Users Guide

Action Description
Display or update
virtual disk
parameters
Displays the properties of the selected virtual disk. You can modify the cache
write policy and read policy from the menu.
Manage preserved
cache
Preserves the dirty cache from a virtual disk if it becomes offline or is deleted.
The dirty cache is preserved until you import the virtual disk or discard the
cache.
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.
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 the headings. You can perform several actions on the physical
disks, including the following:
• Rebuilding physical disks
• Performing the Replace Member operation
• Setting the LED to blink
• Making a disk online or offline (unaffiliated with a disk group)
• Creating global hot spares
• Removing dedicated hot spares or global hot spares
The PD Mgmt screen also displays several physical disk properties as shown in the following table.
Table 7. Information on the Physical Disk Management Screen
Information Displayed in Left Panel Supported Information Displayed in Right Panel
Physical Disk:
• Disk ID
• Protocol type
• Capacity (GB)
• Physical Disk State
• Disk Group
• Vendor
• Security Property of Physical Disk
• Encryption Capable
• Product ID
• Firmware Revision
• Disk Write Cache
• S.M.A.R.T state
• Physical Disk operation
• Max Device Link Rate
• Negotiated Link Rate
• Dell Certified Disk (512 or 4k)
Physical Disk Actions
The following table describes the actions you can perform on physical disks. For procedures that can be
used to perform the actions, see the topic Physical Disk Management (PD Mgmt).
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