Users Guide

Property Definition
Media Displays the media type of the physical disks present in the virtual disk. The possible values
are:
• HDD
• SSD
• Unknown — Storage Management is unable to determine the media type of the
physical disk.
NOTE: You cannot have a mix of HDD and SSD media on a virtual disk. Also,
you cannot have a mix of SAS and SATA drives on the virtual disk.
Read Policy Displays the read policy that the controller is using for the selected virtual disk. See RAID
Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk Cache Policy.
Write Policy Displays the write policy that the controller is using for the selected virtual disk. See RAID
Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk Cache Policy.
Cache Policy Displays the cache policy that the controller is using for the selected virtual disk. See RAID
Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk Cache Policy.
Stripe Size Displays the stripe size of the virtual disk.
Disk Cache Policy Displays whether the disk cache policy of the physical disks that is part of the virtual disk is
enabled or disabled. See RAID Controller Read, Write, Cache, and Disk Cache Policy.
Virtual Disk Tasks
To execute a virtual disk drop-down menu task:
1. In the Server Administrator window, under the system tree, expand Storage to display the controller objects.
2. Expand a Controller object.
3. Select the Virtual Disks object.
4. Select a task from the Available Tasks drop-down menu.
5. Click Execute.
NOTE:
Different controllers support different features. The tasks displayed on the Available Tasks drop-down box
can vary depending on which controller is selected in the tree view. If no tasks can be performed because of
controller or system configuration limitations, then the Available Tasks drop-down box displays No Task Available.
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks
The following is a list of possible tasks in the virtual disk Available Tasks drop-down box.
• Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk
• Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize
• Canceling Background Initialization
• Restoring Dead Segments
• Deleting Data On the Virtual Disk
• Assigning And Unassigning Dedicated Hot Spare
• Performing A Check Consistency
• Canceling A Check Consistency
• Pausing A Check Consistency
• Resuming A Check Consistency
• Blinking And Unblinking A Virtual Disk
• Renaming A Virtual Disk
• Split Mirror
• Unmirror
• Canceling A Rebuild
• Changing The Virtual Disk Policy
• Replacing A Member Disk
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