Setting Up Virtual Disks - Dell 6 series User Manual

Table 6-1. Menu Navigation Keys (continued)
Notation Meaning and Use
<F11> Switch between two controllers.
<F12> Press <F12> to display a list of controllers.
Spacebar Press the spacebar to select an item, such as a virtual
disk in the List View, select all the virtual disks
(Mark All), or de-select all the virtual disks (Unmark
All).

Setting Up Virtual Disks

You can set up a disk group and create virtual disks using the procedures
contained in this section. Each of the following procedures are explained
individually in this section in detail.
1 Create the virtual disks and select the virtual disk options.
2 Designate hot spares (optional).
For more information, see "Managing Dedicated Hot Spares" on page 94.
NOTE:
deleted.
3 Initialize the virtual disks.
NOTE:
all the virtual disks must be configured with the same RAID level.
When you define the virtual disks, you can set the following virtual disk
parameters:
• RAID level
• Stripe element size
• Read policy
• Write policy
• Type of initialization
• Hot spare configuration
A disk group is deleted when the last virtual disk in the disk group is
When you use one physical disk group to create multiple virtual disks,
Configuring and Managing RAID
Example
<F11>
<F12>
Press the
spacebar to select
each virtual disk
on which you
want to check
data consistency.
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