Dell 6 series, User Manual

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Configuring and Managing RAID
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Virtual Disk Actions
Table 6-4 describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks. For
procedures you can use to perform these actions, See "Physical Disk
Management" on page 105.
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
Table 6-4. Virtual Disk Actions
Action Description
Create a new virtual
disk Creates a new virtual disk from one or more physical disks.
You can configure hot spares when you create a virtual disk.
Manage dedicated
hot spares Creates or deletes a hot spare that you can dedicate to a single
redundant virtual disks.
Initialize a virtual
disk Initializes the selected virtual disk. You must initialize every
virtual disk that is configured. You can perform a fast
initialization or a Full Initialization.
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, 6,
10, 50, or 60 is used. The PERC 6 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.
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.
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