Users Guide
Virtual disk actions
The following table describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks. For detailed information on each action below, see Virtual Disk
Management.
Table 9. Virtual disk actions
Action Description
Create a new virtual disk Creates a new virtual disk from one or more physical disks. You can congure hot spares when you create
a virtual disk.
Manage dedicated hot spares Creates or deletes a hot spare, which is dedicated to a single redundant virtual disk.
Initialize a virtual disk Initializes the selected virtual disk. You must initialize every virtual disk that is congured. You can perform
a fast initialization or a full initialization.
Check data consistency on a
virtual disk
Veries the correctness of the redundancy data in the selected virtual disk. The option is available only if
RAID level 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 is used. The PERC 9 series of cards automatically correct any dierences
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 and read policy
from the menu.
Manage preserved cache Preserves the dirty cache from a virtual disk if it goes oine 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 the
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 oine (unaliated 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 10. Information on the Physical Disk Management Screen
Information Displayed in Left Panel Supported Information Displayed in Right Panel
Physical Disk:
• Disk ID
• Protocol type
• Security Property of Physical Disk
• Encryption Capable
• Product ID
68 BIOS Conguration Utility