Viewing And Changing Virtual Drive Properties - Lenovo ThinkServer RD650 User Manual

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March 2014
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Viewing and Changing Virtual Drive Properties

The Ctrl-R Utility shows the properties, policies, and the operations for virtual drives.
To view these items for the currently selected virtual drive and to change some of these settings, perform the
following steps:
1. In the VD Mgmt screen, navigate to a virtual drive, and press the F2 key.
2. Press Enter.
The Virtual Drive Properties dialog appears.
Figure 51 Virtual Drive Properties
The General box shows the virtual drive's RAID level, name, state, size, and strip size.
The Operations box lists any operation (performed on the virtual drive) in progress, along with its progress status
and the time remaining for the operation to be completed.
3. You may change the settings for the fields that are enabled in this dialog.
4. Press OK to save your changes.
5. Press Advanced to view additional virtual drive properties.
The Create Virtual Drive- Advanced dialog appears.
Use this option to view information about the BBU, if the selected controller has a BBU.
Use this option to commission unconfigured good drives or global hotspares as emergency spare
drives.
You can select from the options None, UG (Unconfigured Good), GHS (Global Hotspare), or UG and
GHS (Unconfigured Good and Global Hotspare).
Use this option to commission emergency hot spare drives for predictive failure analysis events.
CAUTION Before you change a virtual drive configuration, back up any data on
the virtual drive that you want to save.
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Chapter 4: Ctrl-R Utility
Viewing and Changing Device Properties