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1.
Highlight Virtual Drive Erase on the pop-up menu and press Enter.
Two additional fields appear.
2.
Highlight Erase Mode and press Enter.
3.
Select Simple, Normal, or Thorough from the pop-up menu.
A Simple erase writes a pattern to the virtual drive in a single pass. The other erase modes make additional passes
to erase the data more thoroughly.
4.
(Optional) Highlight Delete After Erase and press the spacebar to select it.
5.
Highlight Go and press Enter.
The Virtual Drive Erase warning message appears.
6.
Highlight Confirm and press the spacebar to confirm the operation, then highlight Yes and press Enter.
The virtual drive is erased.
5.5.1.6
Enabling and Disabling SSD Caching
When you enable SSD caching, the selected virtual drive becomes associated with an existing or future CacheCade
SSD caching virtual drive. When you disable SSD caching, this association is deleted. Follow these steps to enable or
disable SSD caching for a virtual drive.
1.
Highlight Enable/Disable SSD Caching on the popup menu and press Enter.
2.
Highlight Go and press Enter.
The Enable SSD Caching Warning message appears.
3.
Highlight Confirm and press the spacebar to confirm the operation, then highlight Yes and press Enter.
SSD caching is enabled for this virtual drive.
The warning is similar when you disable SSD caching.
5.5.1.7
Securing a Virtual Drive
A Secure Virtual Drive operation enables security on a virtual drive. You can only disable the security by deleting the
virtual drive. Perform these steps to secure a virtual drive.
1.
Highlight Secure Virtual Drive on the popup menu and press Enter.
The Secure Virtual Drive warning appears.
2.
Highlight Confirm and press the spacebar to confirm the operation, then highlight Yes and press Enter.
The virtual drive is secured.
5.5.1.8
Running a Consistency Check
Follow these steps to run a consistency check on the currently selected redundant virtual drive.
1.
Highlight Check Consistency on the popup menu and press Enter.
2.
Highlight Go and press Enter.
The Consistency Check Success dialog appears.
As the message indicates, the consistency check is now running.
3.
Highlight OK and press Enter.
NOTE
After the data is erased, you have the option of keeping the blank
virtual drive, which you can use to store other data, or deleting the
virtual drive completely.
NOTE
The Check Consistency option does not appear on the menu if the
currently selected virtual drive is RAID 0 (nonredundant).
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Chapter 5: The HII Configuration Utility
Managing Virtual Drives
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