User`s guide

56 RAID Configuration and Management
Virtual Disk Actions
Table 5-3 describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks. See "Setting Up Virtual Disks" on page 58
for procedures you can use to perform these actions.
Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt)
The Physical Disk Management screen, PD Mgmt , displays physical disk information and action menus.
The screen displays physical disk IDs, vendor names, disk size, type, state, and disk group (
DG ). You can sort
the list of physical disks based on these headings. You can perform several actions on the physical disks,
including the following:
• Rebuilding physical disks
• Setting the LED to blink
• Making a disk online or unaffiliated
• Removing dedicated or global hot spares
• Creating global hot spares
Table 5-3. Virtual Disk Menu Options
Option Description
Create a new virtual disk Creates a new virtual disk from one or more physical disks.
Manage dedicated hot
spares
Creates or deletes a hot spare that can be dedicated to a single redundant virtual disks.
Initialize a virtual disk Initializes the selected virtual disk. Every virtual disk that is configured must be
initialized.
Check data consistency on
a virtual disk
Verifies the correctness of the redundancy data in the selected virtual disk. This
option is available only if RAID level 1, 5, 10, or 50 is used. The PERC 5 controllers
automatically correct any differences found in the data.
Display or update virtual
disk parameters
Displays the properties of the selected virtual disk. You can modify the cache write
policy, read policy, and the input/output (I/O) policy from this menu.
Delete a virtual disk Deletes the virtual disk and frees up disk space to create another virtual disk.
Delete a disk group Deletes a disk group, which is a collection of disks from one or more disk subsystems
controlled by management software.
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