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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Virtual Drives
The Progress indicator in the dialog shows the percentage progress of the consistency check. To refresh the
indicator, exit the dialog and re-enter it.
4.
To stop or suspend the consistency check, highlight
Stop
or
Suspend
and press Enter.
5.
To resume a suspended consistency check, highlight
Resume
and press Enter.
For more information about consistency checks, see
Scheduling a Consistency Check
5.5.1.9
Expanding a Virtual Drive
Expanding a virtual drive means increasing its capacity. Existing data on the virtual drive is not impacted by the
expansion. Follow these steps to expand the currently selected virtual drive.
1.
Select
Expand Virtual Drive
from the pop-up menu.
The
Expand Virtual Drive
dialog appears.
The dialog shows the current capacity of the selected virtual drive, the available capacity that can be added to it,
and the capacity of the expanded virtual drive, if all available capacity is added.
2.
To change the amount of available capacity, highlight the
Enter a Percentage of Available Capacity
field and
use the minus key on the keypad to reduce percentage.
NOTE
Some systems permit you to enter numeric values directly, without
using the + and – keys.
3.
When you have set the capacity to the desired level, highlight
OK
and press Enter.
The capacity of the virtual drive is expanded.
5.5.1.10
Disabling Protection on a Virtual Drive
To disable data protection on virtual drives, perform these steps:
1.
Highlight
Disable Protection
on the pop-up menu and press Enter.
2.
Highlight the word Go that appears beneath Operation and press Enter.
Data protection is disabled on virtual drives.
5.5.2
Managing CacheCade Virtual Drives
After you create a CacheCade virtual drive, as described in
Creating a CacheCade Virtual Drive
, you can select it on the
Virtual Drive Management
menu, run operations on it, and manage it in other ways.
The following window appears when you select a CacheCade virtual drive in the
Virtual Drive Management
menu.
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