Managing Virtual Disks Using Racadm; Managing Controllers - Dell iDRAC 8 User Manual

– Enabled
– Disabled
• Initialize: Fast — Updates the metadata on the physical disks so that all the disk space is available for future write
operations. The initialize option can be completed quickly because existing information on the physical disks is not erased,
although future write operations overwrites any information that remains on the physical disks.
• Initialize: Full — All existing data and file systems are erased.
NOTE: The Initialize: Full option is not applicable for PERC H330 controllers.
• Check Consistency — To check the consistency of a virtual disk, select Check Consistency from the corresponding drop-
down menu.
NOTE: Consistency check is not supported on drives set up in RAID0 mode.
• Encrypt Virtual Disk — Encrypts the virtual disk drive. If the controller is encryption capable, you can create, change or
delete the security keys.
NOTE: The Encrypt Virtual Disk option is available only if the virtual disk is created using the Self-Encrypting
Drive (SED) drives.
• Manage Dedicated Hotspares — Assign or unassign a physical disk as a dedicated hot spare. Only the valid dedicated hot
spares are displayed. If there are no valid dedicated hot spares, then this section does not appear in the drop-down menu.
For more information about these options, see the iDRAC Online Help.
4. From the Apply Operation Mode drop-down menu, select when you want to apply the settings.
5. Click Apply.
Based on the selected operation mode, the settings are applied.

Managing virtual disks using RACADM

Use the following commands to manage virtual disks:
• To delete virtual disk:
racadm storage deletevd:<VD FQDD>
• To initialize virtual disk:
racadm storage init:<VD FQDD> -speed {fast|full}
• To check consistency of virtual disks (not supported on RAID0):
racadm storage ccheck:<vdisk fqdd>
To cancel the consistency check:
racadm storage cancelcheck: <vdisks fqdd>
• To encrypt virtual disks:
racadm storage encryptvd:<VD FQDD>
• To assign or unassign dedicated hot spares:
racadm storage hotspare:<Physical Disk FQDD> -assign <option> -type dhs -vdkey: <FQDD of
VD>
<option>=ye
s
<Option>=no

Managing controllers

You can perform the following for controllers:
• Configure controller properties
• Import or auto import foreign configuration
• Clear foreign configuration
• Reset controller configuration
Assign hot spare
Unassign hot spare
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