Users Guide

Property Denition
Non-RAID Disk cache policy Displays the cache policy of the NON-RAID disk. For the Non-RAID physical disk the
Non-RAID disk cache policy property can be changed to unchanged, enable, or disable.
NOTE: This feature is not available from PERC 10 or later.
Available Spare Displays the available spare value set for all SSDs (SAS / SATA). New disk will have
100% spare which comes down as per the usage.
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 cancels once you select Unblink. Select Unblink to cancel the Blink task or to stop the LED on the
physical device that is blinking indenitely.
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Physical Disks Or Physical Devices