Users Guide

Adding A New Disk To The System................................................................................................................................. 101
For SAS Controllers...................................................................................................................................................... 101
Replacing A Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts......................................................................................................102
Disk Is Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk.................................................................................................................. 102
Disk Is Not Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk.......................................................................................................... 102
Other Disk Procedures...................................................................................................................................................... 102
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties.................................................................................................................. 102
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks.......................................................................................................................... 106
Physical Disk Tasks............................................................................................................................................................106
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk ................................................................................................................... 107
Removing Dead Segments..........................................................................................................................................107
Preparing To Remove..................................................................................................................................................107
Rebuilding Data.............................................................................................................................................................107
Canceling A Rebuild..................................................................................................................................................... 108
Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare...........................................................................................................108
Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline............................................................................................................. 108
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear................................................................................................109
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare................................................................................................................................... 109
Performing Cryptographic Erase................................................................................................................................ 110
Convert To RAID Capable Disk................................................................................................................................... 110
Convert To Non-RAID Disk......................................................................................................................................... 110
15 Virtual Disks............................................................................................................................. 111
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks.................................................................................................................. 111
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers............................................................................................................... 112
Considerations For Hot Spares On PERC S100 And PERC S300 Controllers......................................................113
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux.......................................................................................... 113
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk................................................................................................................113
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller..................................................................................................................... 113
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size................................................................................................................114
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks............................................................................................................................... 114
Creating Virtual Disks......................................................................................................................................................... 114
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks.........................................................................................................................114
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion.................................. 115
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks...................................................................................................116
Rebuilding Redundant Information................................................................................................................................... 116
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management.............................................................................................................. 116
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks....................................................................................................................117
Virtual Disk Properties And Tasks.....................................................................................................................................117
Virtual Disk Properties.................................................................................................................................................. 118
Virtual Disk Tasks..........................................................................................................................................................119
Virtual Disk — Available Tasks..........................................................................................................................................119
Reconfiguring A Virtual Disk....................................................................................................................................... 120
Format, Initialize, Slow, And Fast Initialize................................................................................................................ 120
Canceling Background Initialization............................................................................................................................120
Restoring Dead Segments.......................................................................................................................................... 120
Deleting Data On the Virtual Disk...............................................................................................................................120
Performing A Check Consistency...............................................................................................................................121
Cancelling A Check Consistency.................................................................................................................................121
Pausing A Check Consistency.....................................................................................................................................121
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