Broadcom PCIe U320 controller, the Blink and Unblink tasks apply to physical disks contained in carriers that can be inserted into
a server or an enclosure. If the physical disk is not contained in a carrier but is instead designed to be connected with a SCSI
cable (typically a ribbon cable), then the Blink and Unblink tasks are disabled.
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