Users Guide

Battery Tasks....................................................................................................................................................................108
Battery — Available Tasks............................................................................................................................................ 108
Starting A Learn Cycle................................................................................................................................................... 108
Battery Transparent Learn Cycle................................................................................................................................ 109
Initiating The Battery Delay Learn Cycle................................................................................................................... 109
Delay The Battery Learn Cycle.....................................................................................................................................109
To Locate Delay Learn Cycle In Storage Management.......................................................................................... 109
Chapter 14: Physical Disks Or Physical Devices.......................................................................... 110
Guidelines To Replace A Physical Disk Or Physical Device.................................................................................... 110
Adding A New Disk To The System............................................................................................................................. 110
For SAS Controllers................................................................................................................................................... 110
Replacing A Physical Disk Receiving SMART Alerts................................................................................................. 111
Disk Is Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk...............................................................................................................111
Disk Is Not Part Of A Redundant Virtual Disk...................................................................................................... 111
Other Disk Procedures.....................................................................................................................................................111
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Properties..............................................................................................................112
Physical Disk Or Physical Device Tasks...................................................................................................................... 116
Physical Disk Tasks.......................................................................................................................................................... 116
Blinking And Unblinking A Physical Disk ...............................................................................................................116
Removing Dead Segments....................................................................................................................................... 116
Preparing To Remove................................................................................................................................................ 117
Rebuilding Data............................................................................................................................................................117
Canceling A Rebuild....................................................................................................................................................117
Assigning And Unassigning Global Hot Spare...................................................................................................... 117
Setting The Physical Disk Online Or Offline.........................................................................................................118
Performing A Clear Physical Disk And Cancel Clear.......................................................................................... 118
Enabling Revertible Hot Spare................................................................................................................................ 119
Performing Cryptographic Erase............................................................................................................................ 119
Exporting The Log For PERC NVMe Drives........................................................................................................120
Convert To RAID Capable Disk................................................................................................................................121
Convert To Non-RAID Disk...................................................................................................................................... 121
Chapter 15: Virtual Disks............................................................................................................122
Considerations Before Creating Virtual Disks........................................................................................................... 122
Virtual Disk Considerations For Controllers.........................................................................................................123
Virtual Disk Considerations For PERC S100, S110, S130, And S300 Controllers........................................ 124
Virtual Disk Considerations On Systems Running Linux................................................................................... 124
Number Of Physical Disks Per Virtual Disk..........................................................................................................124
Number Of Virtual Disks Per Controller............................................................................................................... 125
Calculation For Maximum Virtual Disk Size......................................................................................................... 125
Channel-Redundant Virtual Disks.......................................................................................................................... 125
Creating Virtual Disks..................................................................................................................................................... 125
Reconfiguring Or Migrating Virtual Disks...................................................................................................................126
Starting And Target RAID Levels For Virtual Disk Reconfiguration And Capacity Expansion...................... 126
Maintaining The Integrity Of Redundant Virtual Disks............................................................................................127
Rebuilding Redundant Information.............................................................................................................................. 127
Managing Virtual Disk Bad Block Management........................................................................................................128
Recommendations For Clearing Bad Blocks..............................................................................................................129
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