Erasing A Virtual Drive - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
March 2014
Perform the following steps to expand the size of a virtual drive:
1. In the VD Mgmt screen, select the virtual drive whose size you want to expand and press the F2 key.
2. Navigate to Expand VD, and press Enter.
The Expand Virtual Drive dialog appears.
Figure 53 Expand Virtual Drive
3. Enter the percentage of the available capacity that you want the virtual drive to use.
For example, if 100 GB of capacity is available and you want to increase the size of the virtual drive by 30 GB, select
30 percent.
4. Press Resize to determine the capacity of the virtual drive after expansion.
The virtual drive expands by the selected percentage of the available capacity.
4.13.7

Erasing a Virtual Drive

Virtual drive erase operates on a specified virtual drive and overwrites all user-accessible locations. It supports
nonzero patterns and multiple passes. Virtual drive erase optionally deletes the virtual drive and erases the data
within the virtual drive's logical base address range. Virtual drive erase is a background operation that posts events to
notify users of their progress.
Perform the following steps to perform the virtual drive erase operation.
1. In the VD Mgmt screen, select a virtual drive, and press the F2 key.
2. Navigate to Erase VD, and press Enter.
A menu appears displaying the following modes:
Simple – Specifies a single-pass erase operation that writes pattern A to the virtual drive.
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Normal – Specifies a three-pass erase operation that first overwrites the virtual drive content with random
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values, then overwrites it with pattern A, and then overwrites it with pattern B.
Thorough – Specifies a nine-pass erase operation that repeats the Normal erase thrice.
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