Virtual Disk Actions - Dell H310 User Manual

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Virtual Disk Actions

The following table describes the actions you can perform on virtual disks. For procedures you can use to perform the
actions, see Virtual Disk Management.
Table 6. Virtual Disk Actions
Action
Create a new virtual disk Creates a new virtual disk from one or more physical disks. You can configure hot spares
Manage dedicated hot
spares
Initialize a virtual disk
Check data consistency
on a virtual disk
Display or update virtual
disk parameters
Manage preserved
cache
Delete a virtual disk
Delete a disk group
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Physical Disk Properties:
Disk Group # Properties:
Description
when you create a virtual disk.
Creates or deletes a hot spare that you can dedicate to a single redundant 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.
Verifies the correctness of the redundancy data in the selected virtual disk. The option is
available only if RAID level 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, or 60 is used. The PERC H310, H710, H710P, or H810
cards automatically correct any differences found in the data.
Displays the properties of the selected virtual disk. You can modify the cache write policy
and read policy from the menu.
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.
Deletes the virtual disk and frees up disk space to create another virtual disk.
Deletes a disk group, which is a collection of disks from one or more disk subsystems
controlled by management software.
• Number of physical disks (PD)
• Space available on the physical disks
• Number of free segments
• Number of dedicated hot spares
• Vendor name
• Physical disk state
• Enclosure Position
• Slot Position
• Number of virtual disks (VD)
• Number of physical disks (PD)
• Space available on the physical disks
• Number of free segments
• Number of dedicated hot spares
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