Initializing Virtual Disks - Dell 5 series User Manual

Press <Tab> to move the cursor to the Read Policy to change it if desired.
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Press <Enter> to display the options, Read Ahd, No Read, or Adaptive, then press the down
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arrow key to highlight an option and press <Enter>.
Press <Tab> to move the cursor to the Write Policy to change it if desired.
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Press <Enter> to display the options, Write-Through or Write-Back, then press the down arrow
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key to highlight an option and press <Enter>.
Press <Tab> to move the cursor to OK.
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Press <Tab> to move the cursor to Force WB with no battery and press <Enter>.
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Press <Tab> to move the cursor to Initialize and press <Enter>.
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NOTE:
The initialization performed at this stage is fast initialization.
Press <Tab> to move the cursor to Configure Hot Spare and press <Enter>.
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NOTE:
The hot spare created at this stage is a dedicated hot spare.
If you have chosen to create hot spares in the earlier steps a pop-up window appears where drives
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with appropriate sizes are displayed. Press the spacebar to select the drive size.
After you select the drive size, click OK to finalize the selection or click Cancel to forfeit the
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selection.
Select OK to accept the settings and press <Enter> to exit this window or select Cancel and
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press <Enter> to exit if you do not want to change any virtual disk parameters.

Initializing Virtual Disks

Perform the following steps to initialize virtual disks.
1 On the VD Mgmt screen, select Virtual Disk # and press <F2> to display the menu of available
actions.
2 Select Initialization and press the right arrow key to display the Initialization submenu options.
3 Select Start Init. to begin a regular initialization or select Fast Init. to begin a fast initialization.
Fast initialization writes zeroes to the first sector of the virtual disk so that initialization occurs in
2–3 seconds. A progress bar displays next to the selected virtual disk as it initializes.
4 When initialization is complete, press <Esc> to return to the main menu screen.
5 Repeat the procedures in this section to configure another virtual disk.
The PERC 5 controllers support up to 64 virtual disks per controller. The currently configured virtual
disks display on the screen.
NOTE:
Performing a full initialization eliminates the need for the virtual disk to undergo a background initialization.
The full initialization is faster than the background initialization. Full initialization can be performed to speed up
performance access to the virtual disk after initial creation. The full initialization must be completed before
accessing the virtual disk.
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