Users Guide
1. Press the down-arrow key to highlight an available physical disk.
2. Press the spacebar to select the disk.
3. Repeat step a to step b for each dedicated hot spare that you want to create.
NOTE: An X is displayed beside the selected physical disk(s).
• Deleting a dedicated hot spare
1. Use the down-arrow key to highlight a current hot spare.
2. Press the spacebar to de-select the disk.
3. Repeat step a and step b for each dedicated hot spare that you want to delete.
4. Press <Enter> to confirm the changes.
The VD Mgmt screen displays the updated list of hot spares under the Hot spares heading.
NOTE: If a global hot spare or dedicated hot spare is removed, reinserted and imported, it
regains its status as a hot spare. A dedicated hot spare becomes a global hot spare when the
disk group it was assigned to protect is no longer present during import.
Deleting Virtual Disks
NOTE: You cannot delete a virtual disk during an initialization.
NOTE: Warning messages appear stating the effect of deleting a virtual disk. Click OK twice to
complete the virtual disk deletion.
To delete virtual disks, perform the following steps in the BIOS Configuration Utility (<Ctrl> <R>):
1. Press <Ctrl> <N> to access the VD Mgmt screen.
2. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the Virtual Disks heading.
3. Press <F2>.
The action menu is displayed.
4. Select Delete VD and press <Enter>.
5. If there are multiple virtual disks in a Disk Group, select Total Free Capacity for the Disk Group in the
VD Mgmt screen.
The total amount of free space available in the Disk Group is displayed.
Deleting Disk Groups
You can delete disk groups using the BIOS Configuration Utility (<Ctrl> <R>). When you delete a disk
group, the utility also removes the virtual disks in that disk group.
To delete disk groups, perform the following steps in the BIOS Configuration Utility (<Ctrl> <R>):
1. Press <Ctrl> <N> to access the VD Mgmt screen.
2. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the Virtual Disks heading.
3. Press <F2>.
The action menu is displayed.
4. Select Delete Disk Group and press <Enter>.
The disk group is deleted.
NOTE: When you delete a disk group, the remaining disk groups with higher numbers are
automatically renumbered. For example, if you delete disk group #2, then disk group #3 is
automatically renumbered as disk group #2.
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