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Online and Offline. Use the Offline task to deactivate a disk before removing it. Use the Online task
to reactivate an offline disk.
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Initialize. On some controllers, the Initialize task prepares an array disk for use as a member of a
virtual disk.
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Rebuild. See "Rebuild a Failed Array Disk."
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Cancel Rebuild. Use the Cancel Rebuild task to cancel a rebuild that is in progress.
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Clear Array Disk and Cancel Clear. Use the clear array disk task to erase data residing on an array disk.
Virtual Disk Tasks
The following virtual disk tasks are available when the Virtual Disks object is selected. See the enhanced
Storage Management online help for more information.
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Reconfigure. See "Reconfigure Virtual Disk Wizard."
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Cancel Rebuild. Use the Cancel Rebuild task to cancel a rebuild that is in progress.
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Cancel Reconfigure. Use the Cancel Reconfigure task to cancel a virtual disk reconfiguration that is
in progress.
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Format and Initialize; Slow and Fast Initialize. Use the Format or Initialize; Slow and Fast Initialize
task to erase files and remove the file systems on a virtual disk.
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Cancel Background Initialization. On some controllers, background initialization of redundant
virtual disks begins automatically after the virtual disk is created. Use this task if you need to cancel the
background initialization.
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Restore Dead Segments. Use the Restore Dead Segments task to recover data from a RAID-5 virtual
disk that has been corrupted.
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Delete. Use this task to destroy all data on the virtual disk.
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Assign and Unassign Dedicated Hot Spare. See "Assign a Hot Spare."
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Check Consistency, Cancel Check Consistency, Pause Check Consistency, and Resume Check
Consistency. See "Maintain Integrity of Redundant Virtual Disks."
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Blink and Unblink. The Blink and Unblink tasks blink or unblink the lights on the array disks included
in the virtual disk.
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Rename. Use this task to rename a virtual disk.
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Change Policy. Use this task to change a virtual disk's read, write, or cache policy.
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Split Mirror. Use this task to separate mirrored data originally configured as a RAID 1,
RAID 1-concatenated, or RAID 10 virtual disk.
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Unmirror. Use this task to separate mirrored data and restore one half of the mirror to free space.
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