Users Guide

Virtual Disks
A virtual disk refers to a storage created by a RAID controller from one or more physical disks. Although a virtual disk may be created from
several physical disks, it is viewed by the operating system as a single disk. Depending on the RAID level used, the virtual disk may retain
redundant data if there is a disk failure or have particular performance attributes.
NOTE: Virtual disks can only be created on a RAID controller.
Topics:
• Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks
• Creating Virtual Disks
• Reconguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks
• Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconguration And Capacity Expansion
• Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks
• Rebuilding Redundant Information
• Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management
• Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks
• Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks
• Virtual Disk — Available Tasks
• Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard
• Create Virtual Disk Express Wizard Step 2
• Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard
• Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard Step 2
• Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard Step 3
• Span Edit
• To Recongure A Virtual Disk - Step 1 of 3
• To locate Recongure In Storage Management
• Virtual Disk Task - Recongure Step 2 of 3
• To Recongure A Virtual Disk Expand Virtual Disk Capacity - Step 2 of 3
• Virtual Disk Task - Recongure Step 3 of 3
• Slow And Fast Initialize
• Formatting Or Initializing A Disk
• Deleting A Virtual Disk
• Renaming A Virtual Disk
• Changing The Policy Of A Virtual Disk
• Split Mirror
• Unmirror
• Assigning And Unassigning Dedicated Hot Spare
• Virtual Disk Task - Replace Member Disk Step 1 of 2
• Virtual Disk Task - Replace Member Disk Step 2 of 2
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